Wandering in the Company of Strangers Workshop Series 2010
Instructors: Emilio Bañuelos and Ibarionex Perello
in collaboration with:
Jennifer Ahn, Nancy Ahn, The Photologists, San Jose, CA
Ray Potes, Hamburgereyes, San Francisco, CA
Ibarionex Perello, The Candid Frame, Los Angeles, CA
Black Boots Ink invites you to wander with us on the first annual, traveling, project-based workshop and exhibit introducing you to your neighbor.
The (Sub)Urban Portrait is the focus of the workshop series Wandering in the Company of Strangers. The emphasis of this workshop is on creating an opportunity for people to learn and practice skills that will help them document their own communities. Workshop sessions are designed for practical use with personalized working critiques centering on the work you create and instruction for photographing how people inhabit, use and exist within their communities. It’s often how life is lived, particularly in very public venues, be it a market, a church, a park.
We will discuss ways to use the camera to give voice to a community by approaching people, building relationships, and making insightful images in their natural environment. We will also discuss ethics and responsibilities, light and composition and equipment choices. The purpose of this workshop series is to help you understand the narrative, aesthetic, and emotional aspects of photography.
Each day is divided between classroom instruction, discussions, personal and group critiques and fieldwork. Participants may work in black and white or color c-41 film or digital. Enrollment is open to amateur and professional photographers.
Our vision is to make urban portraits as a means of visual introductions of people from one city to people in different cities. Our goal is to return the portraits of the public, to the public; to make art accessible in comfortable venues by combining the work from each workshop in a book, exhibitions, online, and on the streets and other places where people gather to live.
San Francisco, January 22 -24, 2010
Instructors: Emilio Bañuelos and Ibarionex Perello
Special Guest Presenter: Ray Potes
The first California workshop will be hosted by Hamburgereyes in San Francisco. A public exhibit in the Mission District will include the work from Guadalajara and San Francisco.
enrollment closed
donde son los domingos de colaboracion??
Sounds fun. Drop me a line if you make it to the Southeast US or Caribbean and maybe I’ll be able to join you! -Kyle, Tampa, FL
What a fantastic idea…I hope I can be part of it at some stopover. Good luck!
Looking forward to seeing the February dates.
Just sent my fee in via Paypal for the session in San Francisco.
Wish I had known about this earlier.
I went to medical school in Guadalajara and was always looking for a reason to revisit.
In the future if you return here I would love to go.
Sharyn
I had such an amazing experience at the San Francisco workshop – thank you, thank you, thank you – this was my experience: http://www.theothermartintaylor.com/moveabletype/archives/photo/000854.html
Ditto what Martin said – was a great weekend for me and really enjoyed the experience
Thank you Emilio, Ibarionex, Elena, and Unni!
I had a great time and learned a bunch. Black Boots Ink puts on a unique event, its like no other workshop experience, its a collaborative. This is my third and wont be my last! I hope to have Wanderings come up to Weed,CA next year!!