THIS SUMMER we’re hosting two workshops in Europe! This is serious work and serious fun—an experience that will deepen your practice and connect you to an international group of fellow artists.

Each session is open to 10-11 students. Most are dedicated photographers but serious beginners are encouraged. In group critiques we dive deep into each person's work to identify a voice and way forward, whether you are shaping a project, editing a book, or simply want to learn about yourself as an artist.

There will be time for 1-1 meetings, sequencing exercises, looking at the work of other artists, long conversations over meals, and creating new images as we explore nearby wonders. Artists, book publishers, and/or curators from France, Italy will visit.

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Tuition options (including lodging): $1850 (shared room with bunkbeds, shared bath) // $1950 (shared room with 2 single beds, shared bath) // $2250 (private room with king bed, private bath)

Daily light breakfasts & a few group dinners are provided.

BY STONE & SEA, FOSDINOVO, ITALY

JUNE 10-16, 2024

Lodging & location: We will all be staying as a group at Antiquae Lunae, a complex of condos with shared outdoor spaces and pool, a short walk from the midieval village of Fosdinovo. Each condo has three bedrooms, a living room, and kitchen. Students can share a bedroom or choose a single room for an additional fee. Class will be held in a brand new studio on premises, with evening slideshows and presentations. We will travel together to explore nearby marvels: seaside villages of Lerici, Tellaro, Porto Venere; the marble quarries of Carrara, and the caves and canyons in the valley of Lunigiana. The sea is 25 minutes away.

Participating in The Humid’s summer workshop at Vers-Pont-du-Gard was an enriching, fun and meaningful experience. Irina and Mark were considerate of the entire group and their individual critiques were incredibly insightful, constructive and supportive. I found these very helpful in figuring out the direction I wanted to go in regarding a body of work and the workshop helped me gain confidence in taking photos again. The location was beautiful and there was a good balance between being able to explore the area while also going back to the bridge most days. I’m grateful for the new friendships I made there as well as Irina and Mark’s guidance and encouragement throughout the workshop. 

-Solenne, 2023

>>Work made in Pont du Gard by last year’s students HERE<<

THE BRIDGE, PONT DU GARD, FRANCE

JUNE 23-29, 2024

Lodging & location: our “campus” is La Bégude Saint-Pierre, a 17th century post house that was converted into a beautiful inn and restaurant. If your budget allows, you could reserve a room here. Alternatively, there are various Airbnb options in the village of Vers, a 10-15 minute walk away. Outside of class, we explore the Roman aqueduct Pont du Gard (a Unesco heritage site) and Gardon River, so be prepared to do some light hiking, swimming, and kayaking. Mornings begin with optional meditations and we will make a trip to the nearby town of Uzes. The workshop is timed to end two days before Rencontres d’Arles, a yearly photo festival that is worth the trip.

Tuition: $1500

Renting a bicycle is highly suggested.

SUMMER WORKSHOP GENERAL INFO

Applications: are accepted on a rolling basis until the groups fill. If accepted, you can hold your spot with a $300 deposit. The tuition balance is due May 10th. To apply, send 6-8 jpegs of recent work, with a bio and your interest in the workshop you’d like to attend to: info@thehumid.com

Scholarships: two partial scholarships and financial assistance are available for each workshop, based on need and application. Please indicate this with your submission.

Cancellations: We understand that life happens. If you have a serious reason to cancel, please give us a chance to fill your spot. If it’s too late, we may not be able to return the deposit.

Any questions please email: info@thehumid.com

We look forward to hearing from you~

TIM DAVIS (born Blantyre, Malawi, 1969) is an artist, writer, and musician who lives in Tivoli, NY and teaches photography at Bard College. His latest project, I’m Looking Through You, will be published by Aperture in 2020. The Tang Museum at Skidmore College showed a large survey of recent work in photography, video, sound, sculpture and performance entitled “When We Are Dancing, I Get Ideas” in 2019. The catalog will be published in 2020. Tim lived in Athens as a child and is working on a new book revisiting his time there, tentatively titled “Normaltown." Tim’s website

Max Students: 12

CURRAN HATLEBERG was born in Washington, DC in 1982. He received his MFA from Yale in 2010. Most recently, his work was featured in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and has been shown at MASS MoCA, Higher Pictures and Fraenkel Gallery. He is the recipient of a 2015 Magnum Emergency Fund grant and a 2014 Aaron Siskind Foundation Individual Photographer’s Fellowship grant. His work has been published in Harpers, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Vice and The Paris Review. Lost Coast, his first monograph, was released by TBW Books in fall 2016. Somewhere Someone, a collaborative artist book with Cynthia Daignault was released by Hassla Books in fall 2017. Curran has taught photography at numerous institutions, including Yale University and Cooper Union. He lives in Baltimore, MD. www.curranhatleberg.com

MATTHEW CONNORS’s photographs have been exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague and Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York. His monograph Fire in Cairo (SPBH Editions) was awarded the 2016 ICP Infinity Award for best artist book. He has also been awarded the MacDowell Colony Fellowship, the Lightwork Artist-in-Residence Fellowship, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts Fellowship. He received a BA in English Literature from the University of Chicago and a MFA in Photography from Yale University. He has taught in the Image Text Ithaca MFA Program, the Yale Photography MFA Program and in the Photography Department at the Massachusetts College of Art & Design where he has been a Professor since 2004. www.matthewconnors.com

Andrew Zawacki is the author of five poetry books: Unsun : f/11, due next year from Coach House; Videotape (Counterpath, 2013); Petals of Zero Petals of One (Talisman House, 2009); Anabranch (Wesleyan, 2004); and By Reason of Breakings (Georgia, 2002). A former Rhodes Scholar and Fulbright Scholar, he earned his doctorate from the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His work has appeared in Poems for Political Disaster, Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, The Iowa Anthology of New American Poetries, Great American Prose Poems, The Eloquent Poem, and other anthologies, as well as magazines such as The New Yorker, The Nation, and The New Republic. His translations of two poetry books by Sébastien Smirou, See About (La Presse / Fence, 2017) and My Lorenzo (Burning Deck, 2012), have earned him a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship, a French Voices Grant, and a grant from the Centre National du Livre. He teaches at the University of Georgia.

Andrew will join Barbara for a poetry reading as part of her artist lecture on Friday evening, May 23rd.

Barbara Bosworth is a photographer whose large-format images explore both overt and subtle relationships between humans and the rest of the natural world. Whether chronicling the efforts of hunters or bird banders or evoking the seasonal changes that transform mountains and meadows, Bosworth’s caring attention to the world around her results in images that similarly inspire viewers to look closely. Her single images display a generous attention to small facts, while her large-scale triptychs reveal a panoramic awareness, one that lets viewers glimpse relationships between frames across a wide field.

Bosworth’s publications include The Heavens (Radius Books, 2018); The Meadow (Radius Books, 2015); Natural Histories (Radius Books, 2013); Trees: National Champions (M.I.T. Press, 2005); and Chasing the Light (Nightwood Press, 2002). Bosworth’s work has been exhibited at The Smithsonian American Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Denver Art Museum, Peabody Essex Museum, and many others. A recipient of multiple fellowships and grants, Bosworth’s awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and a Kittredge Foundation Grant. Her work is represented in major collections including Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Center for Creative Photography, Cleveland Museum of Art, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Modern Art, Peabody Essex Museum, Phoenix Art Museum, Princeton Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Smithsonian American Art Museum. Bosworth was born in Novelty, Ohio and currently lives in Massachusetts. She is Professor of Photography at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Learn more about Barbara in this video made by SF MOMA

Adam Pape (Brooklyn)

www.adam-pape.com

Adam is a photographer residing in Brooklyn. His first monograph Dyckman Haze was published by Mack in 2018. Adam received his MFA from Yale University and is a visiting lecturer in photography at Suny Purchase, New York. He has been commissioned to create vast photographic stories for The New Yorker and The Fader.

Rose Marie Cromwell (Miami)

www.rosemariecromwell.com

Rose is a Miami based photographer whose first monograph El Libro Supremo de la Surte (The Supreme Book of Luck) was released to great acclaim in 2018 by TIS books and surmises 10 years of work made in Cuba. Rose is frequently commissioned by The New York Times, California Sunday Magazine, Harpers, Oxford American, The New Yorker, and Vice, among others. She is the winner of a Getty Reportage Grant and a Fulbright Scholar.

Nelson Chan (New York City)

www.nelsonchanphotography.com

Nelson is a graduate of the Hartford Art School MFA program and co-founder of the art book publishing house TIS books. He is also Production Manager at Aperture Foundation and oversees the printing of the foundation's book program. Rooted in his own experience of growing up between the United States and Hong Kong, Chan's own photographic work is based around the immigrant experience viewed through explorations of diaspora, (be)longing, labor, and sacrifice.