PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP with Torchlight Media + Waterfall Arts

August 30 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

$75.00 – $125.00

“A camera is a machine which requires some basic know-how, but it has no heart. Good technical skills are important in photography, as is understanding the light and knowing where to stand and how to compose. One can make technically sound photographs of buildings or other inanimate objects, but when the subject is a person, a special skillset is required.” —poster copy, McKenna and Her Camera: The Midcoast Maine Art Scene 1987-2002.

In this full-day photography workshop with Torchlight Media, we’ll spend time with the exhibition “McKenna and Her Camera” and begin to better understand Peggy McKenna’s particular brand of portraiture: the UNpotrait. We’ll discuss her career in journalism and the book of her photography alongside conversations with her Montville neighbors, Fireside Chats. We’ll discuss the storytelling aspect of working with human subjects, how to entice subjects to reveal themselves candidly, and how to create an honest image. Participants will then take to the streets and visit the studios of area artists to practice their artist studio portraiture and come away from the workshop with images to build or add to their portfolios.

Class Materials/Equipment: “The best camera is the one you have on you,” might apply to you and refer to your: smartphone, point-and-shoot digital camera, (Digital) SLR, or whatever you use to make images. Torchlight has a handful of digital cameras, SD cards, and tripods for participants to use. Participants are encouraged to bring their own camera, memory card, as well as laptops/tablets/hard drive (optional) for processing and editing images during the second half of the workshop.

About the Instructors: Erin Tokarz is a fine art and editorial photographer making images of builders and makers, artists and growers in and around Midcoast Maine. Her passion is photographing people doing their work. Inspired by 19th century photography and time working in the Photo Archives at the Penobscot Marine Museum in Searsport, Maine, Erin captures the kind of images she would love to find in her own family’s archives: She captures a lyric record of the skill, passion and spirit of those she photographs. Erin is a graduate of Maine Media’s professional Certificate in Visual Storytelling. Her images have appeared in American Craft Magazine, Black and White Magazine, Wooden Boat, Cape Air Magazine, Maine Biz Magazine and The Hand. Her work has been exhibited locally and nationally. Erin Lives in South Thomaston, Maine.

Photographer and multidisciplinary artist Chris Battaglia has been making photographs professionally for more than a decade. From corporate portraiture and headshots in New York to documentary travel and lifestyle work, his photographs have been published by Sierra Magazine, Canoe & Kayak, Taunton Press, with clients including Patagonia, King Arthur Baking Company, Island Institute, Maine Farmland Trust, and the Belfast Community Co-Op. Currently he runs the Youth Multimedia Mentorship program at Torchlight Media, a new community-based studio provides access to production tools and skills, builds long-term sustainability for local public media outlets, creates education and mentorship opportunities, and improves community connection through storytelling and events.

https://chrisbattaglia.info

Waterfall Arts

256 High Street

Belfast, ME 04915

(207)338-2222

waterfallarts.org