Demystifying the Photo Book with Joyce Tenneson

Upcoming workshop at The New Orleans Photography Workshops

Demystifying the Photo Book with Joyce Tenneson, October 21-23

Many photographers have bodies of work they would like to see published, as well as interesting ideas for book projects they would like to expand. This course is intended to give students the editing, sequencing, and design skills, to take their own book project from start to finish.

Students will have one-on-one guidance with Joyce, who will help them edit and sequence their images into a strong body of work, ready for production. Other essential components of the book design process, such as effectively incorporating text with images, will be covered.

This is a dynamic workshop that familiarizes participants with design and layout possibilities, encourages them to explore the relationship between images, and gives the photographer an overview of the steps involved in producing a successful book project from a body of work.

This is Joyce's second workshop at the NOPW.

Complete information at neworleansworkshops.com/artists/joyce/photobook.html

A Beginner's Workshop on Photo Book Publishing, with Melanie McWhorter | December 12-13 2011

Upcoming workshop at The New Orleans Photography Workshops

A Beginner's Workshop on Photo Book Publishing, with Melanie McWhorter

This two-day workshop covers the evolution of a photography book from its inception as an idea, to a finished product. Intended for photographers with little or no experience in publishing, A Beginner's Workshop on Photo Book Publishing is an interactive, dynamic workshop that enables participants to fine tune their ideas and become familiar with design, layout and essential publishing processes. When completed, participants will be able to make decisions about publishing their work and envision all of the steps involved in producing their project from start to finish.

The workshop begins by familiarizing with basic book design elements and book publishing vocabulary, and expands into topics including making a basic budget and conceiving ideas for fundraising, branding and marketing to your audience, contacting publishers or printers, knowing the roles and jobs involved in publishing your photobook and deciding whether to work with a publisher or self-publish, and then, traditionally or with print-on-demand.

Melanie covers the basic components of financing, as well as the essentials of distribution ranging from such easily overlooked matters as storage, to the finer points of what is required to get the book on to the dealers' shelves. This workshop is the perfect publishing overview for photographers of all levels.

Placed immediately following the 2011 PhotoNOLA portfolio review week end, the timing of this workshop is designed for photographers also interested in attending the many events and exhibitions that take place during New Orleans' annual celebration of photography.

Tuition: $395 | Materials fee: $25

Melanie McWhorter has been the manager of the photo-eye's Book Division for over 10 years and curates exhibitions of local photographers in photo-eye Bookstore. She is a regular contributor to the online magazines Fraction Magazine and photo-eye maintains her own photo-related blog, melaniephotoblog.com and is co-founder of Finite Foto which focuses on photography in New Mexico.

Melanie has been interviewed about photography in numerous print and online publications including PDN, The Picture Show, Santa Fe's THE magazine; has judged the prestigious photography competitions Women Photojournalists of Washington's Annual Exhibition and Fotografia: Fotofestival di Roma's Book Prize; and has reviewed portfolios at Fotografia, Photolucida, Review Santa Fe and PhotoNOLA.

Recently her own photography was exhibited in Sweet Escape at Morean Arts Center in St. Petersburg, FL; Through the Lens: Creating Santa Fe and in Fraction Magazine. She resides with her family in Santa Fe, NM.

Complete information at neworleansworkshops.com/artists/melanie

Polymer Photogravure workshop with Josephine Sacabo | May 13-15 2011

Upcoming workshop at The New Orleans Photography Workshops

The New Orleans Photography Workshops will offer an extended week-end workshop on Polymer Photogravure with Josephine Sacabo on May 13-15, 2011.

Polymers are a new method of making gravures without using strong chemicals - in fact they are exposed in sunlight or a UV light and processed in water. The results are as beautiful as copper gravures.

The workshop will cover the making of polymer photogravures from film negatives or digital files.

Complete information at neworleansworkshops.com/artists/josephine/photogravure.html

The Fine Art Digital Print

This workshop teaches the professional skills necessary to craft exhibition-quality prints with an Epson printer.

While modern 'prosumer' printers are capable of producing high quality digital prints, they don't work optimally out of the box.
The two-day weekend course teaches participants the workflow necessary to get the prints they envisioned out of their Epson printer.
The focus is on printing with both color and black/gray pigment inks on coated and rag papers.

Topics include:
* Fine Art printing tools and color workflow
* Color management concepts, monitor calibration and paper profiling
* Black and white printing workflow
* Hardware, ink and media

December 11 & 12, 2010
Tuition: $240

Framing Workshop

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A workshop covering the essentials of picture framing is offered at The Darkroom on Saturday November 20th, 10am-5pm.

The class is designed for visual artists with no prior framing experience and who wish to acquire the skills necessary to create professional quality frames at The Darkroom's DIY Framing Studio.

Topics covered include:
* Design options for the presentation of art on paper and canvas
* Conservation framing techniques, materials and tools
* Matting, museum-mounting, dry-mounting, fitting and much more

Tuition: $95 + Materials fee: $40

Keith Carter: Hocus Focus Master Class

November 12-14 2010

This shooting/discussion master class is designed to help you discover or renew your creative spirit, and broaden the way you think about photography. Its purpose is to help serious amateur or professional photographers reconcile practical and creative lives, to re-examine your own creative process exploring the narrative, aesthetic, and emotional aspects of image making, and find new paths to creative growth. Our goals are to help each participant develop or refine a sense of personal style and to make serious amateur, fine-art, and commercial work more passionate and fulfilling.

Emphasizing simplicity, use of natural light, practical demonstrations, field-trips, individual portfolio reviews, and discussions centering on the work of both historically significant and little known photographers, we try to refine our views on producing work and balancing the various aspects of a busy life. In addition to various techniques and expressive digital printmaking, we discuss how to develop projects, exhibitions, and the publishing world.

Participants may work in black and white or color, film or digital. All camera formats welcome. Everyone is encouraged to bring a sense of humor and a sense of purpose. Wise-asses, hotdogs, and burn-outs are welcome.

Tuition & fees: $850

A Beginner's Workshop on Photobook Publishing, with Melanie McWhorter

December 6 & 7, 2010

This two-day workshop covers the evolution of a photography book from its inception as an idea to a finished product.

Intended for photographers with little or no experience in publishing, A Beginner's Workshop on Photobook Publishing is an interactive, dynamic workshop that enables participants to fine tune their ideas and become familiar with design, layout and essential publishing processes. When completed, participants will be able to make decisions about publishing their work and envision all of the steps involved in producing their project from start to finish.

Placed between two weekends of PhotoNOLA, the timing of this workshop is ideal for photographers interested in attending the many events and exhibitions that take place during New Orleans' annual celebration of photography.

Topics covered include researching and developing the concept for a book and the important decisions that must be made at each step along the way. For instance, how does one determine a target audience? What publisher is right for you and how do you approach them? Is it better to work with an established publisher, or is it better to self-publish in the bold new world of the digital book?

Melanie covers the basic components of financing, as well as the essentials of distribution ranging from such easily overlooked matters as storage, to the finer points of what is required to get the book on to the dealers' shelves. This workshop is the perfect publishing overview for photographers of all levels.

Tuition: $395

Debbie Fleming Caffery | Visual Storytelling | October 21-25, 2010

This workshop invites photographers to explore a unique and challenging intersection, one that is fundamental to the nature of photography- images that document the world from a personal perspective.

Through daily morning discussions and reviews of works in progress followed by afternoon shooting sessions, participants hone their skills, capture emotional content, and create memorable images in a legendary New Orleans neighborhood. Famous for its friendly, eccentric and colorful characters, the French Quarter over its nearly 300-year history has inspired artists and writers from Edgar Degas and Walker Evans to William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams and any number of others whose creativity was sparked by its diverse and individualistic inhabitants. Mime artists and street performers, exotic dancers and drag queens, blues singers and fortunetellers all contribute to the heady mix of a neighborhood known for round the clock street life.