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Photography Workshops 2010-2011 Visual Storytelling New Orleans Photography Workshops New Orleans October 21-24,2010 http://www.neworleansworkshops.com 504 236 4637  Mardi Gras March 3-9, 2011 caffery@mindspring.com  My assistant will be Mitch Soileau. Mitch is a graduate of Savannah College of Art and Design. He lived and worked in New York City for five years where he worked as a portrait photographer and as Joyce Tenneson's production and studio manger. During that time he worked with Tenneson to produce four of her books through Bullfinch Press. Mitch is a master printer who had studied and worked with some of the worlds famous printers in the US, Italy and Hong Kong to produce high quality fine art photography books. He brings a fine art background along with an enormous amount of techinical expertise to his love of digital photography and bookmaking. He was my assistant in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina devasated New Orleans. Workshop participants capture "fragile" Louisiana Debbie's students work was featured by John Patrick. Click here to view their beautiful work! Cajun Mardi Gras traditons date back to medeival France when, on the "anything goes" holiday celebrating the last day before the Lenten fast, peasants would dress up in ridiculous costumes, generally ridiculing thier superiors (nobles, clergy and Intelligensia.) They would then travel around their areas seeking alms or handouts. In small towns in rural southwest Louisiana, the Mardi Gras riders wake up early, get into handmade costumes, saddle their horses and begin traversing their local town and countryside for ingredients for a gumbo shared at the end of the day by all. At each house they visit they beg for the ingredients from fresh green onions to live chickens. Often the homeowners throw live chickens that the Mardi Gras' s scramble for...at the end of the day a prize is given for the person with the most chickens. As Mardi Gras Day is the day before lent, most indulge in lots of drinking, before midnight when Lent begins. This workshop is not for the faint at heart. It is a workshop to photograph an incredible Cajun event, very different visually from New Orleans Mardi Gras. For more details on Cajun Mardi Gras check it out on the web. The workshop will be held in Breaux Bridge, La., although all photographing will be around the countryside in southwest La. Documentary Portraits of People Living in Northen New Mexico Villages The Abiqui Workshps, Abiqui New Mexico June 6-10,2111 More information soon!!!! |