Gavin McIntyre: Tacet Eye Core Workshop 2023-2024
This workshop was unlike anything I've ever participated in. From past experiences, I've left workshops feeling inspired, but have never felt like I took away tangible next steps or accountability to continue and improve upon the work I had already begun. I have felt so lost, directionless and scattered in my process the past couple of years, stuck on what's next for me. The amount of clarity and support I feel in moving forward is truly invaluable to me.
CORE WORKSHOP
LONG FORM PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
Session I: Virtual, November, 2025
Session II: Virtual, October, 2026
Tacet Eye’s core mentorship-based model and workshop is our principal offering--suited for photographers exploring long-term projects and open to all levels. Structured as a year-long community of practice, it consists of two immersive sessions along with individualized coaching meetings and check-ins in between. We cover practical steps for developing long form projects and building networks that support economic, communal, and mental well-being, as well as how to navigate challenging environments safely. Workshop participants will come away with new ideas, actionable strategies, mutual support, and a refreshed vision for their project development.
Long-term documentary work demands a high level of commitment, creativity, persistence, planning, and strategy. Our approach to community and skill-building centers on process, poetics and ethics, and combines non-traditional resources, using poetry, music, literature, film, trauma-informed care, and critical theory to inform how we craft visual narratives.
APPLICATIONS WILL OPEN SPRING OF 2025
All skills are welcome, however, those wanting to pursue long-term projects and/or those interested in delving deeper into personal creative work are best suited for this workshop.
OFFERINGS
In addition to Tacet Eye’s core cohort model, we offer topic-based workshops, open conversations and events.
COMING 2025:
Core Workshop: Long-Form Project Development
Enter/Exit Book Release
Somatic Workshop for Journalists
Anonymous Portraiture Workshop
Conversations on Parenting as a Freelance Journalist
Grief Photography Workshop
PAST WORKSHOP & EVENTS:
Looking In: The Conversation Between Our Images and Ourselves
Long-Term Project Development
Caption Writing & Editing/Seequencing Intensive
Trauma-Informed Approaches to Narrative
Poetics and Process
TESTIMONIALS
Olivia Fernandez: Workshop Alumni, 2020
It felt so refreshing to have a new vision on my work and constructive feedback. It came at a perfect time and I feel much more confident now to continue the work. I was surprised by the diversity of work presented and talent of everyone, unfolding throughout the workshop. This has been a great refresher of everything I’ve missed from being in a community and working with other students.
This was an opening to new ways of seeing work and approaching my project, more specifically tailored to long term work. A lot of what was said resonated with my own experience -where I felt I was navigating in the dark, so it was incredibly helpful to realize that this is the process and we are all going through the same hurdles .
It felt so refreshing to have a new vision on my work and constructive feedback. It came at a perfect time and I feel much more confident now to continue the work. I was surprised by the diversity of work presented and talent of everyone, unfolding throughout the workshop. This has been a great refresher of everything I’ve missed from being in a community and working with other students.
This was an opening to new ways of seeing work and approaching my project, more specifically tailored to long term work. A lot of what was said resonated with my own experience -where I felt I was navigating in the dark, so it was incredibly helpful to realize that this is the process and we are all going through the same hurdles .
Jinki Cambronero: Workshop Alumni, 2024
For years, I’ve felt stuck. Unable to funnel my experience, thinking and aspirations into meaningful action, without overwhelm. The workshop has given me the tools to break it down, go deeper, and bring it all together. To both simplify and expand.
For years, I’ve felt stuck. Unable to funnel my experience, thinking and aspirations into meaningful action, without overwhelm. The workshop has given me the tools to break it down, go deeper, and bring it all together. To both simplify and expand.
Lauren Neal: Workshop Alumni, 2024
This workshop was unlike anything I've ever participated in. From past experiences, I've left workshops feeling inspired, but have never felt like I took away tangible next steps or accountability to continue and improve upon the work I had already begun. I have felt so lost, directionless and scattered in my process the past couple of years, stuck on what's next for me. The amount of clarity and support I feel in moving forward after these three days is truly invaluable to me. Thank you Sarah, Jenny and Brian for not only creating such an honest and safe space for us, but for also sharing with us your time, talent and energy.
This workshop was unlike anything I've ever participated in. From past experiences, I've left workshops feeling inspired, but have never felt like I took away tangible next steps or accountability to continue and improve upon the work I had already begun. I have felt so lost, directionless and scattered in my process the past couple of years, stuck on what's next for me. The amount of clarity and support I feel in moving forward after these three days is truly invaluable to me. Thank you Sarah, Jenny and Brian for not only creating such an honest and safe space for us, but for also sharing with us your time, talent and energy.
Christine Kao, Workshop Alumni, 2020
I came in thinking I would magically gain clarity and find solutions to how I can approach my current project, and left feeling like I could embrace and ride along the unknown. It's a much, much more needed mindset to acquire, one that I didn't think I was capable of. The way everyone brings in such passion and deep connections for their projects and empathy to listen to each other's stories were just incredible, an environment I hadn't imagined existed.
I came in thinking I would magically gain clarity and find solutions to how I can approach my current project, and left feeling like I could embrace and ride along the unknown. It's a much, much more needed mindset to acquire, one that I didn't think I was capable of. The way everyone brings in such passion and deep connections for their projects and empathy to listen to each other's stories were just incredible, an environment I hadn't imagined existed.
Annika Beaulieu: Workshop Alumni, 2020
Do I show the hard stuff, or remain in a space of cultural celebration? This whole class has really helped me articulate that struggle and help me frame a path forward - at times this felt a little bit like group therapy for photographers. I have rarely encountered so much personal attention and consideration from a workshop in the past.
Florence Middleton: Workshop Alumni, 2020
The workshop far exceeded my expectations. It was such a positive and open learning environment. The instructors and speakers were incredibly supportive and knowledgeable. I walked away feeling like I had a stronger vision for my work, ways I can make it better, and ways to move forward.
Zaydee Sanchez: Workshop Participant, 2024-2025
We don't speak about this in other workshops. The spiritual connection to the work is left out often. Therefore, we lose the feeling of it. Here, it brought to life again, feeling, allowing yourself to feel without judgment.
Billy Hickey: Workshop Participant, 2024-2025
This workshop was incredibly refreshing. It was a needed look past and through the lens of cameras into our hearts. Writing assignments that flowed into our process presentations were beautiful magic. Tacet Eye is an open and honest space for connections, creativity and personal voice to blossom.
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