Workshops
Learn how to create photographs that go beyond the ordinary and inspire a sense of wonder and contemplation.
Dates:
Aug 26, 2024 - Aug 30, 2024
Levels:
Intermediate,
Advanced,
Workshop Fee: $1395
Workshop Duration: 1-week (Monday-Friday)
Workshop Location: On-campus
Class Size: 10
Join us in exploring the frontiers of creative photography. For five transformative days, we will be your guides as we climb toward the transcendent.
Day one immerses students in a reflective process, reviewing their work, defining ‘transcendent’, and slowing down with purpose. Drawing inspiration from visionaries like Stieglitz and Ghirri to contemporary masters, we set the stage for artistic growth.
Then we embark on an inspirational journey traveling along three paths. Through Intention, you clarify your artistic purpose and visual voice. Emotion follows as you harness techniques to evoke visceral responses from both you and the viewer. Finally, Experiment unleashes your unbridled creativity through photographic play.
Each day unveils a new shooting assignment, intertwining visual storytelling with personal written reflections to document your outcomes.
Students may choose spontaneous subjects inspired by our setting, or expand on personal projects ripe for transcendence.
View this workshop as a ‘retreat’ for creative rejuvenation. Push boundaries. Allow your creative spirits to soar.
On the final day, students will share their body of work from the week displaying their stories in images/words in a gallery-like presentation.
Embark on this immersive journey with Eileen and Olaf and bring your intuition to life.
All images copyright Eileen McCarney Muldoon & Olaf Willoughby.
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Instructor: Olaf Willoughby
Olaf Willoughby is a photographer, writer, researcher and facilitator living in London. His life paths include a career in marketing, where he consults on the use of storytelling to improve business communications, and a passion for photography where he shoots and writes to develop his creativity and fulfill a desire for advocacy. Olaf is the co-founder of The Leica Meet a Facebook/website group that currently nearly 18,000 members. He has been endorsed by the World Wildlife Fund in the distribution of 5,000 ebooks to raise money for environmental causes, and was featured on the International Polar Year website. Over the past several years Olaf has spoken on the art of using storytelling to improve business communications in London, Basel, Amsterdam, Shanghai, Athens and Chicago.
Instructor: Eileen McCarney Muldoon
Eileen is a fine art photographer living and working in Jamestown, RI. Her photographic style has been described as painterly, but she prefers to attribute her style to the gift that photography has given her to see the world with the eyes of an artist. She uses natural light as a means to express emotion. When Eileen is not working on her art, she is teaching photography at local, regional and international workshops. Her work has been exhibited at Newport Art Museum, The Providence Art Club, Mystic Arts Center and numerous galleries throughout New England and New York. Additionally, Eileen has had two books published and is currently working on her third.