RON JUDE: "THINKING BEYOND THE PORTFOLIO: ACTIVATING PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGH CONTEXT" AUG.25-29 WORKSHOP

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RON JUDE: “THINKING BEYOND THE PORTFOLIO: ACTIVATING PHOTOGRAPHS THROUGH CONTEXT”
AUGUST 25-29, 2025, FOTOFILMIC SPACE, BOWEN ISLAND, BC

Participants in this workshop will be encouraged to think of the context in which their photographs are seen as a creative consideration nearly as important as the images themselves. We will look at and discuss a range of possibilities for the presentation and activation of photographs, from the sequential structures of books to gallery installations to the inclusion of other media with your photographs such as sound, video, or sculptural elements.

Our working premise will be that less-is-often-more, and that “context” can be thought of as something as simple as effectively sequencing your images, or as elaborate as mixed-media installations. It is assumed that the work of each participant will be far enough along in development that conversations of this nature will be relevant and useful.

This program is limited to 12 participants.

 

Top and bottom banner images: © Ron Jude. From the series (2021-22) and book (Monogram, Ghent, 2022) Dark Matter, Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles, 2023.

© Ron Jude, Dark Matter exhibiton view, Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles, 2023.

© Ron Jude, Coastal Fungus (version #3), 2024.

© Ron Jude, Low Tide, 2024.

ABOUT RON JUDE

© Mike Slack, 2021.

Ron Jude was born in Los Angeles in 1965 and raised in rural Idaho. He lives and works in Eugene, Oregon, where he is a professor of art and Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Oregon. His work often explores the relationship between place, memory, and narrative through multiple approaches ranging from the use of appropriated images to photographs that echo traditional documentary strategies. Jude earned a BFA in studio art from Boise State University, Boise, Idaho, in 1988, and an MFA from Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in 1992. His photographs have been widely exhibited nationally and internationally and are held in the permanent collections of the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. Jude is the author of ten books, including Other Nature (2008); Lick Creek Line (2012); Lago (2015); Nausea (2017); and 12Hz (2020). He has received grants or awards from Light Work; San Francisco Camerawork; the Aaron Siskind Foundation; and the Friends of Photography and was the recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in 2019. His 12 Hz project was organized as a traveling exhibition by the Barry Lopez Foundation for Art & Environment in 2021 and was recently exhibited at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, TN. Jude is represented by Gallery Luisotti in Santa Monica and Robert Morat Galerie in Berlin.

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