CANCELLED–Chiapas Festivals and Faces: Photography Workshop
THIS WORKSHOP IS CANCELLED! Arrive January 18 and depart January 25, 2016. To make this workshop tour affordable, we are organizing it to include only instruction, on-the-hoof, coaching, feedback and photo review sessions, bi-lingual tour guide and all transportation. It does not include lodging or meals. Cost is $1,295 per person. We need 6 people […]
Day of the Dead Photography, Oaxaca, Workshop Tour 2014 with Frank Hunter
Oaxaca, Mexico, is famous for its Day of the Dead celebrations. You experience it and capture it for a lifetime of memories! This is cultural immersion travel photography at its best! Arrive Monday, October 27, depart Tuesday, November 4— 9 days, 8 nights, starting at $1,895 per person. Limited to 8 participants. Small Group. Personal Attention. […]
Photography in Oaxaca: Reality or Romantic Vision
What does a photographer whose subjects were native Americans have to do with Oaxaca? Read on. 1900’s photographer Edward S. Curtis sought to capture the vanishing American Indian. The just published Curtis biography, Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher by Timothy Egan, documents Curtis’ quest over the next thirty years traveling throughout the American west. The […]
Archives of American Art historic film footage from 1930’s Mexico: A rare delight
From the Smithsonian Institution’s Archives of American Art, here is rare and restored footage of 1930’s Mexico, filmed by expatriate artists Stefan Hirsch and Elsa Rogo while they were living in Taxco, Guerrero, Mexico and visiting Tehuantepec, Oaxaca. Thanks to Patricia Thompson, a Oaxaca Cultural Navigator blog follower for bringing A rare delight: Mexican home […]
Reframing Mexico: Multimedia Documentary About Mexico City Life
Students from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Journalism and Mass Communications teamed with journalism students at Tec de Monterrey in Mexico City to create a visual story of life in Mexico City through video and photographs. It is captivating, real, and human. It expresses the range of frustrations, challenges, misery, […]
Oaxaca Photo Expedition Day Two: June 30, 2011
Today was a walking tour of Teotitlan del Valle, Oaxaca, Mexico and definitely a cultural immersion experience. We started out with a return to the village market where daily commerce and social connection is played out. Next, we walked down the cobbled streets to the Bii Dauu weaving cooperative where Rafaela showed us the cultivation […]
Photojournalism Workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico–Las Cuevitas and Day of the Three Kings
Like a writer, a photojournalist captures and tells a story through the still photographs s/he takes that is accompanied by a short written narrative. Oaxaca, Mexico, during the extraordinary and magical Christmas season will be our workshop laboratory to discover and record the scenes of the season– Las Cuevitas and Day of the Three Kings […]
Documentary Photographer Bill Bamberger to Lead Day of the Dead Expedition, Oaxaca, Mexico
Bill Bamberger, award-winning documentary photographer will teach in Oaxaca, Mexico during Day of the Dead 2011. See the complete Photo Expedition Course Description here. For two decades Bill Bamberger has been photographing Americans and their daily lives. His photographs have appeared in Aperture, Doubletake, Harper’s and the New York Times Magazine. He has appeared as […]