This two-day intensive workshop is designed to evaluate and strengthen your photography portfolio. Whether your goal is a personal project, exhibiting your work or pursuing photography professionally, this workshop will give you a concrete guide to improve the presentation of your work and outline steps to achieve your artistic objectives.

What you will go away with.
• Identify the goals and objectives of your work
• Skills for articulating the strengths of your work
• Action plan for improving your portfolio
• Direction on pursing you goals

What do you need to bring?
Each participant should bring a minimum of 30 prints. Prints can be any size and can represent a single or various projects and/or styles. Prints do not need to be matted and they should NOT be mounted in a book. You need to be able to reorganize and edit the work throughout the weekend.

The workshop will be held at the “Center for Photography at Madison” and run in conjunction with an exhibition of Susan Carr’s photographs at the Monroe Art Center. Carr’s opening reception in Monroe is a perfect way to start the weekend. The opening reception runs 5 pm to 7 pm at 1315 11th Street, Monroe, WI 53566.

Workshop Details:

• Price $300.00

• 10% discount to members of Monroe Art Center, The Center for Photography at Madison, American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP), Society for Photographic Education (SPE), American Photographic Artists (APA).

• Enrollment limited to 10 participants. This limit ensures that proper attention is given to each participant. It also means you should ACT NOW and register here.

• Schedule: September 8, 8:30 AM to 5:30 PM / September 9, 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

• Workshop Location:
The Center for Photography at Madison
303 S. Peterson Street (near Williamson)
Madison, Wisconsin
T 608 287 1182

Left: Bridge House, Michigan Avenue Bridge, Chicago 1996

Right: The Bowman, Grant Park, Chicago 2006
© Susan Carr

Intimate Landscapes Series

by Susan Carr

This body of work was produced between 1994 and 2000. The photographs were made in a variety of places including Michigan, Chicago, Savannah, Georgia and Athens, Greece. My interest was in photographing parks and older neighborhoods where I could find visual vignettes that revealed the complex harmonies of past and present. I sought out subject matter, both historically significant and mundane, which resonates for me a palatable human history. My goal is to merge place, memory and vision yielding a unified verse that captures a vivid sense of experience.

Bishop Street, Chicago 2005
From the series The Pilsen Project
© Gary Cialdella

The Pilsen Project

by Gary Cialdella

My photography is in the social landscape tradition. I work intuitively, searching out meanings in a variety of places and regions, always with the intent of evoking as sense of place. The Pilsen* series, takes place in Chicago’s largest Latino neighborhood. There’s a visual vibrancy in this Mexican-American community that flows from the Mexican inhabitants’ refashioning the neighborhood to celebrate their culture and heritage. The affect of this is like a stage set, only in this place the scenes change as you walk the streets – Chicago streets, with all the excess and complexity of contemporary American culture.

For this series, working in both black and white and color allowed me to more fully reveal the confluence of art and daily life present in Pilsen. Merging the monochrome and color images into diptychs, the graphic juxtaposed with ritualistic color, I could best express the sensory affect I felt being in this community. The city’s linear streetscape is a part of the rich visual complexity of the neighborhood. I used the panoramic camera to emphasize the linear flow of changing scenes in the city streets and alleys.  The diptychs and panoramas combine to evince the everyday flow of life expressed in the theatricality of the murals and graffiti that enliven this neighborhood.

*From the late 19th Century to the present the neighborhood has been the immigrant’s gateway to the city, and to achieving the American dream. The earlier immigrants that settled in Pilsen were German and Eastern Europeans, of Czech and Polish ancestry. The name Pilsen comes from the Czech city of the same name.

Left: Mural Detail with Cars, Chicago 2007

Right: Red Car and Mural, Chicago 2005
© Gary Cialdella

The Pilsen Project

by Gary Cialdella

My photography is in the social landscape tradition. I work intuitively, searching out meanings in a variety of places and regions, always with the intent of evoking as sense of place. The Pilsen* series, takes place in Chicago’s largest Latino neighborhood. There’s a visual vibrancy in this Mexican-American community that flows from the Mexican inhabitants’ refashioning the neighborhood to celebrate their culture and heritage. The affect of this is like a stage set, only in this place the scenes change as you walk the streets – Chicago streets, with all the excess and complexity of contemporary American culture.

For this series, working in both black and white and color allowed me to more fully reveal the confluence of art and daily life present in Pilsen. Merging the monochrome and color images into diptychs, the graphic juxtaposed with ritualistic color, I could best express the sensory affect I felt being in this community. The city’s linear streetscape is a part of the rich visual complexity of the neighborhood. I used the panoramic camera to emphasize the linear flow of changing scenes in the city streets and alleys.  The diptychs and panoramas combine to evince the everyday flow of life expressed in the theatricality of the murals and graffiti that enliven this neighborhood.

*From the late 19th Century to the present the neighborhood has been the immigrant’s gateway to the city, and to achieving the American dream. The earlier immigrants that settled in Pilsen were German and Eastern Europeans, of Czech and Polish ancestry. The name Pilsen comes from the Czech city of the same name.

Left: Mural Detail 18^th Street, Chicago 2006

Right: Peace Mural and Alley, Chicago 2007
© Gary Cialdella

The Pilsen Project

by Gary Cialdella

My photography is in the social landscape tradition. I work intuitively, searching out meanings in a variety of places and regions, always with the intent of evoking as sense of place. The Pilsen* series, takes place in Chicago’s largest Latino neighborhood. There’s a visual vibrancy in this Mexican-American community that flows from the Mexican inhabitants’ refashioning the neighborhood to celebrate their culture and heritage. The affect of this is like a stage set, only in this place the scenes change as you walk the streets – Chicago streets, with all the excess and complexity of contemporary American culture.

For this series, working in both black and white and color allowed me to more fully reveal the confluence of art and daily life present in Pilsen. Merging the monochrome and color images into diptychs, the graphic juxtaposed with ritualistic color, I could best express the sensory affect I felt being in this community. The city’s linear streetscape is a part of the rich visual complexity of the neighborhood. I used the panoramic camera to emphasize the linear flow of changing scenes in the city streets and alleys.  The diptychs and panoramas combine to evince the everyday flow of life expressed in the theatricality of the murals and graffiti that enliven this neighborhood.

*From the late 19th Century to the present the neighborhood has been the immigrant’s gateway to the city, and to achieving the American dream. The earlier immigrants that settled in Pilsen were German and Eastern Europeans, of Czech and Polish ancestry. The name Pilsen comes from the Czech city of the same name.

Alley off 19^th Street, Chicago 2005
From the series The Pilsen Project
© Gary Cialdella

The Pilsen Project

by Gary Cialdella

My photography is in the social landscape tradition. I work intuitively, searching out meanings in a variety of places and regions, always with the intent of evoking as sense of place. The Pilsen* series, takes place in Chicago’s largest Latino neighborhood. There’s a visual vibrancy in this Mexican-American community that flows from the Mexican inhabitants’ refashioning the neighborhood to celebrate their culture and heritage. The affect of this is like a stage set, only in this place the scenes change as you walk the streets – Chicago streets, with all the excess and complexity of contemporary American culture.

For this series, working in both black and white and color allowed me to more fully reveal the confluence of art and daily life present in Pilsen. Merging the monochrome and color images into diptychs, the graphic juxtaposed with ritualistic color, I could best express the sensory affect I felt being in this community. The city’s linear streetscape is a part of the rich visual complexity of the neighborhood. I used the panoramic camera to emphasize the linear flow of changing scenes in the city streets and alleys.  The diptychs and panoramas combine to evince the everyday flow of life expressed in the theatricality of the murals and graffiti that enliven this neighborhood.

*From the late 19th Century to the present the neighborhood has been the immigrant’s gateway to the city, and to achieving the American dream. The earlier immigrants that settled in Pilsen were German and Eastern Europeans, of Czech and Polish ancestry. The name Pilsen comes from the Czech city of the same name.

Foundation and New Houses, New Orleans 2009
© Gary Cialdella

House with No Bulldozing Sign, New Orleans, LA 2006
© Gary Cialdella

Shell Gasoline Station, Gulf Port, Mississippi 2006
Church Gulf Port, Mississippi 2006
From the series The Gulf Coast After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
© Gary Cialdella

Storm Damaged House, Ocean Springs, Mississippi 2006
From the series The Gulf Coast After Hurricanes Katrina and Rita
© Gary Cialdella