Create photographs that reflect who you are.
Five-Day Workshop at the Maine Media Workshops & College
July 31 – August 4, 2023. Camden, Maine.
See a slideshow of student work from a previous run of this workshop, and some behind the scenes photos.
This workshop is about going beyond making pretty pictures. It’s about discovering your own voice, so you can make photographs that more clearly reflect who you are – as a photographer and a person. Field trips to make new pictures, compassionate portfolio reviews, directed writing exercises, and expert technical assistance in the digital lab will help you to see your own work in a new way, and develop access to your most valuable photographic tool: intuition.
It’s tempting to believe great photographs come from “out there,” but the pictures that seem to arrive as magical gifts from the photo gods actually come from “in here.” This hands-on workshop uses photography and writing to extract a little bit of the magic that’s always happening inside us – to bring it out in front of us where we can see it, play with it, and turn it into something truly personal.
Say “yes” to making new friends, new images, and working on whatever the next step is for you, technically and metaphorically. This workshop is grownup playtime for photographers. Let’s have fun together enjoying the beauty of mid-coast Maine, and going deeper: deeper into our work, and into the words we use to describe our pictures. Deeper into the pictures themselves, and deeper into the techniques we use to craft them. Join us for this hands-on workshop and learn something new – about photography, and about yourself.
We assemble reality, piece-by-piece, minute-by-minute, inside ourselves. The lens that determines our experience is the lens of our awareness, and this we have the power to refocus and redirect as we wish. – Jean Miele
This course is not for beginners: participants should have a basic working knowledge of Photoshop and/or Lightroom, and be comfortable on Mac computers. Please arrive for class with a digital camera and all accessories (cards, batteries, tripod, etc.), a selection of 20 of your favorite images to share with the group (prints are welcome), a notebook for journaling, lots of (organized) RAW files to work on, and a (Mac-formatted) hard drive to bring your files to the workshop and take new work home.
