Maine Media Workshops
By Megan • Jan 14th, 2008 • Category: News for Creatives (archives)Russel Hart reports for Pop Photo:
Somewhere on the coast of Maine a much-loved photography program is reinventing itself.
“Jay Maisel has put his Maine Media Workshops class on the spot by asking its students to ask him questions. Most of the diverse photographers around the big table know him well enough at this point to hesitate, and they keep their mouths shut. But one brave class member takes the leap. “What colors are you attracted to?” she asks Maisel, one of photography’s great colorists. “That’s pathetic,” he says, predictably but in good fun. “That’s like asking what’s your favorite f-stop. F-you?”
Maisel goes on to say that there’s no such thing as good or bad colors, it’s just how you use them, then softens up and admits that he’s working on a project he calls “the reappearance of red.” Digital capture, which he has switched to entirely, is up to that challenge, he avers. “I wish I hadn’t stocked so much Kodachrome.”
Megan is a creative producer at Wise Elephant.
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