#  Thinking Through Photography With CSWR Artist-In-Residence Sarah Schorr  

 





December 17, 2024

 

 

**When**: January 21-23, 2025

**Where:** CSWR Conference Room + Walden Pond trip

[**Registration**](https://harvard.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_dhZiC1TPZoBgF5c) is required. To participate, you must be able to attend all three sessions.

In the evolving media landscape, strong visual storytelling skills offer dynamic possibilities for thinking through photography. How can photography enhance inquiry and contemplation? What are the benefits of multimodal methods as complements to textual research? Can photography be a bridge to thinking with our bodies and nature?

This workshop is an exploration of thinking through photography using three points of focus:

- Creating images as a sense-making practice
- Approaching images as vessels for questions, openness, and complexity
- Embracing nature and the senses as companions to images

This workshop employs an active learning style, encouraging discussion and interaction through visual practice and photo elicitation. Participants are recommended to bring a camera (a camera phone will work well) and a topic of interest for inquiry.

The sessions will be structured as follows:

**Session 1: Introduction** (Tuesday, January 21, 4-5pm, Common Room)

Introduction to thinking with photography Tailoring your practice to your interests and discussing the use of images in scholarly work, how to develop an intentional web presence, and how to select author portraits for specific projects

**Session 2: Field trip to Walden Pond** (Wednesday, January 22, 2025, 3:30 – 5pm, Walden Pond State Park, Concord, MA)

Exercises for visualizing your ideas and creating thoughtful portraits with natural light

**Session 3: Critique** (Thursday, January 23, 4 – 5:30pm, Common Room)

Participants will present their work in progress in a supportive environment and receive feedback on moving forward.

***“In an era where we receive, take, and disseminate as well as tag, browse, and edit photographic imagery, we are all the more invested and more expert in the language of photography than ever before, and we have a greater appreciation for how photography can be a far from neutral or transparent vehicle for bridged and framed moments of real time.”***

~ Charlotte Cotton



 

 

 



 

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