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Photography Workshop

2025 Photography Workshop with Edie Bresler

How You Look At It

In this workshop participants will experiment with new and innovative approaches for making photographs. Whether you are using a smart phone or a DSLR, you will be challenged with specific exercises to enliven how you think about composition, your relationship to space and your subject matter. Topics for the week include portraiture, landscape and found object still-life.

Edie Bresler is a long-time artist, inspiring educator and popular speaker. In addition to numerous solo and group exhibitions across the United States and abroad, Bresler also collaborates with local arts organizations such as the Boston Center for the Arts and the Emerald Necklace Conservancy, to produce unique community arts actions. Edie has received many awards including a Massachusetts Cultural Council fellowship in Photography, a NY Foundation for the Arts grant, a Berkshire Taconic Artist Resource grant, multiple visual artist fellowships from the Somerville Arts Council and several Faculty Research grants from Simmons University where Bresler was on faculty from 2000-2024. Bresler’s projects have been featured on Good Morning America, PBS Greater Boston, in Photograph Magazine, Lenscratch, Slate, Esquire, Photo District News, Aspect Initiative, Business Insider and many others. Bresler’s artworks are in collections at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the Danforth Museum, Polaroid Corporation, Fidelity Bank and numerous private collections. Edie is excited to be part of Star Island Summer 2025.

What to bring or wear:
Participants should bring any cameras or iPhones they use to take video or photos.