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Try Something New: 100 Images In 30 Days

Course Overview

This vibrant and playful online class turns our focus towards the joy of discovery. It is a crash course in creativity, asking students to push themselves to make, to break unproductive habits in their practices, try something new and find inspiration. Inspired by a story in Art & Fear, by David Bayes and Ted Orland, in which a photography teacher divides his class into two groups, ‘quantity’ and ‘quality’, asking his students to deliver either 100 new images or one perfect image. The anecdote reveals that the act of making produces the best results, whereas a search for perfection can be debilitating. Taking cues from this prompt students will be encouraged to make 100 new images in one month, with the caveat that no one is keeping score. The aim is to find a handful of quality images, from high-quantity production. 

This five-week workshop will begin with the introduction of your current practice, which will act as a benchmark for what we discover about our work and working habits in the subsequent four weeks. Students will be given prompts and complimentary assignments at the end of each weekly meeting, to challenge and excite their 25-image weekly goals. Our sessions will be structured around group critique, writing exercises, the study of established and emerging photographers, and a deep dive into different photographic approaches. This workshop is ideal for photographers of any ability, or discipline, who are interested in pushing the boundaries of their practice and experimenting with new ways to build their portfolios. At the heart of this workshop is the concept of play, students should expect to leave these five weeks refreshed and ready to launch into something new. 

Images © Madeleine Morlet

If your desired tuition option is unavailable, please email info@penumbrafoundation.org and we will do our best to accommodate you. If the entire class is sold out, we can add you to the waitlist.

Madeleine Morlet is an American-British photographer based in London. She is known for cinematic images rich in narrative and intimate in tone. Morlet was educated at the London Film School and King’s College London, her background in Filmmaking, Classics and English Literature was formative in her interest in storytelling structures. Morlet is an award-winning photographer, she was selected as one of the “100 Most Talented Artists” by PhotoVogue Global Open Call in 2022, and her photography publication The Quarry was reviewed by Guggenheim Winner Odette England and is sold out on Photo-Eye. Morlet has recently been awarded the Maine Arts Commission for the second time, she was also shortlisted for the Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize and the Lucie Foundation Fine Art Scholarship. In the past few years, Morlet has been awarded the 14th Pollus Award, an honourable mention in the Julia Cameron Margaret Awards, and participated in the Ellis-Beauguard Foundation Studio Residency amongst other notable achievements.

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