Photography as a Meditation on Memory

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.