This intimate workshop is designed to help photographic artists shape their creative vision. Festival Keynote Speaker, Mona Kuhn, will lead the group in critiques of each participant’s project to help emerging and established photographers strengthen their creative voice, exploring the aesthetic, emotional, and narrative aspects of image making leading to creative growth for each artist and the group as a whole. Mona will guide each participant towards defining a series of goals leading to a refined personal style and participants will learn the best ways to articulate, present, and expand their visual strategies.
Participants are asked to bring a printed portfolio of no more than 25 images. Workshop is limited to 8 participants.
Mona Kuhn was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1969, of German descent. In 1989, Kuhn moved to the US and earned her BA from The Ohio State University, before furthering her studies at the San Francisco Art Institute. She is currently and independent scholar at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles. Mona Kuhn’s first monograph, Photographs, was debut by Steidl in 2004; followed by Evidence (2007), Native (2010), Bordeaux Series (2011), and Private(2014). Mona’s upcoming book titled She Disappeared into Complete Silence is scheduled for Fall 2018. Occasionally, Mona teaches at UCLA and the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena.
Mona Kuhn’s work has been exhibited at The Louvre Museum and Le Bal in Paris; The Whitechapel Gallery and Royal Academy of Arts in London; Musée de l’Elysée in Switzerland; Leopold Museum in Vienna, and Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia. Her work is in private and public collections worldwide, including The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum, Perez Art Museum Miami, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Kiyosato Museum in Japan. Mona Kuhn lives and works in Los Angeles.
Image: AD 6387, 2014 Chromogenic dye coupler print
Workshop Presented by: Mona Kuhn
Date: Friday, September 28
Time: 9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Cost: SOLD OUT
Location: Millennium Knickerbocker Hotel | 163 East Walton Place | Chicago, IL | 60611
