Photography Workshop with Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb

Aperture is now offering another chance to join Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb in a weekend photography workshop at Aperture Gallery and Bookstore.

Do you know where you’re going next with your photography–—or where it’s taking you? This intensive weekend workshop will help photographers begin to understand their own distinct way of seeing the world. It will also help photographers figure out their next step photographically–—from deepening their own unique vision to the process of discovering and making a long-term project that they’re passionate about, as well as the process of how long-term projects evolve into books and exhibitions. A workshop for serious amateurs and professionals alike, it will taught by Alex and Rebecca, a creative team who often edit projects and books together –—including their joint book and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exhibition, Violet Isle: A Duet of Photographs from Cuba, Alex’s recent Aperture book, The Suffering of Light, and Rebecca’s upcoming third book, My Dakota.

Included in the workshop will be an editing exercise, as well as an optional photography assignment and long-term project review.

NOTE: This workshop is for photographers who collaborate with the world, not for those who dramatically alter their photographs digitally.

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:

Friday evening, March 23–Sunday afternoon, March 25, 2012

Friday, March 23, 2012: 7:00–8:30 pm: Slide show and Q&A with the artists.

Saturday and Sunday, March 24 and 25, 2012: 10 am–6:00 pm: Weekend Workshop

For full-time students and Aperture members, this workshop is offered at the discounted price of $450. Please email Anne Lewis at alewis@aperture.org to reserve at this special rate.

Class size is limited to 18.

MORE ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:

Through group portfolio reviews, discussions, presentations, and an editing exercise, this two-day intensive workshop will help photographers begin to understand their own distinct way of seeing the world.

DETAILED SCHEDULE:

Friday, 7:00–8:30 pm
Workshop welcome, reception, and slideshow with Alex and Rebecca followed by Q&A

Saturday 10:00–6:00 pm
Group portfolio review (everyone brings 30-40 small work prints, NOT digital files). Afternoon session will include presentations and an editing exercise.

Sunday, 10:00–6:00 pm
Morning: Group edit of the photography assignment, presentations

Afternoon: Presentations and photo project reviews

THE WORKSHOP TEACHERS:

Alex Webb is best known for his vibrant and complex color work, especially from Latin America and the Caribbean. He has published nine books, including Istanbul: City of a Hundred Names, and his most recent, The Suffering of Light: Thirty Years of Photographs.  Alex has exhibited at museums worldwide, including the Whitney Museum of American Art; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. His work is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. Alex became a full member of Magnum Photos in 1979. His work has appeared in National Geographic, the New York Times Magazine, Geo, and other magazines. He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007 for continuing working in Cuba, and the Premio Internacional de Fotografia Alcobendas in 2009.

For the past decade, Rebecca Norris Webb has been exploring the complicated relationship between people and the natural world. Originally a poet, she has shown her photographic work internationally, including at the George Eastman House Museum and Ricco Maresca Gallery, New York. Her first book, The Glass Between Us, was published in 2006, and her second book, Violet Isle: A Duet of Photographs from Cuba (with Alex Webb), was published in November 2009. Her photographs are in the collections of the George Eastman House Museum; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the Provincetown Art Association and Museum. Her third book, My Dakota, which interweaves her spare text and lyrical photographs, will be published in May 2012 by Radius Books, and exhibited at the Dahl Arts Center in Rapid City, South Dakota; and the North Dakota Museum Rapid City, South Dakota; and the North Dakota Museum of Art in Grand Forks.

Alex and Rebecca’s recent joint exhibition of their Cuba photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will travel to the Southeast Museum of Photography in Daytona, Florida in 2013, and then to other venues. The couple is currently collaborating on a project in the U.S.

>Visit Alex’s and Rebecca’s website

>Visit Alex’s and Rebecca’s "Two Looks" blog