Workshop Description:
While you are in town for PhotoNOLA, join Eliot Dudik and other like-minded folks for a Friday afternoon workshop designed to help you grapple with editing and sequencing strategies and solutions for your personal photobook projects. Participants will come together and get to work moving their prints around in physical space to tease out narratives that are inherent across the photographs, whether they be abstract or documentary in nature. This will undoubtedly be a thought-provoking and collaborative afternoon, embedded within an energizing and inspirational weekend at PhotoNOLA. Rhythms and directions developed here will be terrific starting points that you may wish to further develop with Eliot during one of his 5-day intensive handmade photobook workshops.
Who Should Attend?
Anyone with a series of photographs who is thinking about making a book or who would like to workshop ideas for sequencing photographs for their website.
Class Preparation:
Participants only need to bring with them a small set of prints to work with. Please keep them small as space is limited; 4×6 inch prints are a good size for this. Print quality is also not paramount here, these prints are simply used as tools and will get handled quickly and perhaps roughly at times. Therefore, the prints for this workshop can just be made at your local drugstore or favorite cheap printer. You are welcome to make them yourself on your printer; however, there is no need to spend a lot of money on paper and ink for these. They do not need to be exhibition quality, just good enough to read. In terms of number of prints, this varies widely depending on the kind of project, but generally 40-80 small prints will work. Please feel free to get in touch with Eliot if you have questions (eliot@eliotdudik.com).
About the Instructor:
Eliot Dudik is an American photographer and book maker based in Richmond, Virginia. He works in long form photography and book projects, of which he has produced several handmade and traditionally published editions. When he is not teaching in the classroom at William & Mary, Eliot focuses a significant amount of his time mentoring, collaborating, and teaching photobook workshops. His books and prints are collected by places like the National Gallery of Art, Yale University, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Duke University, Cassilhaus, Chrysler Museum of Art, Do Good Fund, among others.
Eliot founded the photography program within the Department of Art & Art History at the College of William & Mary in 2014 where he continues to teach and learn. Also in December of 2014, Eliot participated in the PhotoNOLA Review, and was so pleased to have received the PhotoNOLA Review Prize that year! He is beyond thrilled to be coming back ten years later to help jury the inaugural PhotoNOLA Photobook Prize and lead a workshop in editing & sequencing for the photobook.
