Workshops
There’s a movie inside every photograph. You just have to give it more than a passing glance.
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Every moment has a past, present, and future. With photography we only get the present. Or can we have it all? Will the little girl ever catch up with her friends? It seems they are related, but are they even friends? Does she need help or is she holding her hand out to someone else? Looking at photographs long enough enables all sorts of possibilities. In this workshop, we will be creating storylines housed inside single pictures with the aim of building a consistent way of seeing. Will you be focusing on details to tell universal truths? Will you be creating dramatic tension by excluding vital information? Or finding Edward Hopper loners at the end of long empty bars? When there’s a story to tell, a single photograph can dim the lights and part the classic red velvet curtains just like that. Join us and let them open to your way of seeing the world through Photography as Cinema. No popcorn. Just a lot of astonishing stories and awesome reviews.
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Instructor: Arno Rafael Minkkinen
Arno Rafael Minkkinen, a former Madison Avenue copywriter, has compiled to date one of the longest running, nonstop self-portrait bodies of work in the photographic history of the genre. The driving force behind the 55-year journey since 1969 has been to avoid repetition by keeping each picture, while always the same (self-portraits without an ounce of manipulation), always decidedly different. Guggenheim fellow, Lucie Award winner, and Pro Finlandia medalist, it’s Minkkinen’s teaching record that holds equal significance for him. SPE Honored Educator both regionally and nationally, that commitment includes positions at all levels starting with teaching assistant at RISD, assistant professor at MIT, visiting artist at Philadelphia College of Art, and currently Emeritus Professor at UMass Lowell and docent at Aalto University in Helsinki. Other teaching stints have included international higher education institutions in Norway, France, Switzerland, and Germany, not to mention countless workshops from Brazil to Tuscany to Beijing and from Alaska to Florida, Arizona to Maine. Solo exhibitions worldwide number well over 100, twice that with group shows. With eight monographs, and seven gallery representations worldwide—Brussels, Stockholm, Berlin, Paris, Torino, Beijing, Boston, and New York—Minkkinen is as seriously engaged now with filmmaking as he is with his photography. A feature length screenplay he has written is in development with the Inland Film Company in Helsinki, Finland.
