Join HCP instructors Sanne De Wilde, Tom Griggs, and Jake Eshelman on Thursday, April 3, between 6:00-7:30 pm CST as they present their person work and discuss contemporary documentary photography approaches.
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Traditional documentary photography can often present as being story-based, direct, informative, and even lacking subtlety, but it doesn’t have to. Developing interesting and thought-provoking photographic work requires cracking the code of concept and form: the place where idea, approach, aesthetics and visual language successfully integrate.
In this webinar, HCP Instructors Sanne De Wilde, Tom Griggs, and Jake Eshelman will present their personal work and review strategies that transcend traditional modes of documentary image making. A panel led by Natan Dvir will discuss contemporary approaches to creating nuanced and informed bodies of work, establishing relationships and earning trust, and developing a visual style within documentary photography.
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Sanne De Wilde is a visual storyteller working within the mediums of photography, film, installation and painting examinng genetics, identity, and perception. De Wilde's work has been published in international magazines including The Guardian, New Yorker, Le Monde, CNN, and Vogue. Her series have been exhibited extensively at Rencontres d’Arles, Voies OFF, Tribeca Film Festival, Circulations, Lagos Photo, and Lodz Fotofestiwal to name a few.
Tom Griggs is a photographer, editor, educator, writer and curator living between Colombia and Mexico since 2010. Griggs has exhibited his photographs internationally including exhibitions in New York, Berlin, London, Arles, Madrid and Belfast. His work can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Gallery, Centro de la Imagen in Mexico City, Stanford University, and Harvard University, among others.
Jake Eshelman is a photo-based artist and visual researcher exploring the complex relationships between people, our environment, and everyone we share it with. His work creates opportunities to address anthropocentrism and (re)consider our ecological kinships. Eshelman has exhibited work internationally, most notably at Vantaa Art Museum Artsi in Helsinki, Finland; Contemporary Calgary in Alberta, Canada; and Houston Center for Photography in Houston, TX.