About About

TIM DAVIS

March 27 - 29, 2020

About About: How to create, wrangle, and communicate meaning in your photographic work.

Anyone can make one great photograph entirely by accident.  So how do we understand what we’ve done as photographers? How do we create meaning and sensibility in our bodies of work? And how do we strategize in order to make our work more meaningful? The mental mechanisms of making a photograph are quite different from those of making a body of work. This workshop will involve a rigorous critique of ongoing projects and a discussion of strategies to understand how to build a body of work that you can describe, and that accurately describes you. Think of the workshop as an art project consultant, a space where your flowing cascade of images will be transformed— through critique and conversation —into a clear and communicative cocktail. In the course of the weekend new directions and pathways for the work will be understood and each participant will walk away with an artist’s statement that should at least provide inspiration and clarity. -T.D.

Max Students: 12 Tuition: $400 ($350 for currently enrolled students & recent grads)

Cancellation policy: Full refund (minus credit card fees) if you cancel 30 days before workshop; 50% refund if you cancel 15 days before workshop

TIM DAVIS (born Blantyre, Malawi, 1969) is an artist, writer, and musician who lives in Tivoli, NY and teaches photography at Bard College. His latest project, I’m Looking Through You, will be published by Aperture in 2020. The Tang Museum at Skidmore College showed a large survey of recent work in photography, video, sound, sculpture and performance entitled “When We Are Dancing, I Get Ideas” in 2019. The catalog will be published in 2020. Tim lived in Athens as a child and is working on a new book revisiting his time there, tentatively titled “Normaltown." Tim’s website