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FINDING YOUR VISION by Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris-Webb at Leica Gallery Chicago

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October 2026 - For those who choose to refine their craft and ask questions to improve their art. Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris-Webb offer an amazing Master Class
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DESCRIPTION: 

Do you know where you're going next with your photography or where it’s taking you? This intensive weekend workshop will help photographers begin to understand their own distinct way of seeing the world.  It will also help photographers figure out their next step photographically from deepening their own unique vision to the process of discovering and making a long-term project that they’re passionate about. This workshop is for passionate amateurs and professionals, for documentary photographers and fine art photographers, for photography students and seasoned photographers. It will be taught by Alex and Rebecca, a creative team who often edit projects and books together including their book and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, exhibition, Violet Isle: A Duet of Photographs from Cuba, and their books, Slant Rhymes and Brooklyn: The City Within.

Included in the workshop will be an editing exercise, either a photographing or editing assignment, as well as an optional pre-workshop assignment.

NOTE: This is a workshop for photographers who collaborate with the world, not for those who dramatically alter their photographs digitally.

AGENDA:

Saturday,  Oct. 10

3:00-4:00pm: PhotoPoetry: Slide talk and poetry reading with Rebecca Norris Webb, followed by a Q&A led by Alex Webb and a local poet

5:00-7:00pm: Slant Rhymes: Photographs of Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb exhibition reception

Optional Pre-Workshop Assignment, “The Light of Chicago,” due at 11pm

Sunday Oct. 11

10:00-10:15am: Workshop welcome, group portfolio review 

10:15-12:15pm: Group portfolio review: All participants will bring to the workshop 30 small prints

Size:4x6-inch or 5x7-inch prints (NOT digital files) that best represents who they are as a photographer, not work done to please an editor or client. Since there is limited space, please make sure the prints are small, and it’s fine if they are work prints or machine prints such as those made at your local CVS or Walgreen’s pharmacy.

12:15-12:30pm: Q&A with Alex & Rebecca

12:30-1:30pm: Lunch

1:30-3:00pm: Book presentation and group editing exercise 

3:00-3:30pm: Light of Chicago assignment review, Q&A 

3:30-5:30pm: For those who choose the Art of Editing (AOE) option, you will stay in the classroom and Alex & Rebecca will create an assignment tailored to your project.

5:30pm and beyond: For participants choosing the photographing option (FYV), they will photograph an assignment that they will choose themselves.

Monday, Oct. 12

10:00-10:30am: FYV bring assignment (no more than 5 A; 25 B) on portable hard drive and give to the workshop assistant to download into a single computer; AOE lay out their assignment on designated table

10:30-11:45am: Review of FYV assignments

11:45-12:30pm: Presentation & Q&A

12:30-1:30pm: Lunch Break

1:30-2:30pm: Review of AOE assignments

2:30-4:15pm: Presentations by Alex and Rebecca; Q&A

4:15-4:30pm: Coffee break

4:30-6:00pm: Slant Rhymes exhibition talk/walk through, Leica Gallery Chicago

This workshop schedule is subject to change at any time.

WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS WORKSHOP:

This class is for both aspiring and seasoned photographers seeking to deepen their technical skills and artistic vision through personalized instruction from a master in the field. Artists looking for the next steps in their journey and looking for mentor are encouraged to consider.

LOCATIONS:

Leica Store & Gallery Chicago
800 N Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60611

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INSTRUCTOR

Alex Webb has published more than 15 photography books, including The Suffering of Light, a survey book of thirty years of his color photographs. He’s exhibited at museums worldwide including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He has been a Magnum Photos member since 1979, and his work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, and other publications. He has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. His other books include La Calle: Photographs from Mexico and the collaborations with Rebecca Norris Webb: Violet Isle: A Duet of Photographs from Cuba, exhibited at the MFA, Boston; Brooklyn: The City Within, shown at the Museum of the City of New York; and most recently, Waves (Radius, 2022. His new book on U.S. cities, Walking Blues, will be released in Oct. by Aperture.

INSTRUCTOR 

Originally a poet, Rebecca Norris Webb often interweaves her text and photographs in her tenbooks, most notably in her monograph, My Dakota—an elegy for her brother who died unexpectedly—for which a solo exhibition of the work appeared at The Cleveland Museum of Art in summer 2015, among other venues. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, and Le Monde, and is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Brooklyn Museum, and the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, New York. She’s a 2019 NEA grant recipient, and her 10th book, A Difficulty Is a Light—a hybrid poetry book punctuated by fifteen of her photographs and published by Chose Commune—is included in the PhotoPoetry exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London through September 2026. Norris Webb’s upcoming book, Glimmerings, a selection of some thirty years of her photographs, will be released by Radius in fall 2027. She’s currently working an ongoing project about personal and environment loss in the Dakotas called Badlands.

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