This photography workshop is titled ACCUMULATION and is based off of my working methods of accumulation, re-production and revision, a daily recursive process of generating, borrowing, photographing and re-photographing materials over time. Each participant will work on a project of their choice. I recommend they bring existing work and materials as a starting point, but that is not required. Projects may or may not be grounded in portraiture. This is not a portraiture workshop specifically. This workshop is about the photographer-artist’s relationship between the world, the print, and the studio and the ways in which they influence and alter each other in unexpected and generative ways.
This workshop methods are inspired by my time at two residencies in 2010 – 2011 – The Center for Photography at Woodstock and the Studio Museum in Harlem. In the summer of 2010 I had the opportunity to attend the CPW summer residency, where I began a process of printing unresolved photographs of my own and soliciting images of my house from a friend who was staying in my room in Brooklyn. Each morning I printed new work, brought it back to my studio to re-work and re-photograph, or to form inspiration for new photographs. And the cycle would continue. At the Studio Museum in Harlem this process led to a wonderful accumulation of working material amongst daily still-lifes, portraits and other observations and became the basis for my working methods that became Figures, Grounds and Studies (2014-16) and the Dark Room Mirror Studies from 2016-2020 as part of my larger DARK ROOM series.