4-DAY WORKSHOP (three full days plus morning session on fourth day)
THE FINE ART NUDE

Jock Sturges has been at the top of his game for over 25 years, world renowned for his extraordinary nudes published in his many beautiful books. In this special workshop, Sturges will work intensely with his students, revealing his motivations and techniques. It will feature active picture-making, supplemented by morning presentations/demonstrations by Jock, also allowing time for group and individual picture critiques. Emphasis will be on the nude in the landscape (Joshua Tree National Monument) and in evocative settings offered by the Korakia. Sturges is widely regarded for his commitment to his work and his classes, attendees will find this workshop a game-changing experience.

The course will consist of an in-depth immersion in both the technical and psychological challenges inherent to making nude portraits. Most important will be a close examination of the concept of relationship in working with models with an emphasis on accepting as opposed to imposing “poses”. On the technical end, a rapid, intuitive use of the camera will be taught. Students can expect to be taking a large number of pictures to help them absorb and refine skills which are intended to liberate them from the sort of deliberate methodology that so often impedes spontaneity.

An important aspect of the class will be a careful review and critique of work done by each photographer prior to the workshop as well as during the workshop process. Students can bring work in any form but prints are the easiest and most useful for review.

Day One:
Sturges will present examples of his work, and review the works of his attendees. Time permitting, he will give a demonstration with one or more models at Korakia in the afternoon session.
Day Two:
Location Shooting at Korakia or Joshua Tree National Park in a specially approved area.
Day Three:
Morning session will be devoted to reviewing and critiquing attendee’s photography from day two. Photography will resume in the afternoon session at Korakia or elsewhere. Students will have a chance to incorporate the guidance given by Sturges in the morning session.
Day Four:
Review and critique of the previous day’s afternoon session.

Models will be provided each day, giving each participant ample time to make important photographs. The ratio of models to photographers is approximately 1:4.

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.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 9:00am – 4:00pm (plus Thursday 9:00am – 11:00am)

Price $1200 (Includes model fees and all transportation) *
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BIOGRAPHY

Jock Sturges is a fine art photographer living in Seattle, Washington. Best known for his nudes and extended portraits of families in Northern California counter-culture communities, Ireland and on French naturist beaches, his large format images borrow significantly from classical periods in both photography and nineteenth and early twentieth century painting. Represented by 26 galleries in ten countries, Mr. Sturges’ work is also to be found in the collection of many of the world’s museums including The Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris and The Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art in Germany. His published works include Jock Sturges, Scalo, Zurich, 1996, published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt and another Scalo monograph entitled Jock Sturges – New Work 1996 – 2000, published in October, 2000. Other monographs to his credit include: The Last Day of Summer, Aperture, NY, 1992, Radiant Identities, Aperture, NY 1994, Notes, Aperture, NY, 2005, 25 Years with the Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia and Evolutions of Grace, GAKKEN, Tokyo, 1994. His most recent books are a large color monograph entitled LIFE ~ TIME with Steidl Verlag in Germany, and a new black and white Aperture monograph, Misty Dawn: Portrait of a Muse, based on 26 years of work with one of his best known California models, Misty Dawn. He is currently working on an outsize monograph (70 cm’s square!) with Alexander Schulz of Galerie Vevais in Germany. Publication will be late March 2010.

Most recently Mr. Sturges has begun working in the world of high fashion with publications such as L’Uomo Vogue, Japan Vogue, Russian Vogue, French Vogue Rebel, POP, Arena Homme Plus, Paradis, Italian Marie Claire, etc. The fashion work is accomplished both with the same large format materials with which his fine art work is produced as well as the latest digital technologies.

Mr. Sturges travels to photograph, lecture and teach throughout the world but is reliably to be found working on the beaches of France almost any late summer afternoon.

Jock Sturges does not maintain a website and isn’t known to Tweet.

*A Note about Model Fees: Models will not be obliged to sign releases for workshop students. Photographers can discuss the subject directly with the models and make arrangements of mutual benefit to both, after the conclusion of the workshop program, but the model fee included in your registration fee does not include obtaining releases. There will be four models available for this workshop. Model fees can run between $350 and $2,000 per model in private sessions for nude photography.