Tim Davis: About About

Tim Davis, The Collector, 2015

Join visual artist, poet, and photographer Tim Davis for this two-day workshop, About About, which is intended to help photographic artists understand, discuss, conceptualize, and write about their work. Photography has become so ubiquitous, and digital culture offers such easy receptacles for pictures, but it also allows artists to make work without thinking through what it really amounts to. This workshop is designed to help photographers craft their work into a meaningful project—whether a publication or an exhibition—that makes sense for their inner directives. While making photographs is a way to understand yourself, developing those photographs into a successful project is a way to communicate how you see the world.

 

The first day will be a series of discussions, as each participant gives a short presentation of his or her work, either in print or digital form. Davis will guide a critical analysis of each participant’s project, with an emphasis on how to make the work more relevant, true, comprehensible, and pointed. The afternoon will be left free for making new work using the new guidelines.

 

During the second day, participants will present their images created on the previous day, and discuss how to write about one’s own work. An artist’s statement will be crafted by each participant, to capture the ideas the workshop has generated.

 

Light refreshments and lunch will be served both days. Please contact Aperture staff regarding any dietary requirements and/or restrictions at least one week prior to the workshop.

 

 

Tim Davis is a photographer, writer, and musician living in upstate New York and teaching photography at Bard College. His recent exhibitions include a sound installation at the Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, Unphotographable, for which he sampled the word unphotographable from dozens of versions of “My Funny Valentine” into a single composition. He is hard at work on a project called Cartoons, inspired by the cartoonist B. Kliban, in which he is turning jokes and comedic observances into photographs. His books include My Life in Politics (Aperture, 2006).

Tuition: $500 ($450 for currently enrolled photography students and Aperture Members at the $250 level and above)

 

DEADLINE EXTENDED!
Register by Thursday, May 12.

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Contact education@aperture.org with any questions.

 

 

 

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS

Please refer to all information provided regarding individual workshop details and requirements. Registration in any workshop will constitute your agreement to the terms and conditions outlined.

Aperture workshops are intended for adults 18 years or older.

If the workshop includes lunch, attendees are asked to notify Aperture at the time of registration regarding any special dietary requirements.

 

Release and Waiver of Liability

Aperture reserves the right to take photographs or videos during the operation of any educational course or part thereof, and to use the resulting photographs and videos for promotional purposes.

By booking a workshop with Aperture Foundation, participants agree to allow their likenesses to be used for promotional purposes and in media; participants who prefer that their likenesses not be used are asked to identify themselves to Aperture staff.

 

Refund/Cancellation Policy for Aperture Workshops

Aperture workshops must be paid for in advance by credit card, cash, or debit card. All fees are non-refundable if you should choose to withdraw from a workshop less than one month prior to its start date, unless we are able to fill your seat. In the event of a medical emergency, please provide a physician’s note stating the nature of the emergency, and Aperture will issue you a credit that can be applied to future workshops. Aperture reserves the right to cancel any workshop up to one week prior to the start date, in which case a full refund will be issued. A minimum of eight students is required to run a workshop.

 

Lost, Stolen, or Damaged Equipment, Books, Prints Etc.

Please act responsibly when using any equipment provided by Aperture or when in the presence of books, prints etc. belonging to other participants or the instructor(s). We recommend that refreshments be kept at a safe distance from all such objects.

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