Saturday & Sunday

July 27 & 28

10 AM - 6 PM

Class Size Max: 6

Location: EUREKA Kingston (specific details provided after registration)

Join Sara J. Winston for a weekend in upstate New York to shape your project into a photobook. This workshop is designed for photographers who are working on making a book with an existing body of work and wish to engage in discussion about image editing, sequencing, and book object design. In this two-day workshop, the class will work together to refine student books through practical assignments, concrete examples, and group critique and discussion of works-in-progress. Participants will finish the workshop with a better understanding of how to edit, sequence, and layout their selection of photographs into book form. After the workshop, all will leave with an actionable checklist of what to do next on their way to completing their book.

Participants should bring 75-150 4x6” work prints to both days of the workshop. These should not be precious prints as they will be handled and taped into book dummy structures.

This workshop is a part of the Summer 2024: Penumbra Workshops in the Hudson Valley programming and will not take place at Penumbra Foundation.

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.

Sara J. Winston is an artist based in the Hudson Valley region of New York, USA. She works with photographs, text, and the book form to describe and respond to chronic illness and its ongoing impact on her body, mind, family, and memory.  Sara is the author of several photobooks, among them Good Weather (National Monument Press, 2024), Shades (collaboration with Aaron Canipe & Nat Ward; Push Pull Editions, 2023), A Lick and a Promise (Candor Arts, 2017) and Homesick (Zatara Press, 2015).  Sara is Visiting Artist-in-Residence and Photography Program Coordinator at Bard College; on the faculty of the Penumbra Foundation Long Term Photobook Program; a contributor to the photo-eye blog as well as Lenscratch where she reviews photobook; amd a member of Storm King Art Center’s Accessibility Advisory Groups. 

On June 29, 2023, her long-term project about multiple sclerosis care, Our body is a clock, was adapted and published as an op-ed in the New York Times, titled ‘My body is a clock’: The Private Life of Chronic Care.