Somewhere Between Comfort and Danger - a look at Nostaglia with Anna Rotty

Friday’s, January 29nd - February 26th,

11 am -12:30 pm EST - Group is Full

This practice group will consider how nostalgia plays into our current photographic work. Nostalgia encompasses everything from recalling fond memories of comfort to dangerous and consequential ideologies preventing us from moving forward as a culture. What are the implications and benefits of crossing the boundary to our past? We will take a look at the various sides of this emotion and how it can serve as inspiration for making new work with the goal of having a series of images by week 5.

Participants should plan to make new work or recontextualize work from their past as we discuss how we process transition and change.

Expectations:

1. Weekly attendance (1.5 hrs/week)

2. Active participation in discussions and sharing work weekly

3. Committment to a project.

Anna Rotty’s work contemplates vulnerability, distance and the limits and possibilities of reflection and introspection. Recent work focuses on processing news around violence and power. She documents and alters media imagery while exploring the concept of monstrosity. By turning a lens at those in power as they experience moments of rage or reckoning with accountability, she attempts to express the fine line between absurdity and seriousness that can exist in outrageous or iconic moments.

Please register with the link below and consider supporting our facilitators with a donation. Please sign up for only one practice group at a time. We will prioritize registration from people who are not currently attending a “boundaries” focused practice group, but please email us at info@sixfeet.photography so that we can place you on a waiting list for any available spaces.

6 person limit.