Matthew Connors, Fire in Cairo, 2015
“Even the most elevated plateau is less interesting than a mountain.”
—Wayne C. Booth, The Rhetoric of Fiction
Join Matthew Connors for a two-day workshop on the process of transforming existing collections of photographs into publishable book dummies. Emphasis will be placed on the process of editing and sequencing images, incorporating text, and visualizing the final book as an object. Connors will present various literary and film techniques—voice, unreliability, plot progression, narrative structure, etc.—and discuss how they can inform the anatomy of a photobook. Numerous examples will be presented as a means of thinking about diverse approaches to structuring books. He will also show a collection of photobook dummies and discuss their evolution from rough-hewn objects to published books. Material considerations and publishing models will also be explored throughout the workshop.
Participants will be required to submit high-resolution image files in advance of the workshop and be prepared to present their work to the group. Their presentations will be the basis for individualized editing/sequencing sessions that will lead to the creation of basic dummies with the help of an InDesign assistant. The aim is for participants to emerge from the workshop with a working methodology for structuring their books.
Lunch and light refreshments will be served both days. Please contact Aperture staff at education@aperture.org with any dietary restrictions at least one week before the start of the workshop.
Matthew Connors (b. 1976, Port Washington, New York) lives and works in both Boston and Brooklyn. His work has been exhibited in galleries and museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague; and the Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York. He has received the MacDowell Colony Fellowship, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellowship, the William Hicks Faculty Fellowship from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, and the Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship from the Yale School of Art. Most recently he was awarded the 2016 ICP Infinity Award for his publication Fire in Cairo, which was also on the shortlist for the 2015 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation First PhotoBook Awards.
He received a BA in English literature from the University of Chicago and an MFA in photography from Yale University. Since 2004 he has been teaching at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design in Boston, where he is currently the chair of the photography department.
Tuition: $500 ($450 for currently enrolled photography students and Aperture Members at the $250 level and above)
Registration ends on Wednesday, November 9
Contact education@aperture.org with any questions.
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Aperture workshops are intended for adults 18 years or older.
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Lost, Stolen, or Damaged Equipment, Books, Prints Etc.
Please act responsibly when using any equipment provided by Aperture or when in the presence of books, prints etc. belonging to other participants or the instructor(s). We recommend that refreshments be kept at a safe distance from all such objects.
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