PHOTO BREAK 2012
Ottlie Short / Beekeepers seriesWorkshop Details
Photo Break 2012
5 days
Monday March 19 - Friday March 23, 2012
2 Sessions:
Ages - 8-12 years old / 9:30am - 12:30pm
Ages - 13-16 years old / 1:30pm - 4:30pm
Location - Lúz Studio, 1844 Oak Bay Ave.
*open to all abilities, limited to 10 students per session.
Fee - $195.00
*Materials fee $20.00
This wonderful new four-day program introduces kids to the exciting world of image making through a hands-on experience that is safe, fun, and creatively enriching. Without a computer in sight we take them on a visual journey, from scavenger hunts to pinhole cameras, that celebrates their way of seeing the world and provides an opportunity to discover the true wonder of watching an image form on paper. We'll throw in a little bit about bookmaking so that they have a place to make their notes and keep their projects as they learn about the world of photography.
Day 1. Photo Scanvenger Hunt - Everyone will head out with a film camera that we provide in hand, to search & shoot through a list that will get them really seeing their world with fresh eyes while developing a stronger sense of composition, visual awareness and playful experimentation. The students will then watch as we process their roll, in our darkroom - magic!
Day 2. Book Making - Students will learn the basics of bookmaking while creating a journal in which they can keep their 'field notes'. Every student will make at least one soft cover book to store photos, write notes and show off their binding skills.
Day 3. Photograms - Students will create images with this cameraless process in which found objects around the gallery (or the student's favourite item from home) are placed directly on photographic paper and exposed to light, creating a negative image. This traditional first step in learning photography develops a keen sense of composition, image structure and offers that magical first experience of watching an image form on the paper, all in a very hands-on environment.
Day 4. Make Your Own Pinhole Camera - Making your own camera is one of the best ways to really connect with the process of image making and each child will have the opportunity to do just this by making their own pinhole camera, from everyday objects such as juice boxes or empty matchboxes. Really cool! And we're working on making a large-format, class-made pinhole camera that we can use to take group portraits and other cool stuff.
** We've added one more day, to the program - from the feedback we recieved, it was throught that the kids/teens would enjoy a curatorial day (plus it would be great to have a few extra hands to set up the exhibition) **
Day 5. Curatorial Day - Students will come in to help get the gallery ready for the Celebration of the Arts Reception to be held on Saturday March-24 for family and friends. Everyone will help make curatorial decisions, learn how to mount & hang work, and all the other little details that go into hanging an exhibition. *Timing to be determinded but we estimate this day to run from 10am to 2pm.*
For a bit of inspiration on pinhole cameras - Check out this fun video demonstration of how to make a matchbox pinhole camera here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=espROi9g2pg
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Gallery Reception :: Celebration of the Arts
At the end of our two week Spring Break program, all students are invited partcipate in a collective gallery exhibition and open house featuring so that family & friends can enjoy an opportunity so see all the wonderful projects created in the workshops! Mark Sat March-24 on your calendar, more details to follow!
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Each session will have two instructors and a teaching assistant to work with the kids & teens.
INSTRUCTOR | Liz Rubincam is a Toronto-born artist and educator who until recently was based in New York City. She is now happy to embrace a slower pace of life in Victoria with her husband and young son. She is a graduate of Ryerson University’s photography program and also studied documentary and photojournalism at the International Center of Photography in New York. Her images have been published in The New York Times, Time Magazine and Marie Claire Magazine and she is a contributing photographer to Getty Images. In addition to photography, Liz has been an avid bookbinder and collage artist for the past ten years.
INSTRUCTOR | Ottlie Short is an emerging photographer with a deep curiosity for the world of images. She is a student in the University of Victoria’s Visual Arts Program and practices analog photography using conventional and historical processes.
Inspired by boxes of photographs and cameras left to her by her father, her work focuses on experiencing life through the record of photographs. She collects orphaned photographs and cameras and can often be found riding her motorcycle or cuddling a cat.
She keeps a blog at www.anotherwayoftelling.tumblr.com
INSTRUCTOR | Emmy McMillan Emmy McMillan is a full-time professional photographer in Victoria BC. Her first camera was a blue plastic Kodak with disposable single use flash and 35mm film. Her favourite cameras now is her Voigtlander Vitessa range finder and her Canon 5D DSLR. Emmy and her husband Aaron have been portrait and wedding photographers with their company EA Photography since 2007 and has had her work featured in international online publications. When Emmy is not using her camera she volunteers with the adaptive recreation program at Power To Be Adventure Therapy working with children with autism in experiential education and adventure therapy. Photography with children has long been an interest for her as photographic career started with her first camera and she is excited to share this art form as an instructor in the children's photography program.
INSTRUCTOR | Quinton Gordon is an award winning photographer, educator, publisher and multimedia producer. Since 1990 he has focused his photographic work on portrait, fine art, and social documentary. His images have been featured in national and international publications including Canadian Geographic, Explore, Outside, and National Geographic Adventure, as well as in projects for corporate, government, aboriginal and non-governmental clients.
Quinton holds degrees in Art History, Photographic Arts, and Arts education. From 1996 through 1999 he taught in the Photography Department at Massey University's School of Design, in Wellington, New Zealand. He is a contributing photographer to PhotoSensetive, a non-profit collective of professional Canadian photographers working to raise awareness of international social issues. Quinton is the founder and co-owner of Lúz Gallery | for the Photographic Arts, you can also find him teaching & lecturing throughout North America, through Leica Akademie.
Questions on the workshop, send us an email; workshops@luzgallery.com