Close to Home Photography Workshop
Port Townsend, WA

September 29 - October 1, 2011

Based on the popular Craft & Vision ebook, Close to Home: Finding Great Photographs in Your Own Back Yard, this workshop is designed to help you look more closely into your local surrounding and find great photographs no matter where you live.

Stuart Sipahigil, photographer and author of Close to Home, and Ray Ketcham, a professional photographer and teacher from Port Townsend, will help you explore your nearby surroundings as never before, looking deeply into your photography through instruction, exercises & assignments, and image reviews with both photographers.

About the Workshop

For 2-1/2 days, we'll work together to help you hone your observational skills and photographic vision to think more deeply about your photography and the pictures you make. We'll start the evening of the 29th with a overview from Stuart and Ray about learning how to see creatively in what you might consider to be familiar, if not mundane surroundings.

After breakfast on the morning of the 30th, we'll jump right into our first exercises, designed to focus your eyes and mind on the photographs you see close to you. After lunch, we'll discuss the morning's exercises and share some images, then Stuart & Ray will work with each participant on an assignment for the rest of the workshop. You'll have time to work on your assignment Friday afternoon and evening, then we'll meet for dinner and conversation

Finally, on Saturday the 1st, you'll have time in the morning to do the final work on your assignment and, after lunch, each participant will present their images and discuss their results with the rest of us.

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   About the Workshop Leaders

Stuart Sipahigil is an award-winning photographer, author and teacher. He is a staff photographer for Outside Source Design, a multimedia design agency in Indianapolis, Indiana, working for such clients as Eli Lilly & Company, The American Diabetes Association, and others. Stuart also teaches photography and post-processing classes at the Cornerstone Center for the Arts in Muncie, Indiana. He posts his thoughts on photography at his blog, The Light Without.

 

Originally from the American Southwest, Ray Ketcham has lived in the Pacific Northwest for the last thirty-five years where he first studied sculpture at the University of Western Washington and went on to show his work in New York and Seattle. Since he was a teenager, he has had a camera in hand and today he works as a commercial, freelance photographer. His clients include humanitarian and government organizations as well as local businesses. He also teaches and mentors new photographers, one-on-one and most recently through a round table held in Port Townsend. You can learn more about Ray and his work on his web site.