MIRRORWORK | YOU AND PHOTOGRAPHY

This workshop considers the notion of understanding yourself through your photography and vice versa, with the premise that YOU  are the most important thing about your work. And that when we develop our understanding of this relationship, our photographic work is strengthened. 

We will explore why photography is your medium of your choice, how to use it as a tool for storytelling, how to read photographs and build meaning through looking and feeling. Additionally, we will EXPLORE how to create new images through intuitive processes and “working backwards” to build meaning and understand your work and the work of others. 

Over the course of five weeks participants will work in an intimate environment to create, solidify, or re-envision a small body of work that will be presented in a group critique on the last day. Participants are encouraged to bring a selection of photographs that they want to make sense of, strengthen, and make new photographs. This workshop will be a reflective exercise in making, selecting, editing, arranging, understanding, and committing to an iteration of your work in a short amount of time. Final work can be presented as prints, a zine, etc. 

This workshop is ideal for people who:

Are feeling stuck.                                                                                                                                                       Want to gain a deeper meaning of themselves/photographs.                                                                                 Have unresolved work/ body of work.                                                                                                                           Want to make something new.                                                                                                                                     Want to look at your work in a new way.

Mirrorwork runs for 5 weeks and will meet on Saturdays, 2 - 4 PM.

January 10th // Workshop Intro

January 17th // Participant Intro

January 24th //  Collaborative Looking

January 31st // Collaborative Making

February 7th // Critique

Nydia Blas is a visual artist who grew up in Ithaca, New York and currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia.

She holds a B.S. from Ithaca College and received her M.F.A. from Syracuse University in the College of Visual and Performing Arts. She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Visual Culture at Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia. She has taught courses for the High Museum of Art, Anderson Ranch, Image Text MFA program at Cornell University, and Syracuse University in the Department of Transmedia. She has completed artist residencies at Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts and The Center for Photography at Woodstock. Her work has been commissioned by The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Airbnb, Harper’s Bazaar, and more.