DOCUMENTARY -- Marc Asnin. The Documentary Project I: Finding a Visual Voice -- Fri, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm The documentary project seeks to tell a visual story, the art of portraying a consistent and gripping narrative through the visual medium. Knowing a compelling story is the first step in composing a documentary project, but being able to tell that story visually requires a continually refined eye and unique adaptability from the photographer. In this course veteran documentary photographer Marc Asnin, creator of the highly acclaimed thirty-year documentary project Uncle Charlie, will teach how you can turn a vision into a reality. This class will focus on knowing what makes a story compelling and how to clearly convey that story visually. Using some of his own work, from Skin Heads & the Klan, Gravediggers, Stickball, Winter Horse Racing and his epic project Uncle Charlie, Marc Asnin will highlight how to compose a compelling documentary project. Students are encouraged to bring their own work to class for critique from Marc.The Documentary Project II: Idea to Completion -- Sat, 9:30 am - 12:30 pm Picking up where Documentary Project I left off, Marc will take the students through the ins and outs of how to bring a personal photographic project to completion. From knowing when the project is done to understanding how to edit guaranteeing the strongest visual narrative, this course will highlight how a documentary project finds its form and emphasis. The course will cover techniques for acquiring funding, creative approaches to publishing, book design, and portfolio composition, knowing how to market your personal project to keep it thriving. Using his own work as an example, specifically his thirty-year project Uncle Charlie, Marc will show the best ways to have a project completed and published. Students are encouraged to bring their own work to class for critique. Aside from being one of the leading documentary photographers in the world, Marc Asnin is also a professional freelance editorial photographer, shooting for publications such as People, Business Week, Stern, Men’s Health, Reader’s Digest and others. In this class, Marc will show how a photographer can turn their personal vision and style into a marketable portfolio and achieve professional success. From knowing what editors are looking for to understanding how to hone and market your own strengths and skills, Marc’s course seeks to strengthen each photographer’s style and voice while making those unique skill-sets a force in the marketplace. For Marc, editorial photography is where artistic vision meets real world practicality and learning that dance is an art in and of itself.Portfolio Review: A Workshop & Critique with Marc Asnin -- Sat, 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Having worked as a professional freelance editorial photographer and a leading documentary photographer for the past thirty years, Marc Asnin is the unique position to offer insightful and experience based critique. Emphasizing the three main elements of an image, lighting, the moment, and composition, Marc will lead a workshop and critique class that will allow photographers to present their work to Marc and the class as a whole to receive invaluable critique. Having taught at the School of Visual Arts and the International Center for Photography, Marc knows how to lead a creative critique class. Students should bring a broad body of work to class.Documenting an Endangered New York Culture: The Fight for Willet’s Point -- Sun, 10:00 am - 3:00 pm Eminent domain is a highly divisive issue that has continually found increased resistance in the New York City area since the onslaught of gentrification. Displacing many immigrant families that have built the neighborhoods that are now a hot commodity, eminent domain has been used in the past and now seeks to remove another quintessential New York City subculture. The fight for Willet’s Point is a highly controversial and current issue in New York City. Highly acclaimed documentary photographer Marc Asnin will take students out with him to this highly contested community, where the rustic New York past is still visible, but fading fast. There the photographers will be given the assignment of photographing this community with the aim of bringing a compelling visual narrative to the situation. The class will meet out on location and spend several hours walking the streets of this community, photographing and interacting with shop owners, workers and regular patrons many of which have spent their entire lives there. Afterwards, all the students will return to the studio to edit their work and have it critiqued by Marc Asnin. |
Explore other classes: TRAVEL -- Rob Howard. | PORTRAITURE -- Ron Levine. See the schedule of classes: Workshop schedules |
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