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Peru, her Peoples and her Past: An explorative travel class
By Santa Fe Workshop | Events/Workshops |
Apr 11, 2010
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Peru, her Peoples and her Past: An explorative travel class
Linda Connor and Adam L. Weintraub
July 5 - July 14, 2010
Nestled in the Andes of Peru at a little over 11,000 feet, Cusco retains powerful bonds with its indigenous past as the ancient capital of the Inca Empire. Today its festivals, markets, and everyday street life overflow with unrivaled ethnic and cultural pride. Similarly, the intersection of cultural subjectivity with one's personal perspective offer a unique moment to question a subject's relativity.
In this offering in the mountains of the Andes, we accommodate the sacred and the natural of Linda Connor with the intimacy and confrontation of Lonnie Graham by bringing them together for a master's master class of subject and photographer. Linda's luminous photographs contemplate the poetry and mystery of ancient sites and the timeless realms of the spirit. Lonnie's limitless portraits see each for whom s/he is and begs the viewer to recognize - however distant - our oneness with them. An investigation of culture and ritual through the eyes of two of photography's most prominent interpreters of the profane and the sacred, the natural and the artistic, the observer and the commentator.
In this workshop, we'll hub at Adam's family compound in central Cusco while spoke to sites of international interest - both sacred ruins and intimate towns. We'll find a common thread flung between distant history and contemporary life; or we’ll search for meaning in the distance between them. That's the beauty of photography and personal perspective - we can make our own vision relate if done effectively. And with this match-up of educators, purveyors of perspective and bold critics, we will be inspired and pushed to proffer our own unique portfolio of Peru, her Peoples and her past.
Instructor(s)
Linda Connor is an esteemed teacher in the Photography Department at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her photographs are in notable collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, International Center for Photography, and the Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Her work is published in monographs including: Visits; Luminance; and Spiral Journey. In 2008, Chronicle Books published Odyssey: the Photographs of Linda Connor. She is the recipient of numerous awards including National Endowment for the Arts grants and a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Joining Linda will be Pew Fellow Lonnie Graham. His extensive teaching experience includes his position as Professor of Visual and Integrative Arts at Pennsylvania State University and instructor of special programs at the Barnes Foundation in Marion Pennsylvania. Graham's artistic practice ranges from engaging portrait photography, to room-sized installations that recall familiar domestic spaces, to public art projects that integrate direct community impact into their artistic gestures. As a teacher and artist his work encourages recognition of shared experience, and the vital relationship between individual and community. Graham's work has been exhibited at the Andy Warhol Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pa., Brooklyn Museum of Art, N.Y., Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia. He has also been honored with a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. His work is included in the collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Adam L. Weintraub is a photographer based in Seattle. His Photo experience.net workshops combine inspiring artists which offer insight and collaboration in an intimate setting. Removed from Cusco's tourist section, his B&B plays host to the class, overlooking the Cusco valley. His first personal collection of photographs will be published in May 2010 titled, Vista Andina. He is currently coordinating efforts to create a permanent archive and catalogue of the famed Peruvian photographer, Martin Chambi. Adam is a past President of Blue Earth Alliance and is widely published, collected, hired and admired for his personal work.
Who Should Attend
Amateurs, Advanced Amateurs, and Professionals
Tuition & Fees
Includes tuition, all land transportation from Lima, all lodging ($450 single supplement additional), all breakfasts and lunches, first and last dinners. 12 participants maximum. All-inclusive extension for the three-day Festival de la Virgen del Carmen in colonial Paucartambo thru July 17th, $450. For more information, including a detailed itinerary, visit www.photoexperience.net or call (206) 817-4686.
Package Price: $3,100.00
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