Visual Narratives: Finding Words Through Images
Environmental Writing Studio Workshop with Alison Pouliot
06.12.2024 14:00 – 16:00
Location: conference room, fourth floor, RCC
with Volkswagen Foundation Visiting Professor Alison Pouliot
As forms of artistic expression, photography and poetry share much in common. Both are the outcome of intense honing and refining—the art of reduction. Both can convey a point of view or story that goes beyond mere description. Photographers often borrow literary devices such as irony, but writers also have much to glean from photographs.
This highly interactive workshop explores the crossovers and cohabitations of words and images and how they might enhance and inspire one another. Most of the workshop will be spent actively writing short texts using visual and sensory prompts.
Alison Pouliot has been working with images and words for over three decades. She is the author of six books and has contributed chapters to several anthologies. Her words and images appear in both academic and general literature. Alison is the Volkswagen Foundation Visiting Professor at the Rachel Carson Center. You can find more information about Alison on her website.
This workshop is limited to 15 participants. Priority will be given to people who are not attending Alison’s and Anna-Maria Walter’s “Visualizing the Environment” workshop. To sign up, please email Pauline Kargruber at pauline.kargruber@rcc.lmu.de.