Environmental Portraiture

- Establishing a collaborative relationship with subjects

  Shelby Lee Adams, Photography Classes and Workshops at Project Basho in Philadelphia PA
Brother Bradley Shell Firehandling, Shelby Lee Adams
Description:

Creating a degree of comfort for both photographer and subjects is vital in creating good images in a portrait session. This workshop, with an emphasis on photographing people in their own environment, will explore some of the important issues pertaining to the genre of portraiture: mainly how to establish a collaborative relationship with subjects.

Using 4x5 instant film, the instructor will demonstrate how he orients his shooting sessions. By viewing polaroid images from the actual session, the instructor will illustrate how different images evolved through collaboration with subjects.

Location lighting will also be covered for photographers working with film and digital media, as well as color and B&W. Students will work with location strobe light kits and mixed lighting. This workshop is open to anyone with a couple years experience in photography who is seeking creative tools, ideas for opening doors to photographing people, portrait and environmental lighting expertise, and direction in their work which can help reinvent their approach to subjects and ultimately, the very notion of portraiture.
Schedule:
One-weekend Workshop:
Saturday & Sunday, 9am - 5pm
November 13 & 14
Materials Needed:
  • Portfolio of up to 15 images for initial review
Prerequisite: Photographic Vision Digital I, or Photographic Vision I, or portfolio review
Class Fee:
  • $450
Enrollment: Limited to 8
Deadline: Nov 1
Instructor:

Shelby Lee Adams is the author of Appalachian Portraits (1993), Appalachian Legacy (1998), and Appalachian Lives (2003). He has received numerous awards and grants including, most recently, a Guggenheim Fellowhship. His photography has been collected and exhibited by over sixty national and international public museum collections and numerous private collections including the Musee De L’Elysee Lausanne, The National Gallery of Canada, Whitney Museum of American Art, and The Amon Carter Museum and many photographs reside within his people’s homes in Eastern Kentucky, among others. Adams divides his time between his home in the Berkshire Mountains of Western Massachusetts and Eastern Kentucky.