BRIAN FINKE:
“DOCUMENTARY STORYTELLING”

REGISTRATIONS ARE CLOSED.

BRIAN FINKE: “DOCUMENTARY STORYTELLING”
AUGUST 27 – OCTOBER 15, 2023
SEPTEMBER 15-17, 2023, BOWEN ISLAND, BC

In this class, participants will focus on a commitment to developing and completing a long-term personal documentary photography storytelling project. Classes will be devoted to project reviews, critiques, and discussions about practical approaches and technical variations of the medium. It will also address magazine work for hire, book publishing, gallery representation, and how to use the work created in this class to build out a commercial career or art practice. Participants should come to class already working on a project or have project ideas in mind to discuss that they can readily photograph throughout the course.

The class will allow for the unfolding of a body of work over time. The first class will meet online to discuss projects, then for a 3-day in-person workshop on Bowen Island. Three weeks later, each participant will meet for a 30-minute one-on-one online session to discuss their work. The final class is a 4-hour online meeting where everyone presents their story and final project.

Schedule: Meets online on Sunday August 27, noon-4pm EDT New York time (group session)+ in-person on Bowen Island from Friday September 15 to Sunday September 17 + online on Saturday October 7 or Sunday October 8 (1:1 meetings) and on Sunday October 15 (final group session)

This program is limited to 12 participants.

All images © Brian Finke. From the series Bike Life.

ABOUT BRIAN FINKE: 

Brian Finke’s work is a visual culture commentary with a graphic sensibility and uniquely American point of context. A stylized documentarian and trained photojournalist, Finke’s work strikes at the core of contemporary life, capturing an honest and intimate range of human behaviors while finding the humor in the everyday. Often with boundary-pushing subject matter, Finke challenges the viewer to confront what is often right in front of them with an almost surreal understanding of immediacy. From street photography to commercial portraiture to fashion editorials, his immersion in culture-at-large creates imagery deeply tied to the political and emotional undertones of the modern world.  A graduate of the School of Visual Arts, Finke received a BFA in photography. He is the author of several books, and his first monograph, 2, 4, 6, 8, was named one of the best photography books by American Photo. Earlier in his career, Finke was an International Center for Photography annual Infinity Award finalist and won a prestigious New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. His work is in nine museum collections in the US and abroad, and he regularly shoots for editorial and commercial clients, including National Geographic, The New Yorker, New York Times, Delta, Uber, and Budweiser. His belief in arts education and pursuit of a photographic community has led Finke to teaching photography at Parsons in Manhattan and Red Hook Labs in Brooklyn, as well as giving lectures countrywide.

@brianfinke
https://brianfinke.com/