BUILDING A BODY OF WORK IN THE REAL WORLD

Sasha Wolf and Special Guests: Barbara Bosworth, Doug DuBois, Todd Hido, Catherine Opie, Kelli Connell, & Rahim Fortune.

DATES: September 23 - November 4, 2023
Saturdays 11am - 2pm (US Eastern Time)

All sessions will be recorded and available to participants through December 15, 2023.


What makes a strong, fully developed body of work? What does the life cycle of a project look like, from concept to execution to completion?

Sasha Wolf will present a 7-week online class focused on project development, closely examining and dissecting the elements required of a fully developed photographic project.

Through lectures presented on a wide variety of photographers, Wolf will examine the concepts of recurring motifs and forms in the work, the importance of elements such as a distinct color palette and point of view, as well as the relationship between concept and the aesthetics you choose to work with.

She will also cover different working methods, including short, medium, and long-term projects, research-based projects, and projects that take shape organically through a “shoot first, edit later” approach. She will discuss work that begins with a preconceived idea as well as projects discovered through the process of editing. All work discussed will fall loosely into the basket of post-documentary or observational work; that is, work that engages with the world as it is.

This Lecture Series is intended for fine art photographers working on serial, project-based bodies of work and is open to photographers of all experience levels.

Barbara Bosworth, from the Series The Heavens.

Kelli Connell, Betsy, Bodie House, from Pictures for Charis.

Doug Dubois, Bonfire I, Russell Heights, 2011

Todd Hido, Untitled #1951, from House Hunting.

Catherine Opie, Pig Pen, from Being and Having, 1991.

Rahim Fortune, from I can't stand to see you cry, 2021

Each week will consist of two parts: a one-hour lecture by Sasha, in which examples of diverse artists and working methods are discussed, followed by an hour presentation by a guest artist. Ample time will be provided for Q&A with both Sasha and the Special Guest.

Sasha will cover work by Dawoud Bey, Barbara Bosworth, Elinor Carucci, Kelli Connell, Doug DuBois, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Todd Hido, Curran Hatleberg, Adam Katseff, Gillian Laub, Deana Lawson, Raymond Meeks, Mimi Plumb, Kristine Potter, Vanessa Winship, Bryan Schutmaat, Alec Soth and Rahim Fortune, among others, with several of these artists joining us as Special Guests.

Sasha Wolf

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After running the New York photography gallery, Sasha Wolf Gallery, for 10 years, Sasha transitioned to a private/pop-up model in 2017. Sasha represents 16 photographic artists, working to place their prints in museum and university collections, private and corporate collections and in individual homes.

Sasha advises and collaborates with her artists on book projects, grant proposals and career goals. Sasha also works with an extended group of artists as a book and project editor and on other professional practices. Sasha reviews and judges work for leading art institutions, universities and fairs numerous times a year and lectures and conducts artist's workshops around the country on professional practices and project development.

Sasha's book, PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice , now in its 3rd printing, was published by Aperture in the Fall of 2019 , additionally, Sasha hosts a popular podcast of the same name.

Prior to her work in the fine art photography world, Sasha was a writer, director and producer in the film and television industries and an award winning short filmmaker. Her last short film, Joe, was nominated for the Palme d'Or du court métrage at Cannes and has screened all over the world.

Saturday, September 23, 2023

Special Guest: Barbara Bosworth

Barbara Bosworth is a photographer whose large-format images explore the relationships between humans and the natural world. Whether chronicling hunters or bird banders or the seasonal changes that transform mountains and meadows, Bosworth’s attention to the world around her results in images that inspire viewers to look closely.

Bosworth is a professor emeritus of photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Her images display a generous attention to small facts, while her large-scale triptychs reveal a panoramic awareness that lets viewers glimpse relationships between frames. Bosworth reminds viewers that we shape the rest of nature and that it also shapes us.

Bosworth’s work is widely exhibited, notably in recent retrospectives at the Denver Art Museum in Colorado, Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Phoenix Art Museum in Arizona. Her publications include, The Sea (Radius Books, 2022), The Heavens (Radius Books, 2018), The Meadow (Radius Books, 2015), Natural Histories (Radius Books, 2013), Trees: National Champions (MIT Press; Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona, 2005).

Saturday, September 30, 2023

Special Guest: Doug DuBois

Doug DuBois received his MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and is an associate professor at Syracuse University.

DuBois' photographs are in collections at the MOMA, NY; SFMOMA, San Francisco, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; The Museum of Fine Art, Houston; the Library of Congress, Washington DC; and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell Colony, The National Endowment for the Arts, SITE Santa Fe and The John Gutmann Foundation. DuBois has exhibited at The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; MARCO, Rome; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Aperture Foundation; Higher Pictures & MOMA, NY.

Doug DuBois’ photographs appear in exhibition catalogues from Irish Museum of Modern Art, Second Sight: The David Kronn Collection (2014); the J. Paul Getty Museum, Where We Live: Photographs from the Berman Collection (2007) and the Museum of Modern Art, The Pleasures and Terrors of Domestic Comfort (1991).

Dubois has published two monographs with Aperture, My Last Day at Seventeen (2015) and All the Days and Nights (2009).

Saturday, October 7, 2023

Special Guest: Todd Hido

Todd Hido (b. Kent, Ohio, 1968) wanders endlessly, taking lengthy road trips in search of imagery that connects with his own memories. Through his unique landscape process and signature color palette, Hido alludes to the quiet and mysterious side of suburban America—where uniform communities provide for a stable façade—implying the instability that often lies behind the walls.

His photographs are in the collections of the Getty, Whitney Museum of American Art & San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Pier 24 Photography holds the archive of his published works.

Hido has published many books, including the award-winning monographs House Hunting (2001) & Excerpts from Silver Meadows (2013). His Aperture titles include Todd Hido on Landscapes, Interiors, and the Nude (2014), Intimate Distance: Twen- ty-Five Years of Photographs (2016) and Bright Black World (2018). His upcoming publication, which was titled before the pandemic, The End Sends Advance Warning, will be published in 2023.

Hido is also a collector and has created one of the most notable photobook collec- tions, which was featured in Bibliostyle: How We Live at Home with Books (2019).

Saturday, October 14, 2023

Special Guest: Catherine Opie

Catherine Opie (from Sandusky, OH; lives in Los Angeles, CA) is an artist working with photography, film, collage, and ceramics. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (1985), and an MFA from CalArts (1988).

Opie has exhibited throughout the United States, Europe & Japan. In 2008, a mid-career survey of her work was shown at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Solo exhibitions have been organized by the Henie Onstad Art Centre, Oslo; Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Aldrich Museum, Connecticut; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Saint Louis Art Museum; the Photographers’ Gallery, London; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Institute of Contempo- rary Art, Boston and the Long Beach Museum of Art, California.

Her work is in over 50 major collections worldwide. She received The Guggenheim Fellowship (2019), The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art Medal (2016) and a United States Artists Fellowship (2006). Opie is the Lynda and Stewart Resnick endowed Chair in Art and Art Department Chair at UCLA.

Saturday, October 21, 2023

Special Guest: Kelli Connell

Kelli Connell is a 2022-2023 Guggenheim Fellow. Her work investigates sexuality, gender, identity and photographer / sitter relationships. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, J Paul Getty Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and Museum of Contemporary Photography, among others. Publications of her work include PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice (Aperture), Photo Art: The New World of Photography (Aperture), and the monograph Kelli Connell: Double Life (DECODE Books). Connell has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, MacDowell, and The Center for Creative Photography. She has been an Artist-in-Residence at PLAYA, Peaked Hill Trust, LATITUDE, and Light Work. Kelli Connell lives in Chicago where she teaches at Columbia College Chicago.

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Special Guest: Rahim Fortune

Rahim Fortune uses photography to ask fundamental questions about American identity. Focusing on the narratives of individual families and communities, he explores shifting geographies of migration and resettlement, and the way that these histories are written on the landscapes of Texas and the American South.

Saturday, November 4, 2023

During the last session, we will conclude this class with a presentation by Sasha, on the ways to get your work seen and shown in the fine art photography world and the various venues and outlets for exhibition and publication.

*This schedule is subject to change at any time. If a guest presenter must cancel unexpectedly, we will work to confirm another artist with a similar level of expertise to join us.

Rahim Fortune, from I can't stand to see you cry, 2021

Kelli Connell, from the Series Pictures for Charis

Catherine Opie, Untitled #1 (Icehouses)

Doug Dubois, Tracy on her bed, Avella, PA, 1995

Todd Hido, 3225, 2003

Barbara Bosworth, The Heavens.

• Lectures will be conducted via Zoom.

• All sessions will be recorded for registrants to view via private access; replay will be available through December 15, 2023

• If you need or prefer to pay for this class in installments, please email: selma@laluzworkshops.com

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