2024 Summer Workshops
The first language we speak is the visual. Our eyes are in constant dialogue with the present. With photography, we speak with the past. What a portrait, that frozen moment in a person’s journey, tells us about its subject’s story is as subjective as each of us. Through the application of philosophy, practice, and technique, the photographer can better speak to a subject’s story, making compelling images to draw the viewer in, to pique curiosity, to engender learning what that subject had to say. The vitality of portraiture is its ability to preserve the story each of us tells. This workshop will encourage and hone your skill at telling the story of the storyteller.
As part of your materials fee, you will be given ten sheets of photo paper for making prints. Additional sheets may be purchased from the Work Center for $1 per sheet.
Biography
Beowulf Sheehan is a photographer of portraiture and performance in the arts and humanities. He has photographed over eight hundred writers from more than fifty countries. His work has been published in the likes of Elle, Esquire, The New Yorker, Newsweek, Time, Vanity Fair, and Vogue and exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York, Dostoevsky Museum, International Center of Photography, and Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture.