What exactly is a writing workshop for photographers? Why is it even necessary? Shouldn't photographers be communicating their ideas through images?
Writing about our photographs is not equivalent to explaining them away in words. This would be impossible. Writing, however, is an essential part of a photographer's practice, as it helps us to delineate the contours of a project and produce the texts necessary to get our work out into the world. Describing our work and creative process in words not only opens a door for our audience to more deeply understand our photographic intentions, it is a way to reach out to our communities in order to secure the resources we need to realize our creative vision. Most importantly, writing is a part of photographic authorship and owning not only our images, but also our ideas.
So join us for this workshop! It will be a small gathering of like-minded colleagues coming together to put words to their photographs; coffee percolating, sleeves rolled up, photos on the wall, keyboards at the ready.
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