SCCC hosts summer photography workshop in June

LOCH SHELDRAKE - Photographer Len Bernstein will conduct two two-day workshops at Sullivan County Community College titled “Photography, Life and the Opposites” in June. The workshop be held as a one-credit course on Fridays, June 1 and 8, from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and as a non-credit continuing education course on Fridays, July 13 and 20, from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Part of the workshop will include taking photographs on campus, so attendees should bring their cameras. “Every successful photograph,” Bernstein said, “whether it’s a candid or a formal portrait, on the cover of a national magazine or in a family album, has something in common.” Through studying some of the landmark images in the history of photography, workshop participants will see how a photograph, in its technique and in the emotion it makes for, puts opposites together - like the momentary and the permanent, stillness and motion, logic and feeling. Bernstein is passionate about photography’s ability to convey subtleties of human emotion. “Emotion isn’t just crude, it has shades of light and dark,” he said, “and these gradations can be found in a beautiful photograph, in the expressions and gestures the photographer captures, as well as in the tonal range of his or her prints.” Bernstein’s images are in many private and public collections, including The Library of Congress and Bibliothèque nationale de France. The fee for the credit workshop is $131. The non-credit workshop fee is $60. To register for the credit course, call 434-5750, ext. 4302, or for the non-credit workshop, ext. 4398.