Photography, Place, and Meaning: Creative Practice and Geography with Morgain Bailey & Nicole White (Online Learning – Six Sessions)

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Online Learning Class

This six-week online workshop that explores how photography can be used to investigate, interpret and construct meaning around place. Rather than approaching place simply as a subject to document, we will consider how our experiences and observations shape the way that we understand and photograph the world around us.

Throughout the workshop, we will contemplate ideas such as way-finding, place-making and mapping, along with the emotional geography of place. We will consider how photographs describe a location while also revealing our individual relationships to it. How do we navigate and understand a place with photography? What makes a collection of photographs feel connected to a particular place, experience, or way of seeing?

The workshop is designed for photographers of all levels and will combine weekly photographic assignments, thoughtful and supportive group critiques, and examples from contemporary and historical photographic practices. Assignments will encourage both observation and experimentation while helping participants develop a cohesive body of work.

This course is strictly limited to 12 students.

Morgain Bailey is a visual artist who is passionate about documentary landscape, personal poetics and environmental portraiture. Originally from San Francisco, she now makes her home in northeastern Maine. She has a BFA from The San Francisco Art Institute and has exhibited her work in venues across the United States. Her work is held in multiple private collections. She enjoys creating long-term projects and teaching photography workshops. In her spare time she loves reading about photography theory and adventuring in the great outdoors.

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Nicole White is an artist working predominantly with photography. Through specific narratives, she examines built environments to reveal material change across different timescales, highlighting the tenuous conditions that shape our existence.

White has exhibited most recently at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts, Chung24 Gallery in San Francisco, and TILT Institute for the Contemporary Image in Philadelphia. Her work was published in recent issues of Der Grief and JRNL. In 2024, she was included in the +KGP publication, Of Covid and produced an artist book with National Monument Press, entitled Dream House. White’s collaborative 2021 publication, Rolls & Tubes: A History of Photography, is in the collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, and the New Orleans Museum of Art, among others. She lives in the Bay Area where she is a Professor of Art at Diablo Valley College.

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Details

• 6 Sessions
• Dates: Thursdays, February 4 – March 11, 10 am – 12 pm Pacific
• Enrollment Limit: 12 students
• Skill/Experience Level: Open to all levels
• Tuition: $875 (Become a Member today and received up to 20% off!)
• Location: Online

A details email complete with the Zoom link will be sent to the attendees prior to the start date. If you have additional questions please email info@lacphoto.org.

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