BEYER ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE: Kristin Schnell
Generously supported by Mrs. Michele Beyer
$325 for 5-part series. open to all levels
This workshop invites participants to move from taking pictures to constructing images with emotional and conceptual depth and explores how photographic meaning is constructed through the interplay of control and unpredictability. Working with colorful surfaces, simple props, and creative arrangements, build images that have mood, tension, and meaning — not just good composition. Artist-in-residence Kristin Schnell will guide you through a series of hands-on exercises that help you discover your own instincts as a visual storyteller: what draws you to certain colors, shapes, and arrangements, and how to use those instincts intentionally.
Kristin Schnell (b. 1968) is a German photographer based on the Baltic Sea. In her staged photographic works, birds become symbolic figures exploring freedom, human confinement, chance, and the complex relationship between humans and animals. Working without digital manipulation, she creates constructed environments in which unpredictability and curiosity remain essential elements of the image. Her monograph Of Cages and Feathers was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2024. Schnell has received several international awards, including being selected for the Top 50 of the Photolucida Critical Mass in 2024 and 2025, and her work has been exhibited and published internationally.