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Durham
Workshops
Workshops in Your Area
Consultations
Announcements – February 2008 Workshop and Summer
2008 LTP Institute in Durham
Workshop Examples
Past Workshops
Contact LTP
Durham
Workshops
Since 1992 the LTP staff has offered weeklong workshops in Durham,
North Carolina. These continuing workshops provide hands-on instruction
in simple black-and-white photography to prepare both experienced
photographers and novices to teach children in a clear and concise
way. Participants make photographs and write extensively as they
carry out several themed assignments. LTP’s Basic Workshops,
offered each summer, are ideal for small groups or individuals who
intend to carry out projects and wish to study with Wendy Ewald
and veteran Durham teachers. LTP also occasionally offers Special
Topics Workshops based on Ewald’s artistic projects, such
as “Black Self/White Self.”
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details of upcoming workshops in Durham
Workshops in
Your Area
To help your organization develop meaningful and sustainable projects
of its own, LTP staff members are available for workshops and consultations
in your area. Each workshop is designed after careful consideration
and discussion with constituents. The topics and themes are specifically
chosen for the needs and interests of the institutions and individuals
involved. A workshop usually lasts a week but can be timed to suit
the needs of a particular group of participants.
Consultations
LTP staff members can help you set clear goals and a practical strategy
to meet them. They are available to consult with you and your partners.
These consultation visits ideally involve at least one extensive
meeting with the primary individuals involved in planning a project.
The meeting allows the LTP staff to present the program and ask
specific questions about the needs of the community and the interrelationships
between the various institutions and agencies that might participate
in a project. The length of consultations is flexible but is usually
two days in duration.
Group Photo, Githens Middle School
Workshop Examples
Mount Sinai Medical Center’s Child
Life Program, New York City
The director of Mount Sinai Medical Center’s Child Life Program,
Diane Rode, requested that LTP devise a workshop for her twelve-person
staff of specialists who work with children with long-term and terminal
illnesses. Rode felt that her staff members should begin to envision
themselves as creators and as able collaborators with their patients.
In particular, she saw the use of simple cameras as an effective
tool for the children to explore issues related to their bodies,
their identities, and their relationships. LTP staff led the child
life specialists through a self-portrait assignment, an exploration
of the hospital community using large-format Polaroid cameras, and
an assignment to photograph the part of their body they felt was
their “best.” Based on a project Wendy Ewald had done
with elementary-school students titled “The Best Part of Me,”
the assignment prompted the specialists to confront the histories
their bodies carried and how they had come to assign value to different
features. They finished the week with plans to carry out specific
projects with their patients.
The Nature Conservancy, Photovoice Project,
Yunnan, China
With funding from the Ford Foundation, The Nature Conservancy (TNC)
sought to implement Photovoice, a yearlong photo-documentary project
with tribespeople living in remote villages in China’s rugged
and bio-diverse southwestern province. To deepen TNC scientists’
understanding of the region’s intricacies, TNC intended to
provide villagers with cameras to record their domestic and cultural
life and related ties with the natural world around them. LTP conducted
a two-day session around the basic principles of representation,
visual storytelling, and ethics for the Photovoice staff. LTP staff
members then accompanied Photovoice facilitators to field sites
and led workshops for villager participants that included a discussion
of how images tell stories in different contexts and a simple self-portrait
assignment. LTP was asked to return twice as the Photovoice project
was launched in two other sites along the China-Tibet border.
The Cultural Council, Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Oona Doherty, a documentarian employed at the Cultural Council,
raised funds to lead a trip to two towns in Mexico to document with
photography and oral history the families, friends, and neighbors
of Mexicans now living in Jackson Hole. In conjunction, Doherty
hosted an LTP workshop for fourteen educators and artists from the
local area, part of which was simulcast to twelve remote public
schools in Wyoming. Participants completed writing and photography
exercises based on the themes of self-portrait and dreams; created
an alphabet book out of photographs, in which they explored their
concepts of language using the theme “The Future”; and
created self-portraits based on the “Best Part of Me”
project. The workshop provided an important opportunity for educators
and artists to forge new relationships and inspired them to seek
ways to jointly pursue greater funding to initiate projects in their
own schools.
Past Workshops
South Carolina Arts Commission
Columbia, South Carolina (July 2001)
A two-day workshop for both educators and students working in the
Building Empathy Through Media Learning Initiative
The Corcoran Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C. (April 2002)
A four-day workshop with District of Columbia, Virginia, and Maryland
public school teachers
Arts and Education Council
Chattanooga, Tennessee (May 2002)
A two-day consultation with local educators, administrators, artists,
and philanthropists working within the local school system
Mount Sinai Medical Center’s Child
Life Program
New York City, New York (May 2002)
A weeklong workshop for twelve child life specialists working with
children who have long-term and terminal illnesses
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD)
Providence, Rhode Island (July 2002)
A Basic Workshop for twenty-five Rhode Island public school teachers
Artspace
New Haven, Connecticut (August 2002)
A five-day Basic Workshop for local community activists, artists,
and teachers working in a community youth center
The Nature Conservancy, Photovoice Project
Yunnan, China (May 2001-October 2002, three visits)
Workshops of varying length for The Nature Conservancy’s Photovoice
project staff members
The Cultural Council
Jackson Hole, Wyoming (December 2002)
A four-day workshop for fourteen teachers and artists working in
Wyoming and Idaho schools
Alvarez Bravo Photographic Center/Galeria
de la Luz
Oaxaca, Mexico (August 2003, 2004, 2005)
A five-day Basic Workshop based on the Durham model for participants
from Mexico and the United States
Contact LTP
For further workshop information, including costs, contact the LTP
office by sending an e-mail to ltpworkshops@duke.edu.
banner image:
Literacy Through Photography workshop, Durham, North Carolina, summer
2003. Photograph by Tia Maccari.
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