The Constructed Image med CLAIRE ROSEN

THE CONSTRUCTED IMAGE

Foreleser: Claire Rosen
Dato: Jul 17, 2012 - Jul 21, 2012
Sted: SAGA - center for photography / Straumen - Inderøy - Norway
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Photography is an incredible tool that allows us to create narrative stories visually - Claire Rosen.

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
This five day course will cover the elements involved in creating conceptual imagery with a focus on making images that are about something rather than of something. Students will learn about brainstorming, concept development, problem - solving and visual storytelling. We will draw inspiration from examining different styles, fashion trends, other photographer’s interpretations of topics, and students will use this to create their mood boards and develop their own concept. We will cover preproduction and scheduling, how to find a location that fits the concept, finding and working with models, planning the shoot with hair and make-up. We will also cover lighting, and working on set. How to assist your fellow students and how to execute your own concept.

Day 1 will be spent in the classroom looking at presentations of contemporary photographers, learning about working on location, brainstorming concepts and preproduction. On Day 2 students will prepare for their individual shoot concepts, as well as participate in a group conceptual photo shoot. On Day 3 and 4 students will execute their individual shoot concept. Day 5 will be spent editing and critique images from the previous day and wrapping up with a discussion essential business practices.

NORDphotography will supply the models and make-up/ hair team.

ABOUT CLAIRE ROSEN:
Claire Rosen is a photographer and video artist blending a fine art sensibility with commercial work to create whimsical imagery inspired by fairy tales, fables, and other children's stories. Her fashion, fine art and advertising work touch on the bizarre and unusual with the themes of vintage circus, burlesque, magic, curiosities and natural science interwoven throughout the images. Rosen is drawn both to beauty and darkness as it exists in life, and her images explore this duality.

Claire's work has been recognized by Communication Arts Photography Annual, The International Photography Awards, Prix de la Photographie, The Sony World Awards, Artists Wanted: Exposure, The Art Project: W Magazine as well as most recently being included in Forbes 30 under 30 in 2012 for Art & Design. She has been featured in Communication Arts Insights and Fresh Profile, Creative Quarterly Journal, Direct Art, FotoTv, The Montclair Times and Photocine News.

Claire's fine art work is represented by Asymmetrick Arts, Gallery 51, Ken Fulk Inc and Verve Gallery; She has been exhibited widely and her work is included in many public and private collections.

Her client list includes Alex Randall Bespoke Lighting, Alex Young, Bangz Salon & Spa, Cora Pearl Underpinnings, Doubleday Magazine, Jumeriah International, The London Sunday Fashion Times, Mia Magazine, N.E.E.T Magazine, Neiman Marcus at Short Hills, Prevention Magazine, Tatler Magazine, Random House Publishing and Ryan Wilde Millinery.

In addition, Claire lectures and teaches courses around the world in photography through Foundry Workshops, Gulf Photo Plus, International Center for Photography, The New Jersey Visual Arts Center, NORDphotography, Unique University and The Yard School. Claire is sponsored as one of Dynalite's VIP shooters and is a liveBooks Ambassador.

Claire graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2006 with a BFA in photography. She received a liberal arts AA degree from Bard College at Simon's Rock in 2003.

SAGA - CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY:
The workshop with Claire Rosen will take place at NORDphotography’s new workshop center SAGA, located in the middle of Norway close to the small town of Straumen - Inderøy.

Nestled in a quite bay, directly on the waterfront, and surrounded by one of Norway most beautiful cultural landscape, you find SAGA, NORDphotography’s new workshop center. The area is known for its beautiful sceneries, which together with the sea and special light, has inspired artists and authors for hundreds of years. It is a perfect place for a creative center for photographers and we welcome anyone who are looking for a quiet environment where nature, like-minded people, and world-renowned photographers join forces to learn and celebrate the art of photography.

Distance: SAGA is about a 2,5 hour travel distance from Oslo (plane 1 hour, train 1 hour and 15 minutes, car ride 15 minutes), about 3 hours from Stockholm or Copenhagen, and about 12 hours from New York City.

HOW TO GET TO SAGA:
By Plane: The closest airport to SAGA is Trondheim International Airport. From the airport, take the local train, which stops at the airport terminal every second hour (from 7:45 AM – 9:45 PM), towards Steinkjer. You will disembark the train at Røra Station (about a 1 hour and 15 minutes ride from the airport) and NORDphotography’s van will be there to greet you and take you to SAGA.

By train: Your disembark the train at Røra Station and NORDphotography’s van will be there to greet you and take you to SAGA. Travel distance with train from: Oslo 9 hours. Trondheim 2 hours. Bodø 9,5 hours. Storlien (Sweden) 3,5 hours.

By car: Follow E6 to Røra, then RV 755 to Straumen.

WORKSHOP TUITION:
Kr. 8.700,- NOK (inkl. model fee, hair and make-up fee)

To secure a seat on this workshop we ask for a deposit of kr. 3.500,- NOK to be paid to NORDphotography. Shortly after registrating for the workshop you will recive an invoice via e-mail for the deposit to be paid within two weeks, and an invoice for the rest of the tuition, to be paid no later then 1 month before the workshop starts.

ACCOMADATION:
SAGA has a hotel-room section where students and our teachers will stay. We have single, double and triple rooms and each room has its own distinct style, where comfort and a relaxing mood is the common tread. There are single beds in all our rooms. Most participants will have to share rooms. If you are a group traveling together, or you have a preferance when sharing a room, please make a note when registrating for the workshop.

We will start each day with a healthy breakfast, before heading to class, or out shooting. We serve lunch and dinner at SAGA every day (dinner is optional and not included in the accommodation fee, lunch is included). SAGA has a social area where students and teachers are more then welcome to hang out, work on their images, flip through a photo book for inspiration, sit out on the porch and take in the amazing sceneries of landscape and water, or just socialize with their pears. We want to create a homey feel to the center where you can come and go as you like, and where the focus is to breath and just enjoy our time together.

Accomodation in shared room inkluding breakfast and lunch at SAGA: kr. 675,- pr person pr day.

Payment for accomadation is done directly to SAGA, on the first day of arrival.

CANCELATION RULES
For the workshop to run we need a minimum of 7 participants. If we for some reason are not able to reach our minimum number, the workshop will be canceled and you will receive a full refund.

NORDphotography is not responsible for reimbursement of non-refundable airline/ train tickets in the event of a program cancellation. Please check on your workshop status before making travel arrangements.

There wil be a maximum of 10 students on this workshop.

Withdrawal and Refund Policy
Enrollment is limited in our workshops, so once you have been accepted your participation is important to us - we are counting on you to attend.

We do however understand that sometimes plans fall trough and offer the following cancellation policies:

For our NORWAY workshops:
Withdraw more than 60 days before the start of class and we will refund all monies paid, minus a administration fee of NOK 800,-.

Withdraw between 60 days or less before the start of class and we will charge you with the full workshop tuition.

TRAVEL INFORMATION
We ask that you do not book your ticket until we have confirmed that the minimum number of participants have signed up. Travel expenses are each participant's own responsibility. We suggest that you always have traveler's insurance.