Arno Rafael Minkkinen: Who else am I

Teacher: Arno Rafael Minkkinen

A thousand people live inside us. We can be high-flying dreamers one moment, distraught losers the next. Plurality is our middle name. We scream at drivers when we are bike riders and vice-versa when we are behind the wheel. We also have our fears and our ambitions guiding the number of personalities lodged deep inside us - a stable of a thousand horses, each saddling us with their own agendas to lead the way.

Who Else Am I is a workshop for photographers curious about meeting a whole new set of characters, all of which are really they themselves. Documentary approaches as much as invented imagery are welcomed in this intensive workshop for photographers of all ages, backgrounds and persuasions. The goal will be to astonish oneself, to explore oneself via vigorous risk taking and patient observation. Focusing too heavily on visual style or digital rescue can easily turn a portfolio into an optical candy shop. Thus we will anchor our imagery to something far more substantial: the reality of the subject behind the lens.

© Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Freshwater, Isle of Wight, England, 2002