Presented by: Eugene Richards

This workshop is for advanced students and professional photographers wishing to become more comfortable and proficient photographing people. Gene will begin by showing the work of accomplished journalistic and art photographers. Then he will discuss the processes and difficulties encountered in the creation of his own photography and films. He will individually critique your photographs, your ways of seeing, the content of your images. There will be daily shooting assignments meant to challenge you and encourage new perspectives. You will learn how to better interact with people, how to persevere in unfamiliar social situations, how to focus your efforts in order to create stronger, more personally yours, more individualistic images. We will also examine the ethics, rights, and restraints of working as a photographer; the research and editing processes; and, as time permits, ways to prepare your work for exhibition and publication.

Eugene is an editorial photographer, teacher, filmmaker and the author of fifteen books. These include Dorchester Days, Exploding Into Life, Cocaine True, Cocaine Blue, Stepping Through the Ashes, and The Fat Baby. Most recent are The Blue Room, a study of the abandoned and forgotten houses of rural America, and A Procession of Them, a documentation of the plight of the world’s institutionalized mentally disabled. Richards has completed assignments for Life, the New York Times Magazine, National Geographic and Time; he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship, the W. Eugene Smith Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Lifetime Achievement Journalism Award.