Do you want to develop your connection to photography? Do you want to use photography to create a deeper relationship to Bay Area neighborhoods? This workshop will help you take stronger and more individual photos that reflect a ‘sense of place’ of a local neighborhood.
A ‘Sense of Place’ is based on many things. During this workshop, we will be looking closely at many aspects of place and how they are important to the photographic process. I will lead a tour [an organized drift/dérive] through each 'place' in order to heighten a relationship to it. Students will then be able to take photos on your own, to be followed by an in-depth conversation about the photographic process.
During this workshop, every student will create a series of works that will have expanded your experience with 'place'. The discussion period after will focus on each student heightening an understanding of their own photographic processes - in relation to 'place'.
NOTE: Class will go forward regardless of amount of students that sign-up. Rain does not cancel unless you get an e-mail, and then the class will be re-scheduled.
Laurie Halsey Brown is an artist and the Director/Founder of senseofplace LAB. She received her MFA from California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles and then lived in New York City
for ten years before moving to Rotterdam, the Netherlands for five years. She presently
lives in San Francisco - [and plans to build her own farm/house someday, and have chickens and goats.]
A large scale interdisciplinary piece based on her residency in the World Trade Center
was shown at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC in 2001, and her work
afterwards has been shown nationally in places such as Exit Art, White Columns and
internationally, including creating several large interdisciplinary art projects funded by
the Dutch and British government. She has also had video work shown internationally in
such venues as the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
She was one of ten finalists for a 2012 Masterminds Grant from SF Weekly: Honoring
the Bay Area’s Most Inventive Artists. Her photographs were in a 2011-2012 exhibition
in the Bay Area juried by Sandra S. Phillips, Senior Curator of Photography at the San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Drew Johnson, Curator of Photography at the
Oakland Museum of California – and won a Jurors Choice Award. She is also included
in the 2011-2012 exhibition Before the Fall at the New York State Museum.
Brown’s work has been written about in Art in America, and several times in The New
York Times, and most recently in SF Weekly. Her works are part of the permanent
collection in the Museum Boijmans, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and in many private
collections. She has been actively involved in guest residencies nationally and
internationally including Belfast, N. Ireland; Berlin, Germany; Rotterdam, the
Netherlands and in the UK. She has been a faculty member of the New School
University, NYC since 1999, where she teaches an online course she developed called ‘Interdisciplinary Media and Contemporary Society.’
