Archive for February, 2018

OUR CUBA BOOK: BACK IN PRINT!

February 27, 2018

WORKSHOP NEWS

ONLY A FEW SPOTS LEFT: FINDING YOUR VISION: BOWEN ISLAND, CANADA: MAY 19-20, 2018. Find out more about the Fotofilmic weekend workshop here, including how to enroll online.  APPLICATION DEADLINE: APRIL 20, 2018.

DUE TO A LAST-MINUTE CANCELLATION, there’s now a space left in the five-day FINDING YOUR VISION: OSLO WORKSHOP.  Please get your applications in soonest. For emerging photographers under 40 in Norway, there is also a tuition-free scholarship available.  See below for details. Deadline: Monday, March 12.

TWO SPOTS LEFT: ART OF EDITING: STOCKHOLM at Fotografiska, Friday June 8-Sunday June 10, 2018.  Limited to only 14 photographers. Find out more about the workshop here, including how to enroll online.

LAST 2018 WORKSHOP NOW OPEN FOR APPLICATIONS: NYC IN OCTOBER

ART OF EDITING: NYC 2018: Thursday October 18-Monday, Oct. 22, 2018. Limited to only 12 photographers.

Do you know how to listen to your photographs—including how they talk to one another—in order to select and sequence your work? Learn the challenging art of selecting and sequencing your photographs in this five-day intensive workshop in New York City. This workshop is open to both serious amateurs as well as seasoned photographers who may be working on a long-term project or book. This intimate workshop is limited to 12 photographers.

HOW TO APPLY: Any former Webb Workshop student doesn’t need to formally apply by sending jpgs. Everyone else needs to email 10 small jpgs (1080 pixels on longest side, 72 dpi) from a project, an event, or recent trip to Alex and Rebecca: webbnorriswebb@gmail.com. Additionally we need a short bio (100-word limit), and short note about why you’d like to take this workshop (100-word limit).  Email Mark Davis at Webb Workshops if  you have any questions: webbnorriswebbworkshops@gmail.com

EARLY ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION (for former Webb Workshop students and international students): Monday, March 26, 2018

ENROLLMENT CLOSES: MONDAY, MAY 12, 2018, or whenever workshop fills.

TUITION: $1700

NEWS: EXHIBITIONS/TALKS/BOOK SIGNINGS

Friday, April 6, 4-5pm, Radius Booth, AIPAD, NYC. The Webbs will be signing copies of Violet Isle.  For those who can’t attend the signing, you can contact Radius Books to reserve your signed copy and pick it up another time during AIPAD. Email: orders@radiusbooks.org

At AIPAD, RADIUS BOOKS will also be offering the last copies of the Violet Isle limited edition, which includes two small prints, one of Alex’s and one of Rebecca’s ($200, ed. of 100). If you wish, you can reserve your limited edition ahead of time, and pick up at AIPAD.  Email: orders@radiusbooks.org

Friday, April 20th, Radius Books offices, Santa Fe, NM, book signing following by Webbs’ joint talk, “On Cuba and Collaboration” from 6-8pm

THRU APRIL 15, ETLA, MEXICO: La Calle exhibition at El Centro de las Artes de San Agustin (CASA), Etla, Mexico, curated by the Televisa Foundation.

APRIL 17, DENVER: Anderman Photograph Lecture: Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, Denver Art Museum, Hamilton Building, 7-8:30pm. Link: https://denverartmuseum.org/calendar/anderman-photography-lecture-alex-webb-rebecca-norris-webb

APRIL 20, SANTA FE: On Cuba and Collaboration: The Photographs of Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, slide talk followed by a book signing at Radius Books, Santa Fe, 6-8pm. This will also be the opening of the Webb’s Violet Isle exhibition at Radius.

APRIL 26, PACHUCA, MEXICO: Lecture by Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, FINI Photography Festival, Pachuca, Hidalgo, Mexico. La Calle exhibition, curated by the Televisa Foundation, opens on April 27 at the festival.

 

RECENTLY: WORKSHOPS, EXHIBITIONS

February 2, 2018

 

@Alex Webb, Arcahaie, Haiti; Rebecca Norris Webb, Stained Glass, both from Slant Rhymes.

 

APPLICATIONS OPENING THURSDAY, MARCH 1, 2018: ART OF EDITING: NYC 2018: Thursday October 18-Monday, Oct. 22, 2018

Do you know how to listen to your photographs—including how they talk to one another—in order to select and sequence your work? Learn the challenging ART OF EDITING and sequencing your photographs in this five-day intensive workshop in New York City. This workshop is open to both serious amateurs as well as seasoned photographers who may be working on a long-term project or book. This intimate workshop is limited to 12 photographers.

HOW TO APPLY: Any former Webb Workshop student doesn’t need to formally apply by sending jpgs. Everyone else needs to email 10 small jpgs (1080 pixels on longest side, 72 dpi) from a project, an event, or recent trip to Alex and Rebecca: webbnorriswebb@gmail.com. Additionally we need a short bio (100-word limit), and short note about why you’d like to take this workshop (100-word limit).  Email Mark Davis at Webb Workshops if  you have any questions: webbnorriswebbworkshops@gmail.com

EARLY ACCEPTANCE NOTIFICATION (for former Webb Workshop students and international students): Monday, March 26, 2018

ENROLLMENT CLOSES: MONDAY, MAY 12, 2018, or whenever workshop fills.

TUITION: $1700

CLASS LIMIT: 12 students

OTHER WORKSHOPS: CANADA AND SWEDEN

FINDING YOUR VISION: BOWEN ISLAND, CANADA: MAY 19-20, 2018. Find out more about the Fotofilmic weekend workshop here, including how to enroll online.

ART OF EDITING: STOCKHOLMat Fotografiska, Friday June 8-Sunday June 10, 2018.  We expect this intimate workshop (14 students) to fill up quickly, so we encourage you to enroll online soonest by following this link, where you can also learn more about the workshop.

OSLO SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINE: FRIDAY MARCH 12, 2018

NEW SCHOLARSHIP: APPLICATIONS NOW OPEN for the  Bilder Nordic School of Photography  Scholarship for an emerging photographer to attend Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb’s Finding Your Vision workshop in Oslo this June. Applicants must be under 30, or a current student of photography, and based in Norway. This scholarship will be juried by David Chickey, publisher and creative director of Radius Books 

Learn more, including how to apply here.  DEADLINE: March 12, 2018

WAIT LIST ONLY

—WAIT LIST ONLY: FINDING YOUR VISION: OSLOJune 15-19, 2018.  Due to a cancellation there’s one spot left for this 5-day photographic workshop will be about finding your own unique vision of Oslo by using the camera to explore the city in a direct, spontaneous way.  Open to both serious amateurs and professionals alike, it is a workshop that will emphasize the development of your own personal way of seeing photographically.  This workshop will also be about learning how to edit your work intuitively, and will include personalized and immersive discussions about how to take your photography to the next level. This workshop also includes a one-on-one private portfolio review session.   LEARN MORE HERE, INCLUDING HOW TO APPLY ONLINE.

 

LA CALLE exhibition at El Centro de las Artes de San Agustin, Etla, Mexico, opens on Sunday, Feb. 18, curated by the Televisa Foundation.  Alex and Rebecca will attend the opening, which begins at 1pm, in the Galeria del Chalet.