really got us thinking in a different way about our work and the assignments that we choose. his idea basically is to find your Big idea - whatever you feel most interested in or passionate about (it should be as broad or narrow as you want it) and then try and stir all of your work form this moment on in that direction. so that, after, hopefully, many a happy year of being a photographer, all of your individual projects will still be able to be A body of work (we're thinking books, galleries, life-time achievement awards...:)
the idea could be as simple as driving around America (Robert Frank), recording your favorite bar (as Anders Petersen did with Cafe Lehmitz), taking pictures of trees around the world (Stuart Franklin) to as complicated as recording migration (Sebastiao Salgado).
other important lesson: try an go multimedia!
won't get into details but, suffice to say, after coming into class on saturday morning, most of us hard-core multimedia opponents, we left on sunday evening rushing to find a store still open to buy sound recorders. and, I must say, taking pictures has only become more fun since then! how fun it will be once we start editing...well, I'll pull a Scarlett and think about it tomorrow. or, better yet, I'll think about it in december (that scarlett was not the smartest after all...)
anyways, for inspiration, here is an amazing multimedia site:
www.mediastorm.org
and then,on my way home from the workshop:
nice...very nice... I'm so happy that you're writing this, and makin' it a picture blog, not that your writing sucks, but I like picures more ;) (not just yours but generaly;)
ReplyDeleteand this taking pictures and recording sounds is great. your memory of the moment gets whole new dimension ;)) and then you can make short movies, jeeeei ;D
stay beautiful,
nariz