About this camp…
This fast-paced introduction to studio photography will enhance your understanding of the camera, studio lighting, and portraiture. Offered in collaboration with the Lamar Dodd School of Art, this camp includes hands-on demonstrations and activities that teach you how to use light and composition to create captivating photographs. You will have the opportunity to act as both the photographer and the subject. You are encouraged to bring your own camera, along with props, costumes, or makeup for the photo shoots.
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Students are encouraged to bring a camera, props, costumes, or makeup.
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CC Calloway is an artist, poet, and educator from Augusta, Georgia. She currently lives and works in Athens, Georgia. She received her MFA from University of Texas at Austin in 2020 and her BFA in Printmaking + Book Arts from the University of Georgia in 2017. CC has exhibited widely across the US and internationally, most notably at South by Southwest in Austin, TX, Material Art Fair in Mexico City, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia, Peckham Park in London, UK, Co-Lab Projects in Austin, TX, and Jonathan Hopson Gallery in Houston, TX. CC has written and self-published four books of poetry, including one book of photography entitled My Favorite Word is Nothing. CC is also an arts writer, formerly editor of Number Inc. Magazine and published in BURNAWAY Magazine. She has participated in residencies, including Stoveworks, the Ox-Bow School of Art Fellowship, Atlanta Printmakers Studio (EAR), and the Ossabaw Island Residency for Arts and Science. CC’s practice is interdisciplinary, ranging from traditional printmaking processes, textiles, sculpture and installation to new media, sound, video, and web-based work.
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