October 22-24, 2010 | Honolulu, Hawaii

Instructors: Emilio Bañuelos and Elena Carrasco

The emphasis of this workshop is on learning and practicing skills that help photographers document their own communities. Workshop sessions are designed for practical use with personalized working critiques centering on the work created and instruction for making insightful, story-telling images in natural environments. This session examines the narrative, aesthetic, and emotional aspects of photography.

Each day is divided between classroom instruction, discussions, personal and group critiques, and fieldwork. Discussion includes ethics and responsibilities, light and composition, and equipment choices. Participants should be prepared to work in digital format. Enrollment is open to amateur and professional photographers.

Emilio Bañuelos has worked as an editorial photographer and consultant for newspapers in Mexico, Panama and the US. His documentary work earned him fellowships from the Poynter Institute, the Marty Forscher Fellowship for Humanistic Photography and an award from EnFoco Inc. In the San Francisco bay area, Emilio teaches documentary photography for the Academy of Art University, and has conducted workshops for the University of California Santa Cruz-Extension and the University of Coahuila and internationally as the co-founder of Black Boots Ink. www.embafoto.com

Elena Carrasco is the co-founder of Black Boots Ink. Her work has been exhibited throughout Northern California including the San Jose Museum of Art and the Museo Casa Taller Jose Clemente Orozco in Mexico. As an educator, Elena has worked as an instructor and program coordinator for the San Jose Museum of Art and Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana and has conducted national and international workshops with Black Boots Ink. www.elenacarrasco.com

June 5 – 12, 2010 | Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico

Instructors: Emilio Bañuelos | Ibarionex Perello

The International Artist Collaborative 2010 will be working in Guadalajara, the cultural center of western Mexico, the village of  Mazamitla, selected as a Pueblo Magico and visiting the country’s largest fresh water lake in Chapala, Jalisco.

Workshop sessions are designed for practical use centering on the work you create and focused on developing your personal vision. The workshop is a unique combination of one-on-one critiques with Emilio Bañuelos and Ibarionex Perello, classroom instruction, group discussions, independent fieldwork and presentations by local photographers specializing in Fashion, Music, Performance, Fine Art, and Publishing.

Many photographers of all levels have participated in this successful, seven-day intensive workshop multiple times. In order to make art accessible and return the images of the public to the public, the International Artist Collaborative culminates with a public art distribution project in Guadalajara’s Tianguis Cultural, a printed publication, and publication at www.blackbootsink.com.

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hope to see you this fall in San Francisco for Wandering in the Company of Strangers 2!

Wandering in the Company of Strangers Workshop Series 2010
Instructor: Emilio Bañuelos

Black Boots Ink invites you to our final stop in our 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. .

The purpose of this workshop series is to help you understand the narrative, aesthetic, and emotional aspects of photography.

Guadalajara, 26 – 28 february, 2010
Instructor: Emilio Bañuelos

We will conclude the project in February in Guadalajara, Mexico .

An edit of the final images will also be published as a magazine and online www.blackbootsink.com as Wandering in the Company of Strangers.

Any questions please contact us blackbootsink@gmail.com

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Wandering in the Company of Strangers Workshop Series 2010
Instructors: Emilio Bañuelos and Ibarionex Perello

Black Boots Ink invites you to jon  us in Los Angeles to collaborate on a 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.

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.

Los Angeles, January 29 – 31, 2010
Instructors: Emilio Bañuelos and Ibarionex Perello

The Candid Frame will host the final California workshop. A public exhibition will include the portraits from Guadalajara, San Francisco, and Los Angeles.

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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.

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August 6-12, 2008

Instructors: Emilio Bañuelos | Jorge Barragán | Elena Carrasco | Sergio Garibay | Kija Lucas | Rika Noda | John Rickard

IAC PARTICIPANTS 2008
Antonio Cardenas, Guadalajara | Alexcia DeVásquez, San Francisco | Gina Esposito, San Francisco | Noemi Flores-Zepeda, Guadalajara | James Gilmore, Mount Shasta | Jorge Luis Gomez, Guadalajara | Aimee Guymon, Berkeley | Carl Mogerley, San Francisco | Alfonso Nafarrate, Guadalajara | Ibarionex Perello, Altadena | Unni Raveendranathen, San Francisco | Theo Slavin, San Francisco | Linda Vazquez, Guadalajara

Course Description

Working in collaboration with La Caja Mágica Radio, the University of Guadalajara’s Casa Escorza, and the Noda Rickard Center for Photographic Arts and Southern Exposure the emphasis of the IAC 2008 is on making images that show relationships between people and their environment. Our goal is to work with a sincere, unobtrusive, natural approach to portray our subjects as individuals rather than generic types – combining people, place, time and chance to make compelling, story-telling images.

Each day is divided between morning classroom instruction, informal discussions, private and group critiques and fieldwork. We will be working in downtown Guadalajara, visiting the Basilica of Our Lady of Zapopan and Tlaquepaque, Jalisco. Workshop sessions are designed for practical use with work sessions focused on developing your personal vision, and editing images into a coherent visual narrative.

The seven-day workshop culminates with exhibitions at Casa Escorza in Guadalajara, Mexico The Rostel Gallery in Dunsmuir, CA, Empire Seven Studios in San Jose, CA, Studio 17 in Oakland, CA, The Ranch in San Francisco, CA and with Pacific Art Collective, a publication of the final images and publication in blackbootsink.com.

Descripción Del Curso
Trabajando en colaboración con La Caja Mágica Radio, la Universidad de Guadalajara-Casa Escorza, y el Noda Rickard Center for Photographic Arts, y Southern Exposure el énfasis del taller Colaboración Internacional de Artistas está en la creación de las imágenes que demuestran relaciones entre la gente y su ambiente. Aprenderá a utilizar su cámara para la fotografía de la gente, y los paisajes mientras que aprende sobre la narrativa visual y edición de fotos. Las sesiones del taller se diseñan para el uso práctico con críticas y instrucción personalizada para tomar fotos diariamente.

Este curso-taller está dirigido a quienes entienden el viaje no como una huída, sino como un modo de conocerse a sí mismo; a quienes creen que a viajar se aprende, como se aprende a leer, a amar, a morir, a fotografiar. El destino, o los recursos que cada uno tiene para alcanzarlo, no es lo importante, lo que cuenta es la disposición, la Mirada de aproximación al otro, al mundo que está fuera de nosotros, da igual su proximidad o lejanía.

Los talleres de la mañana tomaran lugar en Casa Escorza. Las tardes serán reservadas para visitar las ciudades vecinas de Guadalajara. Viajaremos en autobús para visitar la Basilica de Zapopan, artesanos en Tlaquepaque, donde tendrámos tiempo para tomar fotografías.

El taller concluirá el martes 12 de agosto con una exposición colectiva en Casa Escorza en Guadalajara, Mexico The Rostel Gallery en Dunsmuir, CA, Studio 17 en Oakland, CA, The Ranch en San Francisco, CA y con Pacific Art Collective, y publicación en blackbootsink.com.

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IAC 2008 | Landscape as Portrait: Mt. Shasta | Workshop Mexico 2007

Workshop No. Two: Mt. Shasta

BBI & NRCPA | Workshop The Visual Narrative and Landscape as Portrait
Instructors: Emilio Bañuelos | Elena Carrasco | Tim Gonzalez-Mena | Kija Lucas | Rika Noda | John Rickard
April 18- 20, 2008

WORKSHOP NO. TWO: MT. SHASTA PARTICIPANTS:
Chi Kwong Chow, San Francisco | Alexcia DeVásquez, San Francisco | Rami Hyun, San Francisco | Michele Kagele, Pleasanton | Meghan McKay, Saratoga | Afton Moman, Lafayette | Cristina Martinez-Canton, Davis | Craig Neilson, Mt. Shasta | Victor Prieto, San Francisco | Theo Slavin, San Francisco | Colleen Virgilio, Oak Run

In collaboration with the Noda Rickard Center for Photographic Arts and Earth Day as inspiration, Workshop No. Two is designed to help students maximize their understanding of the landscape as a portrait of the place. We will also discuss the visual narrative, editing and presenting your work to galleries.

The resulting images were published in Issue No. Four and exhibited at the Rostel Gallery, in Dunsmuir, CA.

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Black Boots Ink | Workshop Mexico
June 17-23, 2007
Instructor/Photographer: Emilio Bañuelos

WORKSHOP MEXICO 2007 PARTICIPANTS
Isrohan Alvarez, Zapopan | Elena Carrasco, San Francisco | Ivan Cruz, Guadalajara | Alexcia DeVásquez, San Francisco | Gustavo Espino, Zapopan | Eric Fullmer, San Francisco | Perla Gomez, Guadalajara | Lydia Gonzales, Bakersfield | Tim Gonzalez-Mena, Oakland | Kelly Koehler, San Francisco | Kija Lucas, San Francisco | Foppé Mallory, Pinole | Cristina Martinez-Canton, San Jose | Cecilia Monroy, Chiapas | Colt Peterson, Alamo | Genaro Ramírez, Zapopan | Jorge Roa, Zapopan | Jorge Romero, Guadalajara | Diana Sánchez, Oakland

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Black Boots Ink is about the curiosity that makes you walk into a new situation. It is about wandering in the company of strangers, about stopping, walking, working, protesting, progressing–it is about all of us.

The first Black Boots Ink Workshop takes place in Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, with photographer Emilio Bañuelos. The seven-day workshop culminates with a public exhibition of the final images and a selection of the images will be considered for publication in blackbootsink.com.

Workshop Mexico, participants will have the opportunity to make images that show relationships between people and their environment.You will learn to photograph people and landscapes while creating a visual narrative. Workshop sessions are designed for practical use with instruction for daily shooting, personalized working critiques and editing.

Morning workshops will be held at Instituto Cultural Cabañas a cultural center designed by Manuel Tolsá in 1810. The Instituto’s106 rooms and 23 flower-filled patios house art exhibitions and the main chapel displays 57 murals by José Clemente Orozco from1938-39, including The Man of Fire.

Afternoons will be set aside for daily trips to visit Guadalajara’s neighboring towns. We will travel by bus to visit the Basilica de Zapopan, which dates back to 1730, the Zona Rosa, and the village of Tapalpa, Jalisco, where you will have time to make photographs and learn about contemporary Mexico.

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IAC 2008 | Landscape as Portrait: Mt. Shasta | Workshop Mexico 2007