Looking at Self: Personal Stories of Home, Family and Community
PH-Workshop | Available
**** This is a 4-session workshop.
Sun. Sept 21 & 28, Nov. 16 & 23 | 1-5pm
Location: Studio 5 and 2 individual remote reviews via Zoom***
In this extended workshop, participants will conceptualize and complete a documentary project, taking inspiration from the masters of documentary photography, Crealdé master classes that produced award-winning exhibitions—St. Augustine at 450 (2015), The Lake (2017) and The Las Vegas Project (2021), and the instructor’s Returning Home (2013) documentary. Participants will capture the visual narrative of the people and places that have meaning in their own lives, supported by comprehensive instruction on project development, technical elements, caption writing, and producing a cohesive body of finished, exhibition-ready photographs. Between the on-site sessions at Crealde, the instructor will individually coach participants in two remote sessions. The workshop includes the use of Crealdé’s darkroom and digital printing lab throughout the fall session.
Special Note: Open to both digital and film-based photographers with exhibition printing skills in black and white photography. While the instructor will arrange for custom matting, students will be responsible for the cost of $26 per piece, paid to the framer.
Peter Schreyer
Photography Program Manager | A native of Switzerland, Peter Schreyer is an internationally exhibited, award-winning photographer who has documented America’s cultural landscape for over three decades. He has received a wide range of public art commissions, research grants and recognition awards for his black-and-white photography on Florida communities, including a Visual Arts Fellowship from the State of Florida. In 2005-2006, Schreyer was honored with a major retrospective titled Small Stories From A Big Country at the Swiss Camera Museum in Vevey, Switzerland. In 2015, following his solo exhibition at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Winter Park, a collection of Schreyer’s Central Florida archival photographs were purchased for the museum’s prestigious Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art. Schreyer served as Crealde School of Art's executive director from 1995 through 2024. In 2007, he co-founded the Hannibal Square Heritage Center, a unique cultural facility in Winter Park that celebrates the historic African-American community’s heritage through documentary photography, oral history, and public art. In 2009, he was named Arts Educator of the Year by United Arts. Winter Park Magazine distinguished his impact on the arts in Winter Park in its selection of The Influentials in 2017. He received a Neighborhood Hero Award from Bank of America in 2010 and a State of Florida Diversity & Inclusion Award in 2016 for his leadership in establishing the Hannibal Square Heritage Center and for his long-standing relationship as a documentary photographer and educator in Winter Park’s west side community.
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