Workshops
Learn how to create transcendent photographs that go beyond the ordinary and inspire a sense of wonder, awe and contemplation.
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Transcendent means, “going beyond or exceeding ordinary limits.” And that’s exactly what our workshop aims to do for our students.
The first day is spent working with students to review their work and their artistic goals, define the word ‘transcendent’, and start slowing down with purpose. We will show examples from the works of artists ranging from Stieglitz and Ghirri to modern-day photographers.
The concept of creating transcendent work is then divided into three areas: Intention, Emotion, and Experiment. Each of these is the subject of a separate day’s shooting assignment accompanied by writing students’ aims and results.
Attendees are free to choose an impromptu theme perhaps based on our location or expand upon an existing personal project. The idea is to view the workshop as a ‘retreat’ allowing creative spirits to soar unhindered.
On the final day, students will share their body of work from the week telling their stories in images and words to be displayed in a gallery-like presentation with the goal of bringing their intuition to life and transmitting their sentiments to the viewer.
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.