A MASTER CLASS med SYLVIA PLACHY

Workshop: FINDING THE THREADS IN YOUR WORK - A MASTER CLASS
Foreleser: Sylvia Plachy
Dato: 24 Juli - 28 Juli 2012
Sted: SAGA - senter for fotografi, Inderøy (Nord-Trøndelag)

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A photograph can stand alone and be rich in meaning, but when you string a number of images together, like lines in a poem or phrases in music - in an essay, show, and especially a book - the pictures become much more than the sum of their parts. Sylvia Plachy

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
This class is for students who have a large number of photographs and who would like to use photographs to tell a story, be it a personal journey or professional assignment leading to a photo essay for a book, magazine, a publication or an exhibit.

Through the camera we are drawn to subjects that move us. We are shaped by our time, culture and background. Our unflinching glass camera-eye protects our vulnerable heart. What we seek is that thrilling instant, when all the elements come together, and we know that we have found our picture. To do that, we must wait, search and be ready to see what speaks to us. It is a negotiation between outside and inside, between the world and the photographer, who we are and what we think and feel leaves a residue in our pictures. How do we find our own inner voice?

While some people start with an idea, something that’s important to them and proceed from there, others start as if in a trance being pulled by visions that occasionally appear out of some collision of light, dark and perhaps a remarkable event, or rise from an ordinary situation and reveal something worth keeping. Finding your picture could be a quiet and meditative experience, or arise from a deep emotional connection. It could be born of compassion, curiosity or a wish for understanding, as well as beauty, energy and even fun. Your pictures, the ones that are really good, contain your perceptions and reactions to life, and reflect who you are.

We will begin by taking a look at work each participant accumulated over some time. We will attempt to discover meanings and themes that reside in each person’s photographs, perhaps like unrealized threads that already exist and can lead into new directions. Through editing and sequencing we’ll look for an inner vision and begin to build a photo essay, a book or a show.

Drawing on over thirty years experience, Sylvia will guide you to examine your personal voice, clarify what type of project you want to pursue, and learn how to best create and sequence your own photo essay.

A MASTER CLASS:
This workshop is a MASTER class, which means we are looking for talent that already has a body of work, and are in need of professional guidance in how to build a strong portfolio, make a cohesive photo essay, sequencing for a photo book, or preparing for an exhibit.

To be considered for this master class you have to submit a portfolio of minimum 10 images, a project description, or an artist statement to post@nordphotography.com.

Images should be 600 pixel (the longest side), resolution 72 dpi, filename: your name and 01, 02, 03, 04.... (ex: elisabethaanes01, elisabethaanes02, elisabethaanes03 )

If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact us at post@nordphotography.com

ABOUT SYLVIA PLACHY
Richard Avedon wrote of Sylvia Plachy: "She makes me laugh and she breaks my heart. She is moral. She is everything a photographer should be".

Sylvia Plachy left her native Hungary with her parents after the 1956 Revolution, and immigrated to the United States in 1958. A photographer since 1964, her portraits and photo essays appear in numerous magazines and are exhibited worldwide. She was a staff photographer at the Village Voice for over 25 years, and is a regular contributor to the New Yorker. Her photographs have also appeared in Grand Street, New York Times Magazine, Fortune, and ArtForum. Her first book, Unguided Tour, published by Aperture, won the 1990 ICP Infinity Award for best publication. Additional books to her credit include Red Light, a book about the sex industry, Signs and Relics, and most recently a personal history of Eastern Europe, Self-Portrait with Cows Going Home.

Plachy's photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the George Eastman House, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art, among many others. She has had solo exhibits in NYC, Chicago, Philadelphia, Budapest, Berlin, Paris, Tokyo, Vancouver. Sylvia is the recipient of the John Simon Memorial Guggenheim Fellowship.

Plachy lives in New York City with her husband and is the mother of Academy Award-winning actor Adrien Brody.

Sylvia Plachy's webside

SAGA - CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY
Our workshop with Sylvia Plachy 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. 7.500,- NOK

To secure a seat on this workshop we ask for a deposit of kr. 2.500,- 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.

We ask that you do not book your ticket until we have confirmed that the minimum number of participants have signed up.

NORDphotography is not responsible for reimbursement of non-refundable airline/ train tickets in the event of a program cancellation. Travel expenses are each participant's own responsibility. We suggest that you always have traveler's insurance.

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.