7x7: A COLLABORATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT Photo Book Available
Ages 16-29
Winter 2021, Online
In this experimental workshop, student fellows will work with seven instructors, one each week, to create images responding to seven themes and to seven sets of prompts. Fellows will work independently to capture what compels them in their environments even as they collaborate in addressing common ideas. Images will be shared by the group in online meetings, the images themselves being part of the discussion, visual expressions of each fellow’s distinct vision. Ultimately images will be gathered in a photo book anthology of the project. Fellow work will also be shared through a virtual exhibition and on the program website. Limited to 10 student fellows.
Phyllis Berger is a fine arts photographer and founder of the photography program in the Center for Visual Arts at Johns Hopkins University. She also developed the JHU photography program in Ireland and has lectured in such diverse places as Croatia, Costa Rica, Peru, Panama, and the Galapagos Islands.
André Chung is an award-winning photojournalist and portrait photographer. He has created images for a wide range of publications, and was one of a select group of photojournalists chosen in 2009 and 2013 to work on Barack Obama: The Official Inaugural Book. His photographs are part of the permanent collection at the Smithsonian Institute's National Museum of African American History and Culture.
Faith Couch focuses her photography on accessing the memory of the Black experience and the folklore within memory. Her work has been shown at the New Image Gallery in LA, the Nasher Museum in Durham, North Carolina, and the African American Museum in Philadelphia, among others.
Zoraida Díaz, a Colombian-born photojournalist, covered some of the most impactful Latin American stories of the 80s and 90s for Reuters. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Libération, O Globo, The Guardian, Dagens Nyheter, Clarín, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in Creative Writing and Publishing Arts from the University of Baltimore.
Chrissy Fitchett, a graduate of MICA, is a practicing photographer and Associate Director for Baltimore Youth Film Arts. Her work examines family structure, generational knowledge, and issues of political and social marginalization, such as forced migration and gender inequity. She is Associate Director of Baltimore Youth Film Arts.
Somer Greer is a writer and photographer who lived in Baltimore for close to a decade, working as a writing instructor at Johns Hopkins University and other schools in the Mid-Atlantic. He now lives on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, Louisiana. Currently, he is working on a series of candid photos of Cajun musicians.
Annette Porter is a documentary filmmaker and co-founder, with Helen Morell, of Nylon Films, UK. Comfortable with her camera in a corporate boardroom or on a high altitude trail in Chile, she produces, directs, and shoots both stills and moving images.
Karter Burnett is an undergraduate at Johns Hopkins University, where he is studying philosophy and theatre. His background includes poetry, activism, and storytelling. He is dedicated to serving underrepresented artists in Baltimore and beyond through community-building initiatives.
