Creativity and the Photographer II

Cultivate real creative awareness.

Sean Kernan

If you’ve worked with Sean before, and you want to take that work further and deeper, here is an advanced study group that will push your creative awareness to the next level. Sean has spent years working on a series of exercises that explore everything we see and do, from our entry into the creative state up to the moment we click. This workshop is an immersion in this practice. 

You will use refinements and extensions of the seeing exercises, movement work, written observations, and the pushout photographic exercises that Sean is known for.

Truly creative photography comes from going beyond what you know, not perfecting it. If you understand that to be true, here’s your chance to jump. 

(There is not an absolute requirement that you have taken Creativity I. Others can be admitted after a conversation with Sean.)

 

“Take Sean Kernan's class: if you are open to it you will be enriched.  It's really not about photography. It's about receptiveness, understanding, expansion and challenge. Take Sean Kernan's class if you are not open to it and you will be shaken up, irritated, annoyed and challenged.  In either case, it will be time well spent and changes in you will be made.  After all isn't that what we're going for?”  — Jay Maisel



Instructors

Sean Kernan

Sean Kernan is a photographer, writer, and teacher who came to photography from theater. He is the author of two monographs, The Secret Books (with Jorge Luis Borges) and Among Trees.

He has exhibited at galleries and museums accross the US and the world,  including: Centre Regional de la Photographie, Duchy, France; Biblioteca Alexandrina, Egypt; Photosynkiria, Thessaloniki, Greece; William Benton Museum; Museo de la Ciudad, Queretaro, Mexico; Friends of Photography (San Francisco); Wesleyan University, Connecticut; Whitney Museum (New York), and has created media performance pieces at MASS MoCA, Guggenheim Projects in New York, and Poftland Performing Arts Festival. He is currently working on a theater/dance/multimedia piece, The Drowned Man.

He has produced and directed two documentaries, The Kampala Boxing Club, about boxing in Africa, and Crow Stories, about the Crow Tribe of Montana, and contributed the concept for the CBS film, To America, and served as Associate Producer.

His photos have been published in the New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian, New York, Harpers, Bloomberg, Communication Arts, Graphis, Polyrama (Switzerland), Photo World (China), as well as magazines in Iran, Greece, Italy, and Switzerland, and has done a wide range of advertising work for clients such as AT&T, Amex, GE, Pratt & Whitney, Dow Jones, Harvard,  and Knoll,

He has taught and lectured at the New School/Parsons, Art Center (Pasadena), Yale Medical School, International Center for Photography, University of Texas, Wesleyan University, and has won numerous awards, most recently from the Center in Santa Fe for teaching, as well as a Doctorate  (HC) from Art Center in Pasadena. He writes and lectures about creativity, the arts and commerce, with articles in Communication Arts, Graphis, and Lenswork, among others.