free film : nyc - red hook
film photography workshops

JUNE 2022
RED HOOK, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK
4 SESSIONS
PARTNERING WITH PIONEER WORKS AND RED HOOK ART PROJECT AND ARTIST RACHEL STERN
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Join Pioneer Works Alumni Resident Rachel Stern in navigating 35mm film photography. The course will include lectures on the contemporary film photography and its historical context while focusing on the development of our own distinct photographic voices.

Throughout the four sessions of this course each participant will learn the mechanics of analog photography, be introduced to the black and white darkroom, and produce a series of photographs for consideration of the FREE FILM : NYC Book.

To learn more about the class and register, follow this link.

FREE FILM : NYC follows the footsteps of the previous iterations as a meditation on community and local culture. The Airstream-darkroom will take up residency in a given neighborhood and distribute free rolls of film to the general public, and WORTHLESSSTUDIOS will partner with local community organizations and hold youth workshops where students will learn how to use a film camera, focus a lens and process and print film using professional equipment provided by FREE FILM. Over the course of the next year and a half, the project will make its way around New York to document each borough, neighborhood by neighborhood. 

The first neighborhood is Red Hook, where WORTHLESSSTUDIOS has partnered with local arts nonprofit Pioneer Works to host the Airstream-darkroom, distribute film and teach photography classes to locals. Participating photographers of all ages will shoot within the boundaries of one neighborhood at a time, responding to the prompt “ONE SQUARE MILE.”