ELINOR CARUCCI

“FINDING INTIMACY”

 During this intensive workshop, participants will be guided in the conception and realization of a personal photo project about Intimacy.

We can look inward and into our own lives, our bodies or our intimate experiences, or those of our family and friends. Intimacy can be found everywhere: in the streets, in the bus or train, in a bar or park. We can find intimacy in landscapes and urban-scapes: in how a place feels, in how we feel or think, in any given day, in any given place.
By photographing the people and places with whom they are acquainted, or strangers, artists are able to communicate a profound level of understanding through their images.

This workshop will encourage students to find intimacy, to use this intimacy they find in order to investigate, comment on, and reveal the spaces and people their lives brings them to.

This workshop enables students to enhance their vision and style while delving deeper into the emotions and nuances of their lives and what is around them, their surroundings, the people and places they choose to go to and observe, any experience that they encounter.
The workshop’s main objective is to provide students with a technical and conceptual fluency that they may apply within their own practice.

Students’ portfolios will be discussed and each student will receive personalized feedback and exercises for improvement.
The work of photographers such as Nan Goldin, Larry Sultan, LaToya Ruby Frazier and others will be discussed, deconstructing a variety of examples to further the student’s own work.

Pre-assignment; "Love Story"

For the pre-assignment, please create a series of 8 to 10 images, whose title is: Love Story (or any other title you see fit). You can interpret this in any way you wish; perhaps create a series of self-portraits, focus on one person, a couple or a family, an event or a place that holds some significance for you. Your story may be portrayed through any genre that feels right (portraiture, landscape or still life… your conceptual approach is up to you). You might even create a series addressing the ‘lack-of-love story’ ‘recovering from a love story’ ‘remembering a love story’. The images in your story can be staged/performed or found. The love you describe is up to you; romantic love, familial love, parental love, platonic love, obsessive love, unrequited love. It can be anything as long as it involves love and photography!

This work can be shown in digital form.