STACY KRANITZ:
“WORKING IN THE EXPANDED DOCUMENTARY TRADITION”
REGISTRATIONS ARE CLOSED.
[10-WEEK ONLINE CLASS]
STACY KRANITZ:
“WORKING IN THE EXPANDED DOCUMENTARY TRADITION”
TUESDAYS JANUARY 10 – MARCH 14, 2023
This course will be devoted to exploring long-form, immersive storytelling in the documentary tradition. We will explore a broad spectrum of storytelling possibilities that incorporate fact, fiction, journalism, performance, archives and activism. The class’s scope and focus is ideally suited to photographers with a body of work in progress that want to benefit from both practical and theoretical input week to week as they refine the narrative direction and artistic vision of their projects.
In addition to critiques, you can expect readings, writing assignments, and discussion to challenge the way you think about your work. We will also devote time to practical aspects of project development (how to fund projects, ethical concerns, promoting the work, giving back to communities where the work is made and developing projects for book, exhibition and magazine publications, etc).
The course is designed to support any documentary artists working across multi-media. While we will center most of the discussions around photography, participants working in moving image, sound, text, drawing and sculpture are all welcome and encouraged.
STRUCTURE:
8 class group sessions + 2 sessions of one-on-one meetings (2×30 minutes per participant)
Enrollment limited to 12 participants.
SCHEDULE:
Meets online on Tuesdays, from noon-3pm EST (New York), 9am-12pm PST (Los Angeles), 5-8pm GMT (London, UK) on the following days (except 1:1 meetings*):
January 10: Group meeting #1
January 17: Group meeting #2
January 24: Group meeting #3
January 31: Group meeting #4
February 7: 1:1 meetings #1, to be scheduled between 11am and 6pm*
February 14: Group meeting #5
February 21: Group meeting #6
February 28: Group meeting #7
March 7: 1:1 meetings #2, to be scheduled between 11am and 6pm*)
March 14: Group meeting #8
A list of materials to prepare, along with upload portfolio page links and Zoom classroom logins will be provided a week before the start of class.
© Stacy Kranitz. From the series and book As It Was Give(n) to Me.
© Stacy Kranitz. From the series From the Study on Post Pubescent Manhood.
© Stacy Kranitz. From the series As It Was Give(n) to Me.
© Stacy Kranitz. From the series As It Was Give(n) to Me.
© Stacy Kranitz. From the series As It Was Give(n) to Me.
ABOUT STACY KRANITZ
Working within the documentary tradition, Stacy Kranitz makes photographs that acknowledge the limits of photographic representation. Her images do not tell the “truth” but are honest about their inherent shortcomings, and thus reclaim these failures (exoticism, ambiguity, fetishization) as sympathetic equivalents in order to more forcefully convey the complexity and instability of the lives, places, and moments they depict. Kranitz was born in Kentucky and currently lives in the Appalachian Mountains of eastern Tennessee. She is a 2020 Guggenheim Fellow. Additional awards include Time Magazine Instagram Photographer of the Year, the Michael P. Smith Fund for Documentary Photography and a Southern Documentary Fund Research and Development grant. She works as an editorial photographer for clients including Time, National Geographic, Vanity Fair, The Atlantic and Mother Jones. Her first monograph, As it Was Give(n) to Me, was published by Twin Palms in the Spring of 2022.
https://www.stacykranitz.com/
@stacykranitz