Nearest Truth The Dailies Workshop 3 Athens Bryan Schutmaat Matthew Genitempo Brad Feuerhelm

I am writing this dispatch from Athens, Greece, where we are currently on the third day of shooting. The following work is part of the Nearest Truth Workshops, The Dailies workshop, which includes instructors Bryan Schutmaat, Matthew Genitempo, and Brad Feuerhelm. The workshop outline is detailed as follows:

Dailies is a newspaper term for a daily publication, and in this case, we will broadcast our workshop efforts via American Suburb X at the end of each working day. There are no rules about the content, so long as it can be considered an indexical experiment in response to the given prompts. Text will also be included in future posts, and participants should be prepared to write notes, however lucid or lyrical, and have them available for inclusion in the daily publishing of the material.

For this third day, the participants were given the assignment to consider the city of Athens through two photographic topics, in which they were to return with up to eight final images per subject, which are to be broadcast here on American Suburb X. Though the term Dailies originates from newspapers, we are looking at the subject matter as adjacent to the documentary or journalistic tendency. It is a mechanism to inspire participants to complete these assignments in the city under the tutelage of Schuttmann, Genitempo, and Feuerhelm daily. The topics for the day have included the following themes, in which the participants responded to the environment.

Images of Hands/Gesture
Crops of heads/Close Portraiture

The following images from the participants are the result of their interpretations and experiences of making work in Athens. You will find the participants’ names below each pair of images. Please consider the work as part of a holistic group approach to the themes. Participants included in the work are as follows: Jack Sciacca, Tyler Sharkey, Johannes Huwe, Britt Andersen, Andy Bosselman, Giulia Thinnes, Johannes Kremer, Pedro Agra, Karl Bailey, Michael Obrien, David Myers, Stavros Charisopoulos, Mihail Onea, and Emmaule Coupe-Kalomiris.

With this post, we encouraged participants to use the prompts as a jumping-off point for other imagery and also suggested, as was clear by this point in the workshop, that those already involved in a project on the ground could submit anything they like. Some of the participants were already invested in projects, and it felt senseless to demand exacting imagery from their efforts when they were already invested in new work. There is one image from each participant below.

There is one final recollection post due in one week.