Jenny Jacklin Statton & Sarah Blesener

sponsored by Photo Farm

What do our images reveal about how we see? How does our relationship with certain images shift over time? And how might photography become a space for self reflection, understanding, and deeper connection with others?

This one-hour interactive session, led by photographers and visual researchers Sarah Blesener and Jenny Jacklin Stratton, invites participants to bring a print or digital photograph (or two)—from their professional work, personal life, or family archive—as a starting point for shared exploration and reflection. We’ll spend time reflecting on and reworking a photograph, while engaging with artworks and images that help bridge the space between looking inward and seeing outward. We’ll explore how photographs not only document the external world but also carry traces of our inner landscapes—our values, emotions, questions, and assumptions.

Blesener and Stratton will share learnings and insights from Enter/Exit, a project of methodologies, critiques, poetry and art outlining collaborative ways of working in visual journalism and documentary media. Published as a toolkit and framework, Enter/Exit offers strategies and approaches for photojournalists, artists, and practitioners, especially those working on sensitive stories. This session will consider how looking inward can be a practice of care: toward ourselves, toward each other, and toward the stories we choose to tell.

Artist website: www.tacet-eye.com | instagram: @tacet.eye

photographs by Jenny Jacklin Stratton and Sarah Blensener

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