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Why write about your photography? Aren't your pictures supposed to say it all? Ideally, but written cues can offer viewers helpful entry points into your work. If you exhibit your work, artist statements, project statements and biographies are necessities. If you are applying for an artist residency, a grant or a call for entry, writing eloquently will illuminate the intention and process that sparked your imagery. The bottom line is, effective communication elevates your work. In our first session of the course, we explain best practices for starting and maintaining successful writing habits

Join us at the Griffin Museum for a presentation and walk through with photographer Yorgos Efthymiadis, discussing his series The Lighthouse Keepers, part of the exhibition Nuclear Family. © Yorgos EfthymiadisWhenever I travel back to my country, it feels like I come across a shoebox in the back of my childhood bedroom closet, full of memorabilia I didn't know were there. As soon as I open the box, an inner whisper says I will remind you of everything. There is an instant rush of fond memories of the house I grew up in by the sea and of the maze-like city I moved to when I got older. But