This is an intensive editing class for those who want to use photographs to tell a story, be it a personal journey or professional assignment leading to a photo essay for a book, magazine, or publication.
Drawing on over thirty years experience, Sylvia will guide you to examine your personal voice, clarify what type of project you want to pursue, and learn how to best create and sequence your own photo essay. A photograph can stand alone and be rich in meaning, but when you string a number of images together, like lines in a poem or phrases in music - in an essay, show, and especially a book - the pictures become much more than the sum of their parts.
Over the course of our two days together, we will share portfolios and learn how to edit, sequence, and paste our pictures for essays, books or shows. We will examine format, size, layout, and title, as well as whether words or other visuals are needed, and leave with a clearer vision.
Who should attend: This class is open to all photographers who are currently working on a project, are interested in learning how to best edit their work, and/or those who are eager to begin a narrative from an existing body of work.
What to bring:
• 20-30 images from a cohesive body of work or project to sequence,
• 1-2 books you consider a successful model, as well as any writing or other visual hints that you may wish to
include in your layout,
• many additional small proof prints and contacts to chose from.
If there is time at the end please bring ideas for a title.
Dates: Friday & Saturday June 5-6 2009, 9am-4pm each day.
Class size limit: 12 students.
To register, please print and fill out the pdf registration form and fax it to (504) 522.8109, or mail it to:
The New Orleans Photography Workshops
1927 Sophie Wright Place,
New Orleans, LA 70130, USA
Receipt of your registration will be acknowledged within 24 hours.
| Tuition: | $350 or $300 for members of the New Orleans Photo Alliance |
Deposit: A non-refundable deposit of $100 is due with the application.
Biography:
Sylvia Plachy was a staff photographer for the Village Voice for over 25 years. Her photographs have also appeared in the New Yorker,
Grand Street, New York Times Magazine, Fortune, and ArtForum.
Her first book, Unguided Tour, published by Aperture,
won the 1990 ICP Infinity Award for best publication. Additional books to her credit include Red Light, a book about the sex industry,
Signs and Relics, and most recently a personal history of Eastern Europe, Self-Portrait with Cows Going Home.
Plachy's photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the
George Eastman House, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, among many others. She has had solo exhibits in NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia,
Budapest, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, Vancouver. Sylvia is the recipient of the John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship.
Born in Budapest, Plachy currently lives and works in NYC.
Richard Avedon wrote of Sylvia Plachy: "She makes me laugh and she breaks my heart. She is moral. She is everything a photographer should be".
