Once upon a time in China, the governor gave a rare fan carved of rhinoceros horn to a Zen Master, who forgot about it. Then he remembered.
Bring me the rhinoceros fan, he called to his assistant. It is broken, the assistant answered.
In that case, bring me the rhinoceros.
This is a workshop exploring the imagined and the real, ideas concerning sequence, and how your images suggest questions, present ideas and poetry. We will use sequencing as a base from which to unpack and explore a deeper understanding of visual language in your photography. Recommended readings include: Ben Shahn, The Shape of Content; Murakami, What I Talk about When I Talk about Running; Richard Hugo, The Triggering Town.
10 students; Tuition: $550 SOLD OUT
Email info@thehumid.com to express interest and register
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THIS SUMMER we’re hosting two workshops in Europe! This is serious work and serious fun—an experience that will deepen your practice and connect you to an international group of fellow artists.
Each session is open to 10-11 students. Most are dedicated photographers but serious beginners are encouraged. In group critiques we dive deep into each person's work to identify a voice and way forward, whether you are shaping a project, editing a book, or simply want to learn about yourself as an artist.
There will be time for 1-1 meetings, sequencing exercises, looking at the work of other artists, long conversations over meals, and creating new images as we explore nearby wonders. Artists, book publishers, and/or curators from France, Italy will visit.
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Tuition options (including lodging): $1850 (shared room with bunkbeds, shared bath) // $1950 (shared room with 2 single beds, shared bath) // $2250 (private room with king bed, private bath)
Daily light breakfasts & a few group dinners are provided.
BY STONE & SEA, FOSDINOVO, ITALY
JUNE 10-16, 2024
Lodging & location: We will all be staying as a group at Antiquae Lunae, a complex of condos with shared outdoor spaces and pool, a short walk from the midieval village of Fosdinovo. Each condo has three bedrooms, a living room, and kitchen. Students can share a bedroom or choose a single room for an additional fee. Class will be held in a brand new studio on premises, with evening slideshows and presentations. We will travel together to explore nearby marvels: seaside villages of Lerici, Tellaro, Porto Venere; the marble quarries of Carrara, and the caves and canyons in the valley of Lunigiana. The sea is 25 minutes away.
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Participating in The Humid’s summer workshop at Vers-Pont-du-Gard was an enriching, fun and meaningful experience. Irina and Mark were considerate of the entire group and their individual critiques were incredibly insightful, constructive and supportive. I found these very helpful in figuring out the direction I wanted to go in regarding a body of work and the workshop helped me gain confidence in taking photos again. The location was beautiful and there was a good balance between being able to explore the area while also going back to the bridge most days. I’m grateful for the new friendships I made there as well as Irina and Mark’s guidance and encouragement throughout the workshop.
-Solenne, 2023
>>Work made in Pont du Gard by last year’s students HERE<<
THE BRIDGE, PONT DU GARD, FRANCE
JUNE 23-29, 2024
Lodging & location: our “campus” is La Bégude Saint-Pierre, a 17th century post house that was converted into a beautiful inn and restaurant. If your budget allows, you could reserve a room here. Alternatively, there are various Airbnb options in the village of Vers, a 10-15 minute walk away. Outside of class, we explore the Roman aqueduct Pont du Gard (a Unesco heritage site) and Gardon River, so be prepared to do some light hiking, swimming, and kayaking. Mornings begin with optional meditations and we will make a trip to the nearby town of Uzes. The workshop is timed to end two days before Rencontres d’Arles, a yearly photo festival that is worth the trip.
Tuition: $1500
Renting a bicycle is highly suggested.
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Workshop with Mark & Irina in Athens, November 17-19, 2023
Online portfolio review, Feb 18 & 25, 2023
International workshop in Vers Pont du Gard, France, June 2023; photograph: Eduard Baldus, 1860
The Edit with Coralie Kraft: this workshop is designed to help photographers strengthen their editorial portfolios and get the inside scoop on working with magazines—from approaching editors, to fee structures, releases, and much more. In a group setting open to questions and discussion, each participant will receive Coralie’s perspective on his/her portfolio, help structuring and sequencing a story through images, and valuable advice on all things editorial.
Coralie Kraft has been a photo editor at The New Yorker since 2018, where she commissions original photography for the weekly print magazine. Previously, she managed editorial operations at LensCulture and worked as a fine art researcher at Harvard and various private companies. Her writing on photography and visual media has appeared in The New Yorker, the New York Times, and NPR.
André Kertész, Homing Ship, New York 1944
A PHOTOGRAPHER’S PERSPECTIVE: Selected Topics in the History of Photography
with MARK STEINMETZ
A comprehensive course in six sessions, emphasizing the New York and Paris traditions. The format of the course will be lecture as well as interactive discussion. Held Sundays, 2-4pm EST, January 17 - February 21, 2021 Fee: $200; SOLD OUT
Contact us if you’re interested in future workshops like this info@thehumid.com
L: Irina Rozovsky; R: Mark Steinmetz
canceled due to Covid:
About About
TIM DAVIS
March 27-29, 2020
About About: How to create, wrangle, and communicate meaning in your photographic work.
Anyone can make one great photograph entirely by accident. So how do we understand what we’ve done as photographers? How do we create meaning and sensibility in our bodies of work? And how do we strategize in order to make our work more meaningful? The mental mechanisms of making a photograph are quite different from those of making a body of work. This workshop will involve a rigorous critique of ongoing projects and a discussion of strategies to understand how to build a body of work that you can describe, and that accurately describes you. Think of the workshop as an art project consultant, a space where your flowing cascade of images will be transformed— through critique and conversation —into a clear and communicative cocktail. In the course of the weekend new directions and pathways for the work will be understood and each participant will walk away with an artist’s statement that should at least provide inspiration and clarity. -T.D.
TIM DAVIS (born Blantyre, Malawi, 1969) is an artist, writer, and musician who lives in Tivoli, NY and teaches photography at Bard College. His latest project, I’m Looking Through You, will be published by Aperture in 2020. The Tang Museum at Skidmore College showed a large survey of recent work in photography, video, sound, sculpture and performance entitled “When We Are Dancing, I Get Ideas” in 2019. The catalog will be published in 2020. Tim lived in Athens as a child and is working on a new book revisiting his time there, tentatively titled “Normaltown." Tim’s website
Max Students: 12
Take a Leap
IRINA ROZOVSKY & MARK STEINMETZ
Feb 28 - March 1, 2020
Leap into new possibilities and come out for our second co-taught workshop at The Humid. Like the first time, this will be a rigorous weekend of critique, as we delve into your images and the intention that drives you. Borrowing from the experience of our own photographic practices, as well as our extended teaching backgrounds, you will receive two differing perspectives on your work, guidance and direction—as well as input from fellow participants. This workshop invites photographers of all levels interested in opening new paths in their work, developing their outlook, and shaping of a body of work. Limited to 12 students. A special leap year ceremony will be celebrated on Saturday, Feb 29th. -Irina & Mark Sold Out
Left: I. Rozovsky; Right: M. Steinmetz
Letters to the Editor
MATTHEW CONNORS & CURRAN HATLEBERG
November 15-17, 2019
This November The Humid hosted Matthew Connors and Curran Hatleberg, who are teaming up to teach Letters to the Editor. This workshop is a rare opportunity to share your images and ideas with two exciting photographers, who are also excellent teachers. Through group critique, editing and sequencing exercises, and by offering insight into their own approaches, Matt and Curran will help participants refine their process and give shape to a body of work. All photo related approaches and backgrounds are welcome. Sold Out
CURRAN HATLEBERG was born in Washington, DC in 1982. He received his MFA from Yale in 2010. Most recently, his work was featured in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and has been shown at MASS MoCA, Higher Pictures and Fraenkel Gallery. He is the recipient of a 2015 Magnum Emergency Fund grant and a 2014 Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship grant. His work has been published in Harpers, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vice and The Paris Review. Lost Coast, his first monograph, was released by TBW Books in fall 2016. Somewhere Someone, a collaborative artist book with Cynthia Daignault was released by Hassla Books in fall 2017. Curran has taught photography at numerous institutions, including Yale University and Cooper Union. He lives in Baltimore, MD. www.curranhatleberg.com
MATTHEW CONNORS’s photographs have been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague and Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York. His monograph Fire in Cairo (SPBH Editions) was awarded the 2016 ICP Infinity Award for best artist book. He has also been awarded the MacDowell Colony Fellowship, the Lightwork Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellowship. He received a BA in English Literature from the University of Chicago and a MFA in Photography from Yale University. He has taught in the Image Text Ithaca MFA Program, the Yale Photography MFA Program and in the Photography Department at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design where he has been a Professor since 2004. www.matthewconnors.com
The Higher Truths of Darkroom Printing
MARK STEINMETZ
August 9-11, 2019
This workshop is designed to help students refine their black and white printing practice and will include hands on printing in Mark Steinmetz's darkroom, as well as critique and technical discussion at The Humid studio space nearby. We will meet on Friday evening to introduce ourselves and our work, look at and discuss black and white negatives and proper film development, and to prepare for Saturday's guided printing session. On Sunday we will flatten, spot, and discuss the prints. Students are expected to have darkroom experience; this is not an introductory course. Paper and chemistry provided (unless the student has a particular preference for paper). Limited to 3 students. Sold Out
Night Skies and Some Fireflies
BARBARA BOSWORTH
May 24 - 26, 2019
Image from Barbara Bosworth’s The Heavens
Join Barbara Bosworth for an extraordinary weekend exploring the tradition and practice of making photographs at night. Following on the wings of her most recent monograph The Heavens (Radius Books), Barbara will share with workshop students her poetic approach to the natural world and our celestial environment. Students will receive feedback on their work, learn about artistic precedents, and glimpse into Barbara's rich practice. On Saturday evening, the class will set off on a photographic field trip, with dark skies and fireflies in attendance. It will surely be magical.
On Friday, May 24 Barbara will give a public artist talk, joined by Athens’ own Andrew Zawacki who will contribute a poetry reading. A pop-up book display by Dust Collective will also be present to show their line of handmade photo books.
Tuition: $400; $300 for students & recent grads
Andrew Zawacki is the author of five poetry books: Unsun : f/11, due next year from Coach House; Videotape (Counterpath, 2013); Petals of Zero Petals of One (Talisman House, 2009); Anabranch (Wesleyan, 2004); and By Reason of Breakings (Georgia, 2002). A former Rhodes Scholar and Fulbright Scholar, he earned his doctorate from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His work has appeared in Poems for Political Disaster, Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries, Great American Prose Poems, The Eloquent Poem, and other anthologies, as well as magazines such as The New Yorker, The Nation, and The New Republic. His translations of two poetry books by Sébastien Smirou, See About (La Presse / Fence, 2017) and My Lorenzo (Burning Deck, 2012), have earned him a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, a French Voices Grant, and a grant from the Centre National du Livre. He teaches at the University of Georgia.
Andrew will join Barbara for a poetry reading as part of her artist lecture on Friday evening, May 23rd.
Barbara Bosworth is a photographer whose large-format images explore both overt and subtle relationships between humans and the rest of the natural world. Whether chronicling the efforts of hunters or bird banders or evoking the seasonal changes that transform mountains and meadows, Bosworth’s caring attention to the world around her results in images that similarly inspire viewers to look closely. Her single images display a generous attention to small facts, while her large-scale triptychs reveal a panoramic awareness, one that lets viewers glimpse relationships between frames across a wide field.
Bosworth’s publications include The Heavens (Radius Books, 2018); The Meadow (Radius Books, 2015); Natural Histories (Radius Books, 2013); Trees: National Champions (M.I.T. Press, 2005); and Chasing the Light (Nightwood Press, 2002). Bosworth’s work has been exhibited at The Smithsonian American Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Denver Art Museum, Peabody Essex Museum, and many others. A recipient of multiple fellowships and grants, Bosworth’s awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and a Kittredge Foundation Grant. Her work is represented in major collections including Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Center for Creative Photography, Cleveland Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Modern Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, Princeton Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Smithsonian American Art Museum. Bosworth was born in Novelty, Ohio and currently lives in Massachusetts. She is Professor of Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Learn more about Barbara in this video made by SF MOMA
Position & Condition
IRINA ROZOVSKY & MARK STEINMETZ
March 1-3, 2019
Photographers are constantly seeking to refine their stance and position towards their subject, and to understand the conditions of the shifting world they are portraying. Among the many questions that surface during critique, this workshop will consider one’s chosen subject matter and relationship to it. Teaching together for the first time, Mark and Irina will look closely at student work and share their own. They will offer guidance and direction, pulling from the experience of their own practice. The work of other photographers will be shown and discussed. This workshop invites students of all levels interested in developing their voice and outlook, with serious consideration towards the shaping of a body of work. Limited to 12 students.
Left: Irina Rozovsky; Right: Mark Steinmetz
Portfolio Review
ADAM PAPE, ROSE M. CROMWELL, NELSON CHAN
February 23, 2019
Share your work in The Humid’s first portfolio review with Rose Marie Cromwell, Adam Pape, and Nelson Chan—three professional, award winning photographers involved in book publishing, editorial assignments, exhibiting, and photography education (full bios below). This is an invaluable chance to receive artistic feedback and professional advice in three personal, one-on-one conversations. Participants of all levels are invited to show prints, books, and/or digital formats for viewing. Adam, Rose, and Nelson are eager to see developing projects, as well as those ready for publication and will give guidance from personal experience and successes. The reviews will be held at The Humid in Athens, GA. Come back in the evening for a free talk by the artists, a book signing of their new monographs, and a reception. Fee: $90 for three 25 minute reviews; $75 for students
Adam Pape (Brooklyn)
Adam is a photographer residing in Brooklyn. His first monograph Dyckman Haze was published by Mack in 2018. Adam received his MFA from Yale University and is a visiting lecturer in photography at Suny Purchase, New York. He has been commissioned to create vast photographic stories for The New Yorker and The Fader.
Rose Marie Cromwell (Miami)
Rose is a Miami based photographer whose first monograph El Libro Supremo de la Surte (The Supreme Book of Luck) was released to great acclaim in 2018 by TIS books and surmises 10 years of work made in Cuba. Rose is frequently commissioned by The New York Times, California Sunday Magazine, Harpers, Oxford American, The New Yorker, and Vice, among others. She is the winner of a Getty Reportage Grant and a Fulbright Scholar.
Nelson Chan (New York City)
www.nelsonchanphotography.com
Nelson is a graduate of the Hartford Art School MFA program and co-founder of the art book publishing house TIS books. He is also Production Manager at Aperture Foundation and oversees the printing of the foundation's book program. Rooted in his own experience of growing up between the United States and Hong Kong, Chan's own photographic work is based around the immigrant experience viewed through explorations of diaspora, (be)longing, labor, and sacrifice.
To Photograph the World
MIKE SMITH & BALDWIN LEE
October 12-14, 2018
I have been thinking over all I learned and the fun I had with a smile on my face. The atmosphere was fresh and relaxed. I drove away invigorated. Thank you for opening your place to us and sharing your insights. You have given the photographic community a comfortable place to find guidance, creativity, and encouragement. I’m looking forward to what you all have in store for us. Tamara Reynolds
Not only was the workshop helpful in terms of my photography, it helped me to center and steady myself. I head back to work, refreshed and ready to help others. Karen Bullock
I enjoyed the informal atmosphere and the camaraderie. The feedback during the crits was honest and constructive and I have plenty to consider as I pursue my projects. The incorporation of the talk by Mike and Baldwin into the weekend was an added bonus - it's always good to hear the stories behind the images and hear about how a career in photography develops. Mark Caceres
About the workshop: The Humid’s debut workshop To Photograph the World is co-taught by the esteemed photographers of the American south, Mike Smith and Baldwin Lee. Brilliant and energetic life-long teachers, Mike and Baldwin will bring unique perspectives to each student’s work and help give direction and clarity in the shaping of each body of work. The format of the workshop is personal and intensive, within a comfortable, casual environment. This is a rare opportunity to work closely with two treasured practitioners who have made significant contributions to the tradition of the lyrical documentary.
MIKE SMITH
Mike has been photographing in East Tennessee for nearly 40 years and is currently Professor Emeritus of East Tennessee State University. He is the author of the acclaimed book, You’re Not from Around Here and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2001) and a United States Arts Lowe Fellowship (2011). His work is in numerous major collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the San Francisco Museum of Art. Mike has representation in New York with the Yancey Richardson Gallery and in Atlanta with Jackson Fine Art.
BALDWIN LEE
Baldwin is the recipient of many awards including two National Endowment for the Arts fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His work in is many collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the Yale University Art Gallery. He is a Professor Emeritus at The University of Tennessee-Knoxville and has studied with photographic masters Minor White and Walker Evans, and had been an assistant to Evans.
