Participants will receive full schedule of drive times, ferry times and complete set of directions.
Hone your nature editorial or fine art photography skills in the beautiful setting of one of Georgia's Atlantic barrier islands - Sapelo.
While on the island students will have the opportunity to photograph pristine beaches, maritime forest, coastal marsh and swamp, historic buildings and ruins, from an ancient native American sites to the 19/20th century Reynolds mansion and grounds. Students will have independent shooting time, travel as a group to several optimal locations, and Kolb will take time with each student individually to help maximize each photographer's ability to capture their unique vision. Film as well as digital photographers are welcome!
Though we'll cover some of the technical workings of your camera, we will work mostly on how to best articulate the meaning or experience of place, or whatever subject you choose. We'll discuss in depth how becoming acutely aware of composition, perspective and lighting while you are shooting can make good scenes into great ones, whether you are using a point-and-shoot or the latest new technology -- or film (still my favorite!). This workshop best for beginning to advanced amateurs who would like guidance in developing their vision and would enjoy this special landscape. We'll have a critique in the evening for those shooting digital and an after-the-trip critique session for those shooting film and/or digital.
Our trip begins at the ferry dock in Meridian on Friday afternoon March 26; we'll spend Friday and Saturday night on the island, returning by ferry on Sunday afternoon the 28th. Meridian is located nearly midway between Savannah and Brunswick, GA.
Georgia Conservancy's Will Berson, will be our guide and host, and will explain much about the history and natural history of the island.
Lodging
We'll be staying in a modern house located on the property of an 18th century plantation ruin in what is now a somewhat remote wilderness area. If the trip is full there will be 2 persons per room.
Meals
We'll prepare a group meal Friday night at our house, and we'll provide healthy breakfast, lunch and snack foods for Sat and Sun. We'll go out for a dinner, a low country boil, on Saturday night in the islands only town community, Hog Hammock. All meals are included in the trip price, but feel free to bring other foods with you, though refrigerator space is limited. Let us know if you have dietary restrictions.
What to bring
Please bring everything you will need with you. Remember to bring extra fully charged batteries for your camera. Please bring rain gear and emergency covering for your camera equipment and/or clothing appropriate for the weather during days of travel. We'll go rain or shine - this trip will be cancelled only by imminent hurricanes.
Note
There are essentially no services on the island, including major medical facilities, so attendees should be reasonably healthy. We'll travel around the island in the open air back of a truck and will walk some at our shooting locations. There may be a bit of "roughing it" on this trip, but it is well worth it to be able to enjoy this exclusive experience and photographic opportunity.
Recommended reading:
God, Dr. Buzzard, and the Bolito Man, by Sapelo Island native Cornelia Bailey
The Edge of the Sea, Rachel Carson, especially the chapters pertaining to the Georgia Coast
For more details, contact Kathryn – 404-862-0118
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About the Instructor
Kathryn Kolb
Executive Director of Serenbe Photography Center
Kathryn Kolb is a free-lance photographer working in the Atlanta area since 1985. Her editorial work is characterized by an artistic style with strong graphic elements. Her photographs have been widely published and have appeared in Smithsonian, Veranda, Rolling Stone, Nature Conservancy, Orion magazine and others. Special photographic projects Kolb accomplished include: environmental portraits of regional artists for the Atlanta Journal and Constitution; portraits of formerly homeless men and women who regained successful lives through Atlanta's Samaritan House, and self-published calendars of Atlanta and Athens musicians, including artists REM and Indigo Girls. In 1996, Kolb photographed a medical mission to rural communities in the Dominican Republic. In 1999, through Soho-Myriad Gallery (Atlanta), Kolb was commissioned to create non-traditional landmark portraits of the University of Virginia campus for a permanent installation at the University's Boar's Head Inn in Charlottesville. Images from Kolb's Tree Series were recently installed in the public spaces of the Children's Clinic at Emory University, and Kolb was one of five photographers selected to display work on Atlanta's MARTA buses for the public art project "Art in Motion," sponsored by the City of Atlanta in 2008.
Since the mid-nineties Kolb has shifted toward fine art images of natural forms and landscapes. Kolb's fine art series include black & white and color photographs of landscapes, trees and other plants from diverse natural environments. Her most recent work, mostly in color, explores abstract constructions that often seem more akin to painting than photography. As photographer, Kolb stays true to the simplest form of her medium - all works are straightforward, un-manipulated images, and she uses no digital cameras or printing techniques. Kolb takes all photographs with a Hasselblad medium format camera and prints with traditional enlargers. Her fine art photographs have been exhibited widely and can be found in private and institutional collections including. MOCA, Georgia Museum (Athens, GA), Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, King & Spalding LLC, Sutherland, Asbill and Brennan, LLC, Georgia Conservancy, Goizueta Business School (Emory Univ.), Georgia Tech, and City of Atlanta.
In additional to fine art images of natural subjects, Kolb continues to do environmentally-oriented assignment work. In 1999-2001, Kolb produced calendars for Georgia Forestwatch, featuring unprotected areas in Georgia's national forests. Her work was included in the Sierra Club's Clearcut: The Tragedy of Industrial Forestry, and she illustrated an article on kudzu for the October 2000 issue of Smithsonian. Two of her Tree Series photographs were featured in the Oct/Nov 2001 Veranda magazine. The Wilderness Society commissioned Kolb to photograph roadless and wilderness areas of the southeastern Appalachians for the publication, Why Wilderness? What the Remaining Wildlands of the Southern Appalachians Mean to the People of the Southeast, published in 2004. These photographs along with others from the southeastern region were exhibited in a solo show at Fernbank Museum of Natural History (Atlanta) in 2005.
In 2008, Kolb established a cooperative group of Atlanta-area photographers called The Photographer’s Print Studio, in order to create a printing facility where photographers and working artists could pool resources in order to make high quality prints of their work affordably with the best equipment available. Under Kolb’s leadership, the project then partnered with Serenbe Institute in 2009 to become the Serenbe Photography Center. Kolb was chief founding planner and engineer, and currently serves as Executive Director of SPC.
Kolb's fine art photographs are currently available through Thomas Deans Fine Art in Atlanta; Haen Gallery, Asheville, NC, Amanda Schedler Fine Art, Birmingham, AL; Artstudio 101, Scottsdale, AZ.
See kathrynkolb.com
