WHY PHOTOGRAPHERS WRITE
with Jaime Permuth
Course Dates & Times TBD
ONLINE COURSE
LEVEL: INTERMEDIATE/ADVANCED
LIMITED TO 12 STUDENTS
CLASS FEE: $425
1-HOUR PRIVATE TUTORIAL: $106 (15% OFF)
ABOUT THE CLASS
Photographers often feel anxious and procrastinate when it comes to writing. For most of us, it’s hard enough to communicate our ideas and emotions visually, let alone in writing. But writing is a key element in developing ideas, presenting finalized projects to the public, and raising funds for future endeavors. If you want to get your work out into the world, writing is essential.
Moreover, applications for different professional opportunities often use unique language in their instructions, and it can be difficult to understand exactly what they’re asking for. For instance, how is an Artist Statement different from a Project Statement? When should we write a Bio in a first person narrative voice rather than taking a more factual third-person approach?
WHAT TO EXPECT
Through in-depth presentations, writing exercises, group discussions, and personalized feedback, Jaime will guide you in creating an Artist Statement, Biography, Project Description, and Editorial/Advertising Pitch for use in your next round of applications.
Writing for Photographers will give you the skills and confidence to write about your photography and yourself in a compelling voice that is richly your own. By the end of the course, you will have versions of each of the essential texts you need to advance your photographic practice.
WHO SHOULD TAKE THIS CLASS
This course is meant for intermediate and advanced students who have a project in-progress or recently completed and want to apply for professional opportunities to advance their careers.
Jaime Permuth is a Guatemalan photographer and long-time New Yorker currently based in Seoul, Korea. He is a recipient of a Smithsonian Institution Artist Fellowship as well as an NFA Fellowship from the National Association of Latino Arts and Cultures. Nominated for both the Prix Pictet and a USA Artists Fellowship, he has received awards from Adobe’s Creative Residence Community Fund as well as the Urbanautica Institute and AI AP’s Latin American Fotografia Competition. His first monograph, Yonkeros, was published by La Fabrica Editorial (Madrid) in 2013 and a second, The Street Becomes, was published by Meteoro Editions (Amsterdam) in 2021. For the past decade, Jaime has been on the faculty of the Masters in Digital Photography program at New York City’s School of Visual Arts where he was also the curator of the i3 Photo Lecture series. Among others, his work has been featured in exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, The Queens Museum of Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, The Museum of the City of New York, The Jewish Museum, El Museo del Barrio, and The Brooklyn Museum of Art.