Documenting Your Artwork

Documenting Your Artwork
In-person workshop
Saturday, March 18, 2023
2–3:30pm ET

Whether you’re submitting an application, updating your artist website, or posting on your feed, understanding how to capture strong images of your artwork is essential. This workshop will cover best approaches to basic lighting, shooting, and editing—from phone cameras to DSLR cameras. Add this foundational skill to your toolbox this weekend with our step-by-step guide, followed by a demonstrative workshop. Bring a friend, a notepad, and your camera of choice!

About

Chan Chao is a fine artist, educator, and editorial photographer from Kalemyo, Burma. He has published three photography books, Echo (2004), Letter form PLF (2002), and Burma: Something Went Wrong (2000). Chao’s Burma portraits were featured in the Whitney Biennial (2002). His photographs have been exhibited at Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York; G Fine Art, Washington, DC; and Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, California. Chao’s photographs are in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; the National Gallery of Art; the Baltimore Museum of Art; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Museum of Fine Art, Houston; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Denver Art Museum; the Museum of Photographic Art; the Asian Society Museum; and the LaSalle Bank Photography Collection.