Diane
Farris
Photography
and Narrative with Digital Tools – and
Soul
June 15-21
Course
Description:
This
workshop will be a studio in which participants can create their own visual
narratives - picture books, children’s books, image series – using
digital and
traditional means. We will
use the camera, computer, and scanner as well as sketchbooks, artifacts, and
conversation to
bring ideas to life.
Biography:
Diane
is a photographer/writer who works in image series and book forms. Her current
body of work, In the Open: Sandhill Crane Studies, has just been
shown at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville and will be
at Images Gallery in Chicago in November. Her work is in many private and
public collections, including Princeton University, Houston’s Museum
of Fine Arts, the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Jacksonville Art Museum, the
Polaroid Collection, the Florida Atlantic University Computer Center and
the Museum of Contemporary Photography. Diane writes and illustrates books
for children and those who read with them. Her soon–to-be-updated website
is www.dianefarris.com and
has more information.
Supply List for participants to bring from home:
- a sketchbook/notebook (either one you are using or a new one) and whatever you like for writing and sketching: pencils, pen, watercolor…
- your digital camera
- discs or, preferably, a little usb flash drive for transporting:story or series ideas
- related images and writings …and the odds and ends that go with them. For example, I have an idea box with artifacts for a new book that has everything from notes and newspaper clippings to a marble, interesting paper and rumpled fabric, a small pterodactyl, and an Italian bus ticket.
- paper to print on (I like Epson Enhanced Matte and Premium Lustre for the Shakerag Epson 2200 printers)
- music to share that the rest of us might or might not know about.
- read Suzy Gablik’s The Reenchantment of Art if you can before the workshop (the Shakerag store will have copies of this book)