Workshops

Photography Workshops and Presentations from Davis Orton Gallery

Registration is closed for the workshops below.  The Gallery will offer workshops again in Spring, 2012.

The Davis Orton Gallery introduces a new series of workshops for photographers and photo-based artists.  Each course includes presentations of historic and contemporary photographers and  is designed to encourage growth in your work, no matter what your level of experience.

 Self-Publishing Your Photobook
 The Lure of the Street
Close to Home – Photographing the Family

Instructor: Karen Davis

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Workshop:
Self-Publishing Your Photobook Workshop
Location: Hudson Opera House
Dates/Time: Four sessions, Sundays, October 30 – November 20, 1-3 pm
Fee: $130
Maximum Size: 15

To Register: Contact Joe Herwick, Hudson Opera House

Prerequisites: Familiarity with the web, access to a computer and the web, experience in basic photo editing and image sizing using programs such as Photoshop Elements, an existing collection of images (digital or print – with access to a scanner or scanner service for print images.)

Are you a visual artist, craftsperson, photo hobbyist or keeper of family photographs? Are you a camera-carrying traveler with a box or computer drive full of photos? Do you want to turn your collection of images into a beautiful, professional looking book as another way to show and share—besides the computer screen or shoebox?

In this class we’ll review several online options (e.g., blurb™, iphoto, lulu™, magworld), for self-publishing photobooks, and consider the strengths, weaknesses, and cost of each. Each participant will work with at least one of those options to prepare a book.  We’ll discuss and practice the fine art of editing and sequencing images and  basic concepts of book design such as structure, dimensions, layout, pacing, typography, and the use of color. By the end of the class you will have created at least one self-published photobook.

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Workshop: The Lure of the Street
Location: Davis Orton Gallery, 114 Warren Street
Hudson NY 12534
Dates/Time: Eight sessions, Thursday evenings:
September 29 to November 17, 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Fee: $225
Maximum Size: 8

To Register: WORKSHOP REGISTRATION

Are you a photographer drawn to the visual possibilities of the street? Are you attracted to the people? the places? found objects? In this workshop students will explore the broad range of photographic approaches that are associated with the term “street photography.”

The workshop includes presentations of the work of past and contemporary masters such as Henri Cartier Bresson, Robert Frank, Garry Winogrand, Helen Levitt, Roy Decarava, Alex and Rebecca Webb, Philip Lorca diCorcia and many others; supportive critiques, and class assignments designed to expand your “photographic language.”   Cameras using film or digital media – SLRs, plastic cameras, point and shoot and cell phones are all welcome.   Assignments will culminate with a project involving an album, digital slide show, and/or set of prints.

Prerequisites: Appropriate for photographers of every level who have some familiarity with their camera; experience with basic photo correction and image sizing and printing.

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Workshop:
Close to Home – Photographing the Family
Location: Davis Orton Gallery
114 Warren Street,
Hudson NY 12534
Dates/Time:
Eight sessions, Thursday evenings:
September 29 to November 17
6:30 – 8:30 pm
Fee: $225
Maximum Size: 8

To Register: WORKSHOP REGISTRATION

Do you want to discover the creative possibilities of making family (yours or others) photographs for personal expression? Are you interested in this topic for its documentary and fine arts possibilities?  Through class assignments and presentations of the work of past and contemporary artists such as Emmett Gowen, Harry Callahan, Shelby Lee Adams, Tina Barney, Judith Black, Thomas Struth, Elinor Carucci and many others, students will explore fine arts, documentary, and vernacular family photography. In this workshop students will explore a range of photographic approaches to photographing the family.

You will learn how the portrait, interiors, still life, and landscape genres can be employed in photographing the family. Appropriate for photographers of every level; composition and technical issues will be reviewed. Supportive critiques, and class assignments designed to expand your “photographic language” will culminate with a project involving an album/book, digital slide show, website presentation or exhibition prints.

Prerequisites: Appropriate for photographers of every level who have some familiarity with their camera; experience with basic photo correction and image sizing and printing.

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Instructor Bios

Karen Davis is a photographer, book artist, and teacher. Her work is featured at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Houghton Rare Books Library, Harvard University, the Drawing Project at Carroll and Sons Gallery, Boston MA and in corporate and private collections. Recent exhibitions include Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA; Bromfield Gallery, Boston; Lishui International Photography Festival, Lishui China. She was the 2009 recipient of the Center for Photography at Woodstock’s Artist Fellowship Award and is a NYFA MARK 2011 artist.

Karen has taught photo-based courses in the Boston/Cambridge area at Radcliffe Seminars, Lesley University’s Lesley Seminars and Art Institute of Boston, Tufts University’s Experimental College and Suffolk University’s New England School of Art and Design.  She presently teaches at the Griffin Museum of Photography and the Davis Orton Gallery,  Hudson NY, where she is also co-director.  Her personal work can be viewed at http://www.yesthatkarendavis.com.

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