© Ed Kashi 2009
4-DAY WORKSHOP (three full days plus morning session on fourth day)
ED KASHI: Visual Storytelling in the Digital Age
The digital age is giving documentary photographers and photojournalists extraordinary new ways to tell stories. With this new ability, you can also exercise a greater level of authorship with your work. This intensive three and 1/2 day workshop will allow you to share your work in an intimate session to learn more about how a visual storyteller with a mission works. Given the direction that editorial photography is moving, there has never been a greater need for the documentary photographer and photojournalist to be able to put a stamp on their work. This means establishing a mission and motivation to maintain a clear vision of what you will do with your work to create an impact. Ed Kashi will use as examples his many personal projects, including his seminal work on Aging in America and recent work on the Kurds in Iraq, India and the Niger Delta for National Geographic. He will show how you develop an idea, get funding, get access, determine your goals, and most importantly disseminate your work to create an impact on the subject, issue and hopefully society. We will look at photographs, multimedia and short films to consider the range of opportunities out there at the moment. Students will have a day of shooting and then review, plus a group critique of each student’s portfolio/essays during the workshop.
Photographers working with digital cameras should bring their laptops and be conversant with their hardware and software in order to facilitate downloading and projecting their work for critiques in class. Digital projectors with standard VGA cables will be provided. If you require DVI connectors and / or adapters, please bring one to class.
Fuji Films will provide reasonable amounts of film to attendees of this workshop at no charge. The A & I lab in Hollywood will process and proof films from this workshop at no charge. Click here for details.
Monday, March 29 – Wednesday, March 31 2:00pm – 10:00pm (plus Thursday, 9:00am – 11:00am)
Price: $800
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BIOGRAPHY
Ed Kashi is a photojournalist, filmmaker and educator dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times. A sensitive eye and an intimate relationship to his subjects are the signatures of his work. Kashi’s complex imagery has been recognized for its compelling rendering of the human condition. “I take on issues that stir my passions about the state of humanity and our world, and I deeply believe in the power of still images to change people’s minds. I’m driven by this fact; that the work of photojournalists and documentary photographers can have a positive impact on the world. The access people give to their lives is precious as well as imperative for this important work to get done. Their openness brings with it a tremendous sense of responsibility to tell the truth but to also honor their stories.”
Kashi’s images have been published and exhibited worldwide. His innovative approach to photography and filmmaking produced the Iraqi Kurdistan Flipbook. Using stills in a moving image format, this creative and thought-provoking form of visual storytelling has been shown in many film festivals and as part of a series of exhibitions on the Iraq War at The George Eastman House. Also, an eight-year personal project completed in 2003, Aging in America: The Years Ahead, created a traveling exhibition, an award-winning documentary film, a website and a book which was named one of the best photo books of 2003 by American PHOTO. Along with numerous awards, including honors from Pictures of the Year International, World Press Foundation, Communication Arts and American Photography, Kashi’s editorial assignments and personal projects have generated four books. In 2008, Curse of the Black Gold: 50 Years of Oil in the Niger Delta was published. June 2009 saw the publication of Kashi’s latest book, THREE, based on a series of triptychs culled from more than 20 years of image making.
In 2002, Kashi and his wife, writer / filmmaker Julie Winokur, founded Talking Eyes Media, a non-profit company that has produced numerous short films and multimedia pieces that explore significant social issues. The first project resulted in a book and traveling exhibition on uninsured Americans called, Denied: The Crisis of America’s Uninsured. A one-hour documentary film pertaining to this crucial health care challenge is currently in production for release in Fall 2009.
“Ed Kashi is intelligent, brave and compassionate. He always understands the nuances of his subjects. He fearlessly goes where few would venture. And he sympathetically captures the soul of each situation. Ed is one of the best of a new breed of photojournalistic artists.” David Griffin, Director of Photography, National Geographic
WEBSITE
http://www.edkashi.com
