CALL FOR WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS
With Artists in Residence
Wendy Ewald & Frédéric Brenner:
Photography, Collaboration, Community
Workshop Dates: November 1-18, 2022
Application Deadline: October 24, 2022
This fall, UVA welcomes two internationally renowned photographers, Wendy Ewald and Frédéric Brenner, for a joint residency from November 1-18, 2022. The residency will include three public conversations with the artists and an informal student workshop culminating in an exhibition of student photography at the Commons Gallery in the spring of 2023.
The workshop is free and open to any UVA student (undergraduate and graduate) and requires no prior experience in photography. Charlottesville community members are invited and encouraged to participate. At this time, the workshop can accommodate up to 15 participants. Stipends of up to $500 to cover material costs will be available to workshop participants.
Collaboration, community, and the photographer’s complex relationship with others are at the center of the workshop. Under the guidance of Ewald and Brenner, participants will explore photography as a collaborative practice that can shape and empower communities. Participants will conceive and begin to produce their own projects during the workshop and complete them over the course of three months with independent guidance over zoom. A selection of their work will be presented in a collaborative exhibition curated by Wendy Ewald. The objective of the workshop is to foster understanding, sensitivity, and empathy through creative work. In addition to hands-on activities in photographic practice there will be discussions on theory as well as on site-specific contexts. Workshop sessions will be scheduled for the evening hours with individual guidance available during the day.
Interested students and members of the community should contact the workshop coordinators, James Loeffler and Asher Biemann, by October 24 at fall2022photo@virginia.edu Enrollment will remain open until the workshop is filled.
Harshad, Hasmukh, Chandrakant, and Dasrath learning to hold the camera, 1992. B/w photograph. Courtesy of the artist. © Wendy Ewald