Cultural Landscape

As globalization alters the landscape daily, that which is unique passes into our memory. The challenge for photographers is documenting not only how the cultural landscape looks but also how it feels. Each inhabited environment reflects the economics, local tradition, religion and geography and is important to the photographer's work.

During this workshop we will explore how the photographer portrays the culture's impact upon the environment and the environment's impact upon the culture. We will look for ways of working that are true both to the reality of the culture observed and the photographer's artistic response to it. Additionally, we will examine the cultural and personal factors that make a photographer's vision and perception selective.

Class sessions will include slide lectures, group discussions, critiques, and a local field trip. All formats are welcome from digital to view cameras to plastic or pinhole cameras.

Two-Day Workshop:

Saturday & Sunday, 9am - 5pm

Oct 2 & 3

• Portfolio of previous work
• Camera(s) of choice

• $400

Craig Barber is a photographer who travels and works exclusively with the pinhole format and focuses on the cultural landscape. During the past 15 years he has focused his camera on Vietnam, Havana, and the Catskill region of New York State. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America and is represented in several prominent museum and private collections including the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Brooklyn Art Museum; the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; and among others. His recent book, Ghosts in the Landscape: Vietnam Revisited was published in 2006.

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