Photography as a Meditation on Memory
with Gina Costa
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Course Description
We start with a few basic questions. To what extent do memories inform one’s personal narratives and interior landscape? How and why do we construct memories from the past to lend meaning to the present? How are our photographs a meditation on memory? What happens when objects are lost in a fire, flood, or other natural disaster? The recent devastating fires in Los Angeles call to mind the significant loss of objects, now all relegated to memory. How are those memories used to rebuild a life and sense of self?
This new online workshop with photographic artist and curator Gina Costa explores these questions in pursuit of how objects or certain subject matter are tied to memory and how the choice to photograph these, consciously or subconsciously, is essentially an exercise in the search for meaning. Gina’s goal is to reveal to you a new dimension to your creative practice, one in which an awareness of and meditation on memory can lead to more impactful and personal image-making.
This five-week workshop guides you as we explore and reflect together on why particular objects or subjects are full of meaning for us, why they are critical to our understanding of who we are, and why we feel compelled to photograph them. Join Gina online as you examine, through weekly assignments and image reviews, our impulse to create photographs that relate to our memories and how to expand this practice to create more profound and resonant images.
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What You Should Know:
This workshop is open to all photographers with a working knowledge of their camera, whether DSLR, mirrorless, or iPhone. Basic computer skills and the ability to download and edit images using software are necessary.
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For the convenience of participants, recordings of each class session are posted privately for one month after the end of each session. Santa Fe Workshops takes the recordings down after one month to protect the intellectual property of our instructors.
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Gina Costa is a photographic artist, museum professional, and independent curator. She earned her graduate degrees in art history from the University of Chicago and has worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, The Art Institute of Chicago, and has taught at several universities and colleges. She has written several books and museum catalogues on 20th-century Mexican graphics, and Midcentury Modernist Art in Chicago, among other topics. Gina was a winner of the 2023, 2019, and 2018 Julia Margaret Cameron Photography Awards, a 2023 Camera Lucida Critical Mass Finalist, and the 2016 Latin American Photography Awards. Her work has also been featured in Lensculture, F-Stop Magazine, and Lenscratch. She has taught workshops about mobile photography in the United States and Europe, and is an internationally-know, published, award-winning photographer.
Gina has exhibited at the International Center of Photography, The Mira Foundation, the Griffin Museum of Photography, The Notre Dame Center for Arts and Culture, Filter Space, Perspective Gallery, The Rebekka Jacob Gallery, Charleston, the Minneapolis Photography Center, The Vermont Center for Photography, The LightBox Gallery, Tethys Gallery, and MART, Rovereto, Italy. Her works are in public and private collections in the United States and Europe including The Fratelli Aliniari Archive in Florence Italy.
Website: ginacosta.com
Instagram: @ginacostaphotography
