the personal project with cig harvey

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In order to find your own unique voice as a photographer you need to understand where your work is coming from. There has to be a connection between the artist in you and the photographer. This workshop is about finding that connection. Cig Harvey

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
Stories told through photographs can come from a place of joy or pain, they may be truthful or fictitious; the only essential factor is that they be intensely felt by their maker. The challenge is to avoid the universal and clichéd and discover the unique by seeking out the specific and the personal. Using metaphor and symbolism, participants photograph across many genres—the found and the constructed, the landscape, the still life, the portrait, and the self-portrait—in order to visually articulate their narratives.

A workshop with Cig Harvey is total immersion – concentrated and intense, with lectures, slide shows, brainstorming, photographing, writing and critique.

There are daily discussions, written exercises, and reviews of work in progress, as well as individual assignments designed to help participants hone their abilities to recognize and capture emotional content and create memorable images. We will also review work by other artists who have used personal experience as a vehicle. Cig will meet individually with each participant to discuss how to push his/her work farther and avoid repetition.
Participants will leave the workshop having found something unique and personal in them self, that they now are able to transcend into their images, making their work a truthful testimony of their voice.

ABOUT CIG HARVEY:
Cig Harvey, MFA, is a passionate working fine-art photographer and educator. She is represented by The Robin Rice Gallery in New York, Joel Soroka in Aspen and Watermark Gallery in Houston. Her images are held in numerous collections worldwide, including The International Museum of Photography, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY. In addition to her fine art career, Cig is represented commercially by Marilyn Cadenbach and Associates in New York and LA. She is a full time professor at The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University.

SAGA - CENTER FOR PHOTOGRAPHY:
The workshop with Cig Harvey will take place at NORDphotography’s new workshop center SAGA, located in the middle of Norway close to the small town of Straumen - Inderøy.

Nestled in a quite bay, directly on the waterfront, and surrounded by one of Norway most beautiful cultural landscape, you find SAGA, NORDphotography’s new workshop center. The area is known for its beautiful sceneries, which together with the sea and special light, has inspired artists and authors for hundreds of years. It is a perfect place for a creative center for photographers and we welcome anyone who are looking for a quiet environment where nature, like-minded people, and world-renowned photographers join forces to learn and celebrate the art of photography.

Distance: SAGA is about a 2,5 hour travel distance from Oslo (plane 1 hour, train 1 hour and 15 minutes, car ride 15 minutes), about 3 hours from Stockholm or Copenhagen, and about 12 hours from New York City.

HOW TO GET TO SAGA:
By Plane: The closest airport to SAGA is Trondheim International Airport. From the airport, take the local train, which stops at the airport terminal every second hour (from 7:45 AM – 9:45 PM), towards Steinkjer. You will disembark the train at Røra Station (about a 1 hour and 15 minutes ride from the airport) and NORDphotography’s van will be there to greet you and take you to SAGA.

By train: Your disembark the train at Røra Station and NORDphotography’s van will be there to greet you and take you to SAGA. Travel distance with train from: Oslo 9 hours. Trondheim 2 hours. Bodø 9,5 hours. Storlien (Sweden) 3,5 hours.

By car: Follow E6 to Røra, then RV 755 to Straumen.

WORKSHOP TUITION:
Kr. 7.500,- NOK

Accommodation is in addition to the workshop tuition (kr. 675,- pr person pr day inkl breakfast and lunch)

To secure a seat on this workshop we ask for a deposit of kr. 2.500,- NOK to be paid to NORDphotography. Shortly after registrating for the workshop you will recive an invoice via e-mail for the deposit to be paid within two weeks, and an invoice for the rest of the tuition, to be paid no later then 1 month before the workshop starts.

Register for the workshop HERE eller send en e-post til post@nordphotography.com

ACCOMADATION:
SAGA will function as the home for the students and our teachers during their stay. We have 1 single, 3 double and 1 triple rooms and each room has its own distinct style, where comfort and a relaxing mood is the common tread. There are single beds in all our rooms. Most participants will have to share rooms. If you are a group traveling together, or you have a preferance when sharing a room, please make a note when registrating for the workshop.

We will start each day with a healthy breakfast, before heading to class, or out shooting. We serve lunch and dinner at SAGA every day. SAGA has a social area where students and teachers are more then welcome to hang out, work on their images, flip through a photo book for inspiration, sit out on the porch and take in the amazing sceneries of landscape and water, or just socialize with their pears. We want to create a homey feel to the center where you can come and go as you like, and where the focus is to breath and just enjoy our time together.

Accomodation in shared room inkluding breakfast and lunch at SAGA: kr. 675,- pr person pr day.

Payment for accomadation is done directly to SAGA, on the first day of arrival.

CANCELATION RULES
For the workshop to run we need a minimum of 7 participants. If we for some reason are not able to reach our minimum number, the workshop will be canceled and you will receive a full refund.

Travel expenses are each participant's own responsibility. NORDphotography is not responsible for reimbursement of non-refundable airline/ train tickets in the event of a program cancellation. Please check on your workshop status before making travel arrangements.

We suggest that you always have traveler's insurance.

There wil be a maximum of 10 students on this workshop.

Withdrawal and Refund Policy
Enrollment is limited in our workshops, so once you have been accepted your participation is important to us - we are counting on you to attend.

We do however understand that sometimes plans fall trough and offer the following cancellation policies:

For our NORWAY workshops:
Withdraw more than 60 days before the start of class and we will refund all monies paid, minus a administration fee of NOK 800,-.

Withdraw between 60 days or less before the start of class and we will charge you with the full workshop tuition.