Cut, Fold, Scratch: How To Lovingly Degrade And Manipulate Your Photographs

This workshop will guide participants as they transform their photographs through a process of degradation and manipulation. 

Artists Jessica Thalmann will lead this workshop which is designed for photographers, collage and interdisciplinary artists wishing to explore the boundaries between these mediums.  She will lecture on work exploring photo-based interventions such as Letha Wilson, Matthew Brandt, Marco Breuer, Susy Oliviera and others. Then, Thalmann will guide participants through the creation of a small body of work using archival imagery either from family photo albums, public archives, the internet etc…Techniques covered in a hands-on manner include: paper folding techniques, emulsion scratching and rubbing, and other destructive techniques. The class culminates in a final critique where participants learn to critically examine their peers alongside their own work.