Destination Workshops. Seeing Revere Beach with Stella Johnson.

Seeing Revere Beach with Stella Johnson - July 29th to 31st, 2022

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Join Stella Johnson and Leica Akademie USA, as we explore America’s First Public Beach, the three-mile-long Revere Beach, renowned for its’ local cast of characters lounging on the oldest boardwalk in the US.
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Boston. MA
$899.99

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Overview:

Join Stella Johnson as we explore America’s First Public Beach, the three-mile-long Revere Beach, renowned for its’ local cast of characters lounging on the oldest boardwalk in the US and also renowned for the best ‘lobsta’ rolls at Kelly’s. It is 30-minutes outside of Boston but another world of life and light. This is a fantastic beach to explore if you like to swim and sunbathe and one of the best to photograph. Walking up and down the boardwalk is one of life’s greatest pleasures. Add that to looking for and making images and it is fantastic!

There will be hands-on, in-the-moment instruction, as well as daily group critiques. We will help you photograph the visual cacophony of beach life by making dynamic compositions that explode with light, shadow, and color and help you to shape those images into a compelling body of work through selection and sequence.

Topics covered:

  • Introduction to Stella’s photographic approach
  • Light and Moment
  • Shape and Form
  • Waiting, Looking, Turning Around
  • Arriving before and staying until after the action or event
  • Pre-visualizing the result
  • Sequencing importance
  • The Art of Editing

A weekend with Stella will recalibrate your ability to photograph the visual cacophony of daily life around you wherever you are, by making dynamic compositions that explode with light, shadow, and color. Our goal will be to help you tell a story with the moments found in Revere Beach.

Schedule: July 29th – 31st , 2022
(Time Frames are not consecutive)

Friday, July 29th ---  10:00a - 8:00p -  (Beach day)
10a - 1p Lecture / 1:30p - 4p Independent / 4p-8p Group / 8p (Dinner optional w/ Stella)

Saturday, July 30th --- 10:00a -8:00p -  (Beach day)
10a - 1p Lecture / 1:30p - 4p Independent / 4p-8p Group / 8p (Dinner optional w/ Stella)

Sunday, July 31st --- 10:00a - 8:00p (Leica Store Boston)
10a - 1p Lecture @Leica Store Boston / 1p - 2p Lunch provided by Leica/ 4p-8p Group @Beach )

 

Who should take this workshop?

This workshop is open to all levels of photographers who are keen to grow their skill set.

*A Leica Camera is not required for this class.  Students must have a basic or intermediate operational knowledge of their camera.  An assortment of Leica Cameras will be available on loan to try out.

Attendance is strictly limited to 10 students max, so be sure to sign up at your earliest opportunity.

Fee: $899.99

AT-A-GLANCE

     

    Schedule: July 29th – 31st , 2022


    Friday– 7 a.m.-8 p.m. (Beach)
    Saturday –10 a.m.-5 p.m. (Beach)
    Sunday –10 a.m.-4 p.m. (Leica Store Boston)

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INSTRUCTOR

Stella Johnson is a photographer and educator known for her passionate and honest documentary projects. She received a Core Fulbright Scholar Grant to photograph in Mexico in 2003, and Fulbright Specialist grants to teach in Mexico in 2006 and in Colombia in 2018.

The University of Maine Press published her first monograph, Al Sol: Photographs from Mexico, Cameroon, and Nicaragua in 2008.  ZOI, her second monograph, was published in 2018 by Wild Greek Press.

A dedicated educator, Johnson holds teaching positions at Boston University and Lesley University College of Art and Design. She also teaches workshops in Greece, Cuba, Colombia, and Mexico. Johnson holds a BFA from The San Francisco Art Institute and an MS in Journalism from Boston University.

Johnson’s photographs have been widely exhibited in the United States and internationally. Her work is held in public collections including The DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, The Haggerty Museum of Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Portland Museum of Art, and The Southeast Museum of Photography, among others.

She was a 2018 and 2013 finalist for the Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship, Photolucida Critical Mass Top 50, twice, and a nominee for the Boston Foundation’s Brother Thomas Fellowship. Johnson’s work has received numerous honors including a New England Foundation for the Arts Cultural Collaborative Artist-in-Residence Grant and Julia Margaret Cameron Award.

www.stellajohnson.com

 

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