FINDING YOUR VISION: OAXACA, MEXICO 2018 WITH ALEX WEBB AND REBECCA NORRIS WEBB FINDING YOUR VISION: OAXACA, MEXICO 2018 WITH ALEX WEBB AND REBECCA NORRIS WEBB This workshop will be about finding your own unique vision of the airy southern Mexico city of Oaxaca by using the camera to explore the region in a direct, spontaneous way. Open to both serious amateurs and professionals alike, from fine art photographers to documentary photographers, from college students to seasoned photographers, it is a workshop that will emphasize the development of your own personal way of seeing photographically. This workshop will also be about learning how to edit your work intuitively, and will include discussions about how to take your photography to the next level. NOTE: This is a workshop for photographers who collaborate with the world, not for those who dramatically alter their photographs digitally. DATES: ACCOMMODATIONS: Parador de Alcala Hotel. February 11-17, 2018 We have blocked rooms at Parador de Alcala Hotel, where Alex and Rebecca will stay. We strongly encourage students to stay in the same hotel. We have a special rate for the class that expires on Nov 10 so please make your reservation before that day. For more information about special rates and how to make your reservation with the discount please email [email protected]. photoxpeditions.com [ +1.888.741.3974 [email protected] ] 1 FINDING YOUR VISION: OAXACA, MEXICO 2018 WITH ALEX WEBB AND REBECCA NORRIS WEBB WORKSHOP SCHEDULE IN BRIEF MORE ABOUT THE SCHEDULE images on the wall; and how long-term projects can evolve into books and This schedule is subject to change at any There are two main components of this exhibitions. time. class: the spontaneous act of photographing and intuitive editing. The WHAT TO BRING THE FIRST DAY —Sunday, Feb. 11: 7:30-8:30pm: workshop will begin with Alex and Workshop Welcome and Oaxaca lecture; Rebecca—a creative team who between The first day we would like all appetizers and beer/wine. the two of them have authored 18 books participants to bring about 30 PRINTS —who will critique each participant’s (NOT digital files*), representing the work —Monday, Feb. 12: 9:30am-1pm past work as a starting off point for a that they feel best represents who they portfolio reviews; presentations; 1-2: larger discussion about various are as photographers. We are interested lunch; 2-3:30 presentations and editing photographic issues. By that first in each participant’s individual vision, exercise; 3:30-7pm photographing afternoon, participants will be working on rather than whether he or she can work assignments. their first assignment, which they will professionally or not. So bring a personal Evening event: 7:30-8:30pm: Slant choose themselves. It may be a specific project or projects—the work that Rhymes: Photographs of Alex Webb and street, family, or individual. It may be represents your passions, your Rebecca Norris Webb followed by Q&A. about a nearby village or lent celebrations obsessions—not a set of portraits or Optional Group Dinner: 8:30-10pm in towns such as San Martin Tilcajete, editorial pictures done simply to satisfy Teotitlan del Valle and Zacchila, but it an editor or art director. —Tuesday, Feb. 13: 9:30am-10:00am: must be something that you're participants give edit to Mark; 10-1pm passionate enough to return to every day *IMPORTANT: Please bring PRINTS for the group edit, presentations; 1-2pm lunch; to photograph. We can facilitate first day, NOT digital files. For the first 2-3: presentations; 3-7pm photographing connecting students with fixers for their reviews, we find that working with prints assignments individual needs if they require help with has huge benefits. The prints do not translation and access (for a reasonable have to be fine prints: they can be cheap —Wed., Feb. 14: 9:30am-10:00am: fee). 4x6-inch machine prints, inkjet prints, participants give edit to Mark; 10-1pm etc. – just prints that enable us to see the group edit, presentations; 1-2pm lunch; For the rest of the workshop, we will image. 2-3:30: individual meetings; 3-7pm meet in the mornings and critique as a photographing assignments group each student’s ongoing work. Throughout the workshop, we will try to ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR —Thursday. Feb. 15: 9:30am-10:00am: build a coherent set of images for each THE WORKSHOP participants give edit to Mark; 10-1pm photographer that will begin to represent group edit, presentations; 1-2pm lunch; his or her photographic stance or attitude Since we’ll be working digitally, everyone 2-3:30: individual meetings; 3-7pm toward Oaxaca, Mexico. We will view this must bring a memory stick or a portable photographing assignments. work as a group slideshow at the end of hard drive to class each morning, so all Optional Group dinner: 8-9:30pm the workshop. work can be downloaded into a single workshop computer attached to a digital —Friday, Feb. 16: 9:30am-10:00am: Besides photographing and editing each projector. (We do not have time to shut participants give edit to Mark; 10-1pm day, there will also be print and book down the projector and hook up group edit, presentations; 1-2pm lunch; demonstrations, and an editing individual laptops.) We need to be able to 2-3:30: individual meetings; 3-7pm exercise. We will touch on a variety of see work (from the previous day) at the photographing assignments and pre-edit topics, including the process of beginning of the class everyday. Only on of final slide show. photographing spontaneously and the last day of the workshop, we will intuitively; how to photograph in cultures need photographers to bring their laptops —Sat., Feb. 17: 9:30am-10:00am: other than one's own; the relationship to class. You should also have some sort participants give edit to Mark; 10-1pm between images (such as the sequencing of editing software on your laptop, such group edit, presentations; 1-2pm group and juxtaposition of photographs); how to as Bridge or Lightroom. lunch; 2-4pm final edit. edit photographs intuitively; an Evening Event: 8-8:30: Final Slide Show introduction on being on press with a of Participants Photographs of the Week. book; how to work with a designer on a A FINAL NOTE: BRING QUESTIONS 8:30-10pm: Final Group Dinner and book; the practical realities of the And please bring lots of questions to the Farewell. magazine and art worlds; the emotional workshop. The ultimate direction of the and psychological implications of working workshop will be influenced by the kinds in color vs. black and white; the of questions that you pose. difference between images in a book and photoxpeditions.com [ +1.888.741.3974 [email protected] ] 2 FINDING YOUR VISION: OAXACA, MEXICO 2018 WITH ALEX WEBB AND REBECCA NORRIS WEBB TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE Slant Rhymes: Alex Webb and Rebecca WORKSHOP Norris Webb on “Memory City,” interview with Teju Cole, now the photography critic Please email 10jpgs (72dpi; 1080 inches for the New York Times Magazine: longest side) that represent who you are http://www.newyorker.com/culture/ as a photographer, or direct us to a series photo-booth/slant-rhymes-alex-webb- or two on your website. If you work in a rebecca-norris-webb-memory-city series, please include a selection from one or two personal projects –– the work Rebecca Norris Webb on New York Times that represents your passions, your Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/ obsessions. (We aren’t interested in 2012/06/21/grieving-a-loss-with-prairie- Originally a poet, Rebecca Norris Webb, photographs done simply to satisfy an and-poetry/ often interweaves her text and editor or art director or client.) Also photographs in her six books, most include a short description of why you’d notably with her monograph, My Dakota like to take this workshop (no more than TERMS & CONDITIONS (2nd ed, Radius, 2017)—an elegy for her 150 words in a word doc), and a short brother who died unexpectedly—with a bio (no more than 100 words as a word To reserve space in this workshop, a solo exhibition of the work at The doc). Please email your application to $500 per person deposit is required at Cleveland Museum of Art in 2015. Her Alex and Rebecca at the following email: the time of making the reservation. work has appeared in The New Yorker, [email protected] Deposits are due no later than 90 days The New York Times Magazine, Le prior to departure. Final payment is due Monde, among other publications, and is no later than 60 days prior to departure ABOUT ALEX WEBB in the collections of the Museum of Fine unless indicated otherwise in the Arts, Boston, Cleveland Museum of Art, description of the tour or workshop. All and George Eastman Museum, payments must be made by credit card Rochester, NY. Her sixth book, Slant or wire transfer to Photo Xpeditions, LLC, Rhymes (Rimas de reojo, Spanish ed.), a and instructions for payments will be collaboration with Alex, was released in mailed upon confirmation of participation. 2017. The couple’s popular Aperture workshop book, Alex Webb and Rebecca Photo Xpeditions reserves the right to Norris Webb on Street Photography and cancel a reservation if full payment has the Poetic Image, is in its 3rd printing. not been received by 60 days prior to departure. For reservations made within LINKS 60 days of the departure date, full payment is required when the reservation Alex and Rebecca’s website: is accepted. All cancellation notices must Alex Webb has published 16 books, http://www.webbnorriswebb.co be received in writing and will become including a survey book of 30 years of effective as of the date of the postmark.