PCNW Classes

Night Photography and Long Exposures with Dan Hawkins

Jun 21 | Fri 8-10pm

Instructor: Dan Hawkins
Friday 8-10pm | June 21
FREE (Donate to LONG SHOT!)

Level: Introductory to Advanced (any level!)
Prerequisites: None

When: Friday June 21, 8-10PM. Meet at Photo Center NW.
Tuition: Free! (Please make a donation to the Photo Center for LONGSHOT 2013)

If you’re signed up for LONG SHOT 2012, take advantage of one of these great workshops with local artists and experts. All you have to do is put your name on the roster, and pay what you will: $25 – $100, everything helps advance education programs at Photo Center NW! Advance registration (HERE) is recommended. If you’d like to meet up with other Long Shot participants, Dan and his class will be headed over to the Seattle University Campus, and to Cal Anderson Park between 8-10pm on Friday June 21!

Join artist and photographer Dan Hawkins on a night adventure and learn more about how to make long exposures, work with the special qualities of twilight and artificial light, and capture scenes and spaces in the urban environment.

Dan Hawkins is a Seattle based photographer who has used a wide variety of obsolete and archaic imaging processes to produce his work. These highly personal documents often deal with the dual themes of memory and decay. Beginning with empty houses and discarded water towers he has gone on to record EPA Superfund sites, chemical factories, decaying ballrooms, deserted nuclear facilities, crumbling hotels, and a number of derelict mental hospitals and jails. In his attempts to describe a “landscape of the soul” he has managed to see many of the nations lost treasures of industry and tour its forgotten mental health legacy. He is currently working on a body of photographs from a recent tour of the nuclear reactors of Northern France. An ongoing catalog of this work can be seen at www.washingtonruins.com

Are you looking to study night photography more in-depth? Be sure to check out these great summer courses: Creative Night Photography and Printing a Night Photography Portfolio.

Register Now! (Members: please have your discount code ready at checkout)