Central to our workshops concept is also to re-experience a kind of natural artistic conviviality or camaraderie lost to globalization and instant communication: our small Pacific island setting slows down time and invites both the conversational and the personal to take part unscheduled making for meaningful networking. OCTOBER 14-15, 2017 WEEKEND MASTER WORKSHOP We’re incredibly excited to announce Todd Hido for our next Master Workshop weekend in October! Don’t miss this rare opportunity to learn directly from one of the most iconic figures of photography today! Read on below for a detailed workshop description and quickly reserve 1 of the only 20 open seats! WORKSHOP TYPE WORKSHOP TITLE GUEST ARTIST WHEN WHERE PARTICIPANTS WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION “Todd Hido’s suburban photographs juxtapose his signature, moody landscapes, shrouded by the filmic glances he depicts in his portraits, creating a series of cinematic moments which compel the viewer into his own universe of memory and intimacy. Join Hido as he shares his expertise in this exclusive weekend workshop. The course will cover the experiences, strategies, and influences that form and shape a photographer’s career. ABOUT TODD HIDO Todd Hido is a San Francisco Bay Area-based artist whose work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times Magazine, Eyemazing, Wired, Elephant, FOAM, and Vanity Fair. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Getty, the Whitney Museum of Art, the Guggenheim Museum, New York, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the de Young, the Smithsonian, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Pier 24 Photography, as well as in many other public and private collections. He has over a dozen published books amongst which the recent monographs ‘Excerpts from Silver Meadows‘ released in 2013 with Nazraeli Press along with an innovative b-sides box set designed to function as a companion piece to this award-winning monograph (2014), and Aperture’s monumental ‘Intimate Distance: Twenty-Five Years of Photographs, A Chronological Album‘ released in October 2016. Bowen Island has long been known since the early 1900’s as Vancouver’s gate-away to nature taking Vancouverites far from the city yet being so close and easily accessible. Still a popular one-day destination today, Bowen Island sits less than 2 miles to the mainland coast at its closest point making for a short 20mn taxi boat ride from downtown Vancouver, and an even shorter 15mn ferryboat crossing from Horseshoe Bay in West Vancouver. The island itself is about 3.5 miles wide by 7.5 miles long and is being called home by up to 3,400 residents at the peak of the summer. Famously, there are no camping grounds, hotels or developed resorts on the island, a testimony to the strong independent mind of its widely artistic/creative community that forces most visitors to vacate of the end of the day. This has helped preserve a sense of authenticity and simplicity living on the island, enjoying its natural beaches and small village life less than an hour away from Vancouver’s bustling urban culture. “The Cove” where BC ferryboats dock almost every hour of the day serves as its main shopping and dining district featuring a marina with half a dozen fine restaurants, a few coffee places, a local pub and general store, several boutique stores, and about half a mile further up an “Artisan Square” with art and craft galleries, a gym and more. More info at: https://www.tourismbowenisland.com/
FotoFilmic Master Workshops program is designed to facilitate access to the celebrated practice of some of today’s most influential photographic artists. Conveniently scheduled during weekends and in the midsts of Bowen Island’s amazing natural scenery (Vancouver, BC, Canada), FotoFilmic’s Weekend Master Workshops are sure to inspire and boost the creative vision of all burgeoning photographers!
TODD HIDO: “Sources and Influences”
2-day Weekend Master Workshop
Sources and Influences
Todd Hido
Saturday, October 14 & Sunday, October 15, 2017
Bowen Island // Vancouver, BC, Canada
Open to all film and digital photographers, 20 Seats Max
Hido will describe in detail the process of making his latest book Intimate Distance. He will candidly present his own work and provide answers to the elusive questions all photographers ask themselves: Where does my work come from? What does it say? How can I express myself in a more effective way? What does it mean—and does that even matter?
The friendly review of student portfolios will follow, and each student will receive personalized feedback and tasks for improvement.”
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