Speed Dating for Photographers: Collaborative Photographic Practice
With Isaac Diggs & Edward Hillel
JUNE 6,13, 20, 27 & JULY 11, 2023
TUESDAYS, 7-9PM ET
ONLINE
LEVEL:
INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED
LIMITED TO 10 STUDENTS
CLASS FEE: $375
ABOUT THE CLASS
Have you ever considered collaborating with another photographer on a project but didn’t know who you’d work with or how to begin? Are you curious about how working with another artist might expand your creative vision? If the answer is yes, or if you’re just looking to try something new, this six-session workshop, dedicated to creative experimentation, offers photographers the unique opportunity to team up with other artists and learn from the expertise of Isaac Diggs and Edward Hillel, a collaborative duo since 2008.
The wide range of social media and collaborative technology available today present endless possibilities for working in tandem with other photographers and creatives of all types. Collaborative practice can open artistic pathways that we might never dream of on our own, unleashing new talents, skills, and innovative ideas for new projects that can also benefit your individual photographic work.
Each week you will “speed date” a different classmate and work together on fun and challenging assignments. Class time will be focused on critique of weekly assignments and exploration of the artwork other creative partnerships have produced. Isaac and Edward will also share their own projects, as well as the lessons and techniques they have learned during their 15-year professional relationship. Along the way, we will consider questions of authorship, process, and creativity as we explore the unlimited potential of working side-by-side with another artist. Prepare to be surprised by the results!
WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS COURSE
This fun and challenging course is meant for intermediate and advanced photographers who want to expand and shake up their photographic practice by venturing into collaborative photography.
COURSE NOTES
• Instructors and students will have an opportunity to review one another’s work online in the week leading up to the first session.
• Each week’s collaborative partnerships will be assigned by drawing names out of a hat. You will work with a different classmate each week.
• Assignments will be given, but students are free to adapt them based on the results of their collaboration.
Isaac Diggs is a photographer and educator. For two decades he has photographed the urban fabric of cities and communities in the United States and abroad. His work has been exhibited in the United States and Japan, and is part of the collections of the Walker Art Center, the Whitney Museum of American Art and MOMA, among others. Diggs has received support from the Asian Cultural Council, The Center for Photography at Woodstock and The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council . His work has been published in Vanity Fair, Harper’s and i-D Magazine. He received his B.A. in English Literature at Columbia University, his M.F.A. in photography from the Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College, and studied independently with Daido Moriyama and Stephen Shore. Diggs has taught in the BFA and MFA programs at the School of Visual Arts in New York. His three books include 125th: Time in Harlem (with Edward Hillel), Middle Distance or the Anxiety of Influence: Photographs from Los Angeles (2019), and Lagos (2019). His fourth title, Electronic Landscapes: Music, Space and Resistance in Detroit (with Edward Hillel), was shortlisted for the Aperture/Paris Photo Book Award in 2021.
Edward Hillel is a photographer working at the nexus of art, conceptual and social practice. His work has been exhibited internationally and is in public collections including Museum of Photography (Belgium), Musée d’art contemporain and Musée des Beaux Arts (Montréal), Museum of Modern Art (New York), Centre Pompidou and Archives Nationales (France), Tate Britain, and the National Gallery in Prague. He has been awarded the German Critics Visual Arts Prize (Berlin, 2000); Prix Alain de Rothschild (Paris, 1995); Spiro Institute Arts Award (UK 1992); Japan-Canada Prize (1990); Golden Sheaf Film Award (Canada, 1987). Publications include The Main: Portrait of a Neighborhood (1987), Speaking Stones (1993), Contes mnémoniques (1997), Fragments: Berlin/Weimar (1999), Journées valenciennoises (2000), Edward Hillel: Photographs and Installations (2001), Coming Soon… (2002); Veintidós Farmácias/Twentytwo Pharmancies, Manchester Sketchbook (2017). His ongoing collaboration with photographer Isaac Diggs has produced two books 125th: Time in Harlem (2014) and Electronic Landscapes (2021).