Jennifer B Hudson

Hello Everyone!

I thought I might share some pretty images I created in the great Nevada desert.  These were made in the midst of a great group of students and instructors, all out photographing for joy. This all came about as part of a benefit for Thirst Relief.   Eight instructors donated their time, and students signed up for a beautiful day of instruction and image-making.   As a result of the benefit, 8000 people will receive clean water for a year.  Pretty amazing.

So, here are some of the images!  I hope you enjoy them.

Women’s Portraiture Workshop and Retreat  July 26-29, 2013

Uncover your voice, immerse yourself in rich creativity, and find courage, surrounded by a magical, spiritual place. This is a place of strength and community, respite and enrichment. Join us for an intense and invigorating workshop experience that promises to refresh, enliven, and challenge you, and inspire you with incredibly beautiful and personal photographic, styling, crafting, and printing techniques.

We have fallen in love with the Motherwell Ranch, and can’t imagine having our private workshop anywhere else.  It is a completely private, breathtaking mountain paradise. Enjoy luxury accommodations, an incredible personal chef, open bar, fishing, horseback riding, hiking trails, and exquisite mountain views.  This is a place to re-center, refresh, and create.

Become inspired by four unique sessions featuring stunning models photographed amongst breathtaking landscape.  Explore Jenn’s unusual photographic methods and artistic processes, as she guides you through each session, asking and answering questions, and creating images interactively. Learn some of Jenn’s artistic processes in posing, lighting, styling, costuming, set design, and fine photographic technique. Learn to create a portable outdoor studio, a hauntingly beautiful set with a shallow tank of water, and digital tintypes as we costume and photograph models amongst horses, wild elk, and inspiring natural surroundings. Monday, learn interactively as Jenn shares her digital finishing and styling methods for antiquing her images and preparing them for printing.

Come relax, refocus, and energize your love for this incredible craft in this intimate, personal, and resonant climate. We are excited for a wonderful new group of photographic artists and thinkers, and truly look forward this great adventure together.

Cost for the workshop is $1600 and is all-inclusive.  Tuition, luxury accommodations for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday evening, all meals and cocktails for Saturday, Sunday, and Monday morning, ranch activities including horseback riding, and transportation to and from the airport are included. Tuition is collected at the time of reservation, and is non-refundable.  If you are unable to fulfill your reservation and we are able to fill it with someone on our waiting list, we are happy to reimburse you.

Motherwell Ranch is located just outside of Steamboat Springs, Colorado.  Guests may fly into either Denver International airport, or Yampa Valley Regional Airport.  A shuttle will be provided from Denver International on Friday evening prior to the workshop, and to Denver International on Monday afternoon at the close of the workshop.  Yampa Valley Regional Airport is minutes from the gate of Motherwell Ranch.

Space is limited to 15 students, and is filled on a first come, first serve basis.

Please email us to make your reservation.: olivegirl@me.com

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Hello Friends,

Well, I suppose it’s time.  I’ve been holding on to this work, protecting it, and harboring it for a long while now, and I think it’s time to let it wander a bit.  It’s strange.  In the past, when I made work, I knew exactly where I was headed, with explicitly detailed sketches of the end image as a guide, titles for the works, lighting maps, material lists and set designs.  It’s just not like that this time around.  This is the most organic process I’ve ever known, and I’ve just had to let it happen.  It hasn’t been something I’ve been able to force.  I believe in this work, though, and I feel that because it’s evolving so slowly and tenderly, there might just be something really special in it.  So, here’s the big brave step.  I’m posting some images of what’s happening with it all, though I’ve got a long, long way to go before I can call this finished.  I’m wrapping an entire room and it’s furnishings in small strips of fabric.  Each strip is ‘baptised’ in water before becoming part of the installation, and is methodically applied.  The final image will include human subjects, and the entire room will be completely covered.  This will be the first image of a larger series that will be created from large scale room installations and repeated, organic material.  So, I’m ready as I’ll ever be to show some of this work,  let it find it’s place out there.  I’m hoping to have this image finished soon, and I’ll post some updates as it comes along!

Whew.  Here goes.