NOW: Nurturing Ourselves Workshop with Meredith Winn & Kristin Zecchinelli
October 27-28, 2012, 10:00-5:00 both days PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE
Registration: $385, including catered lunch and beverages throughout
Note: class is limited to 20 participants, early registration is encouraged
Early Bird Discount: Register by 8/1 using code NOWEARLY to receive $20 off
*Coming from out of town or wanting to make a weekend out of it? Details about the area here.
*Review Refund/Cancellation policy information here
NOW mantra:
Empowerment through photography can be life changing. It’s through self-portraiture that we learn to look kindly at ourselves. Let your camera guide you. The goal of NOW is inspiration, empowerment, and confidence building through photography. This workshop will be a fun environment in which to safely jump into the world of self portraiture.
The NOW Workshop is an extensive 2-day course with an additional 2 week at home online enrichment course included. The experience of an “in person” workshop lays a beautiful foundation for the self portrait journey. At home, you will receive additional material and encouragement through daily emails and a private forum for discussion and sharing.
Themes to be explored are:
• details of you
• reflections
• feet shots (where you stand. leaping and grounding)
• cathartic self (healing power of photography)
• environmental composition (you in the world)
• arms length (the one armed shot)
• multiplicity
• real life
NOW workshops have a personal focus on permission and safety. Letting down our masks, our guards, honoring the real, the beautiful, the silly, the NOW.
Description of class:
• NOW workshops hopes to encourage photographic exploration. This results in giving women back the control in how they see themselves.
• Through this workshop you will come away with images to remind you the beauty of seeing and being seen.
• Are you ready to be find that brave beautiful you that dwells inside?
• NOW workshop creates a safe environment to explore your image of self. Your one and only job is to come open; open heart, open mind. Set yourself free of expectation and judgment.
• You? Are you hungry for some face time? Some "proof of life"? See the beauty of the world around you and honor yourself by finding your place in it. What do you want to remember? What is your place in the chaos? What is your place in the joy?
• Are you missing from your images? Are you the one comfortably hiding behind your camera? Perhaps you are comfortable behind and in front of the lens, but you yearn to explore more in self portraiture. If these words touch your soul this is a workshop for you.
• DSLR, point & shoot, and iphone are ALL welcome here. It is not about your gear, it is all about you.
Class Materials:
• camera
• self
Registration: $385, including catered lunch and beverages throughout
Note: class is limited to 20 participants, early registration is encouraged
Early Bird Discount: Register by 8/1 using code NOWEARLY to receive $20 off
*Coming from out of town or wanting to make a weekend out of it? Details about the area here.
*Review Refund/Cancellation policy information here
About Meredith & Kristin:
Meredith Winn is a freelance writer and photographer. She is from everywhere on any given day; but has found her way home to the western Maine foothills, where she lives off-grid in a yurt with her sweetheart and a trio of boys.
Meredith is drawn to focusing on the emotion and the moment of photography (not just the technical aspect of cameras) this makes her approachable as a teacher to all skill levels of photographers.
Meredith’s creative nonfiction has been published in various magazines including Midwifery Today, Motherverse, Hip Mama, and Literary Mama. Her photography has been on exhibit in TX, VT, and NYC. Her art has been published in a variety of magazines such as JPG Magazine, f-stop magazine, and Emprise Review. Meredith is a contributing editor to Shutter Sisters, an Everyday Storyteller at Paper Coterie, and is a contributing photographer for Getty Images. You can read her ever elusive and sometimes sporadic blogging at the~spirit~of~the~river.
Kristin Zecchinelli is a photographer, blogger, artist, woman, and mother living on the southern coast of Maine with her small family. Kristin taps into the healing process of photography, exploring her definition of self through self portraiture. She focuses on the real, the now, the moment. Everyday beauty inspires her to pick up her camera.
Kristin’s artistic style draws people to her photography. Her art has been on exhibit at the Fotofest Gallery in Houston, TX. Her images have appeared in the Beckoning of Lovely collection, the Shutter Sisters Picture Hope Project, and the Kirtsy Mom 2.0 video collaboration with well known novelist, Katherine Center. Kristin’s photography has won various awards and honors such as first place in the 2008 Scott Kelby Worldwide Photowalk Competition for Portland, Maine. Kristin is a contribututing artist for Getty Images, and is featured in the upcoming book, "Hand in Hand: Crafting with Kids".
Kristin believes in the magic and beauty of the everyday. She is contributing editor at Shutter Sisters and an Everyday Storyteller at Paper Coterie. You can find her blogging at MaineMomma.