June 22, 23, 29, & 30, 2024
In “Notes on the Cinematographer,” filmmaker Robert Bresson writes about wanting “To move people not with images meant to move us, but with relations of images that render them both alive and moving.” Over a period of two weekends with artist RAYMOND MEEKS, participants will spend time in the studio and in the field contemplating the transformative relationship between images to generate emotional power by way of proximity and sequence.
To create in this manner often involves setting the conditions for chance and choice. This can take place alongside one’s practice of photographing, throughout the process of printmaking and postproduction, as well as the various stages of editing and sequencing for a book or exhibition. To work in this way will require the making of physical prints and objects, allowing for interventions often inspired by happenstance. These chance operations will serve to create unexpected forms of relationships.
Throughout the first weekend, participants will critique and edit work while setting a structure and foundation for a book or exhibition project. Participants will have access to CPW’s Digital Media Lab throughout the following week, creating a time to refine and shape images based on the feedback received, as well as experiment with alternative possibilities based on new relationships informed by chance exercises. We will use the final weekend to further refine, relying more on “choice” to inform a final work.
WHAT TO BRING: Participants should bring a work-in-progress, ideally a set of small prints (no more than 100) along with digital access to additional images and archives, if appropriate.
SATURDAY, JUNE 22: 10:00 – 4:00 pm
SUNDAY JUNE 23: 10:00 – 4:00 pm
SATURDAY, JUNE 29: 10:00 – 4:00 pm
SUNDAY JUNE 30: 10:00 – 4:00 pm
WHERE: Students will meet at 25 Dederick Street, Kingston, NY.
TUITION: $850
CPW MEMBERS: $775
CLASS LIMIT: 10
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ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR:
RAYMOND MEEKS has been recognized for his books and pictures centered on memory and place, the way in which a landscape can shape an individual and, in the abstract, how a place possesses you in its absence. He is a 2020 recipient of a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in Photography and was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2022. Meeks was the sixth laureate of Immersion, a French-American photography commission sponsored by Fondation d’entreprise Hermès. An exhibitions drawn from this commission was show at the International Center of Photography in New York last Fall, and will travel to the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson in Paris in September 2024. The Inhabitants, a book Meeks made in collaboration with writer George Weld, was published by MACK last year.
Banner image © Raymond Meeks.
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