THE NARRATIVE PORTRAIT med AMY ARBUS

Foreleser: Amy Arbus
Dato: 31 Juli - 4 Aug. 2012
Sted: SAGA - center for photography - Norway
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A good picture sets the scene, introduces the characters, evokes a mood, and shows the action with all of its great or terrible consequences. It has all the drama of life. Like a single frame of a movie, a narrative portrait raises more questions than it answers - Amy Arbus

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
This is a workshop for photographers wanting to take their portraits to a new level. A narrative portrait is a collection of stories that document the life of an individual. It can be a single frame or a sequence of images, but the focus is to tell a story about the person being photographed. The choice of what stories to tell and how best to tell them reflects the desires of the storyteller, in our case the photographer.

Amy will cover story ideas and how to get them, approaching people, involving them in the process and helping them feel at ease. She will discuss the techniques of fashion, lifestyle, photojournalism and portraiture. There will be slide presentations and critiques. Arbus will talk about editing, sequencing and presentation.

Each student will make a short series of photographs about someone from the area. Participants will be given time to do their own research and find local people of interest that they want to photograph. NORDphotography will assist in getting in contact with possible subjects, and also give the class a list of willing subjects with some background information to get ideas going.

ABOUT AMY ARBUS:
Her photographs have appeared in over one hundred periodicals around the world, including New York Magazine, Bloomberg News, People, Dazed and Confused and The New York Times Magazine. She teaches portraiture at the International Center of Photography, Maine Media Workshops, The Fine Arts Work Center, and now NORDphotography. Amy Arbus, daughter of Diane Arbus, is a highly acclaimed photographer, the author of several photo-books, with over 21 solo exhibits worldwide. She has four books under her belt, including the award winning On the Street 1980-1990 and The Inconvenience of Being Born. The New Yorker called her most recent, The Fourth Wall, her masterpiece. Amy Arbus is represented by Anthropy Arts and The Amador Gallery in New York, and The Schoolhouse Gallery in Massachusetts. Her photographs are a part of the collection of The New York Public Library and The Museum of Modern Art in New York. For more information, please visit: www.amyarbus.com

SAGA - CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY:
The workshop with Amy Arbus 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.

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. 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.