Workshop | Documentary Photgoraphy: Identity, Family and Community Life

ADMISSION
$220

Online via Zoom
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After social media’s near-total commercialization of intimacy, how do we make meaningful photographs of our lives today? During this 8-week online workshop with Justin Langille, participants will create an original documentary photography project examining their identity, family or community. Participants will become well-versed in the social origins, practical skills, and social trajectories of documentary photography addressing selfhood and the personal. We will hone our capacity for long-term documentary image-making in our practices and cultivate the language necessary to connect our photographs to broader social dialogues. This workshop is for photographers interested in making a novel body of work only you could create.

Justin Langille (they/them) is a photographic artist based between Surrey, British Columbia and London, Ontario. Informed by a rural youth, experiences in outreach work, and social theory, Langille’s images observe changing relationships between people and the environment throughout Canada today. Inextricable from the places and ecologies where Langille dwells, their photographs help us realize how people and the fragile lands and waters we depend on for surval shape one another in new, complex ways amidst unfolding social and environmental crises. All of Yesterday’s Parties, Langille’s 2023 survey of balloon pollution, was generously supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Please note this is an 8-week-long online workshop.