Women in Photography: A Workshop with Women Photographers

Melanie Einzig --The G Road Collective

Four Saturdays
January 29, February 5, 12 and 26, 2011 from 10 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Description
A series of accomplished women photographers will present their work, discuss their experience and answer questions.

Students can earn 4 college credits. Students will participate in four Saturday workshops, explore the ways many different images work, attend exhibitions of photographs, engage in independent research and writing during the semester, and produce their own photographic essays and creative projects.

Benefit from the Reasonable Cost
Payment must be made prior to the first seminar.

Tuition	New York State and Center for Distance Learning	Out of State
Undergraduate	$207 per credit*	$558 per credit*

*plus prevailing fees

Faculty and Guest Lecturers

• Nina Berman is a documentary photographer with a primary interest in the American political and social landscape. Her images of wounded veterans from the Iraq war have been exhibited worldwide. Her many awards in art and journalism include ones from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the World Press Photo Foundation and the Open Society Institute.
• Regina Monfort, Genevieve Hafner and Melanie Einzig are making images, blogging and exhibiting as the G Road Collective. Having achieved much already in the documentary and street photography traditions, each woman is using an unobtrusive point-and-shoot camera to participate in a playful and creative group conversation around images and ideas.
• Linda Cummings works with ideas and gender, agency and beauty. Cummings’s work has appeared in Aperture and Blind Spot and has been collected by such institutions as the National Museum of American Art at the Smithsonian; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; the Museo Nazionale della Fotographia de Brescia, Italy; and Musee Jenisch Vevey, Switzerland.
• Stephanie Diamond makes photos wherever she is everyday creating a deep and broad archive which she uses for an innovative social practice. Working with organizations in communities throughout the USA, Diamond develops projects that use her photographs for communication and to bring beauty into the lives of other people.
• Amy Arbus has published four books of photography, including the award winning “On the Street 1980 -1990” and “The Inconvenience of Being Born.” The New Yorker called her most recent publication, “The Fourth Wall,” her masterpiece. Her photographs have appeared in more than 100 periodicals around the world, including New York Magazine and The New York Times Magazine.
• Mary N. Woods Ph.D. has explored the intersections of photography, film, architecture and urbanism, particularly how women photographers working in the early 20th century observed the buildings and streetscapes of New York City. She is the author of “Beyond the Architect’s Eye: Photographs of the American Built Environment.”
• Clarissa T. Sligh, at 15 years old, became the lead plaintiff in the 1955 Virginia school desegregation case Clarissa Thompson, et al., vs. Arlington County School Board. Her work takes into account change, transformation and complication, themes critical to fostering social justice. Sligh’s recent installation “Hope” was initiated by the Montana Human Rights Network in response to hate literature donated by a defecting member of a white supremacist group. Sligh’s work is cherished by many prominent collections and organizations.
• DeeDee Halleck is a media activist, founder of Paper Tiger Television and co-founder of the Deep Dish Satellite Network, the first grass roots community television network. Her most recent book is “Hand Held Visions: The Impossible Possibilities of Community Media,” a collection of essays, presentations and lectures written with the aim of developing a critical sense of the potential and limitations of mediated communication.
• Mel Rosenthal Ph.D., graduated from City College of New York and earned a Ph.D. in American literature and studies from the University of Connecticut. He first learned photography working at the University Hospital in Dar es Salaam (Haven of Peace) in Tanzania. Rosenthal is well known for his work in the South Bronx, Nicaragua, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Vietnam as well as the Triage Project documenting homelessness in New York City. More recently, Rosenthal has photographed in refugee communities throughout New York state. His camera poignantly captures the struggle of people striving to make the U.S. their home. Rosenthal has directed the photography program at SUNY Empire State College for many years and is a SUNY distinguished teaching professor emeritus. His books are “In the South Bronx of America” and “Villa Sin Miedo !Presente!”
• Andrea Callard currently produces videos and slide shows for www. greenplanet21.com. Her early work was about nature in the city. In 2010, her preserved Super 8mm films from the ’70s were screened at the Museum of Modern Art, 56th Oberhausen Film Festival, the Österreichisches Filmmuseum in Vienna, the Orphans 7 Symposium in NYC and other venues. Callard was an officer of Collaborative Projects, Inc. during The Times Square Show of 1980 and photographically documented the show. Her photographs are widely published alongside cultural and art historians. Callard produced the Avocet Portfolio which published 48 editions of fine art screen prints by important contemporary artists. Working with organizations like Studio In A School and Young Audiences, she moved ideas from the art world into public educational reform efforts.
• Eugenia D’Ambrosio is a graduate of SUNY Empire State College, a photographer and the workshop teaching assistant.