IMAGE OF HOME: REIMAGINING FAMILIAR SPACES THROUGH PHOTOGRAPHY Photo Book Available
Ages 16-29
Spring 2020, Online
In this distance learning workshop, student fellows will use photography to explore the spaces, objects, people, and memories that make up their home. Assignments will place particular emphasis on still lives, exploring visual narratives through both found and constructed arrangements of readily available items. Fellows will be challenged to think conceptually about personal history and storytelling as they reflect and create with home interiors as the background to their compositions. Using cellphone cameras and an online platform, fellows will respond to artist examples (including photographs, short writings, and videos), photography prompts and exercises, and each other’s work. Fellows should expect to spend at least five hours per week on this workshop. Their images will be shared over the course of the workshop on the BYFA Instagram page, and ultimately on the program website and through a virtual group exhibition. Limited to 8 student fellows.
Chrissy Fitchett, a graduate of MICA, is a practicing photographer and Associate Director for Baltimore Youth Film Arts. Her work examines family structure, generational knowledge, and issues of political and social marginalization, such as forced migration and gender inequity. She is Associate Director of Baltimore Youth Film Arts.
