This masterclass explores cameraless photography through botanical image-making, using the flatbed scanner as a creative tool in place of a camera.
Participants work with natural materials collected onsite, experimenting with scanography, layering, movement, and translucent surfaces to create richly detailed, reproducible images. The workshop blends historic and contemporary approaches, including cliché verre, hand-drawn glass negatives, and herbarium-inspired compositions, encouraging slow looking and close observation of form and material. A guided ecology-focused garden tour provides source material and context, deepening the connection between landscape, process, and image-making.
Location
The Grove Studios 104 & 105
Instructor
Shoshannah White
Shoshannah White is an interdisciplinary, photography-based artist who divides her time between Roswell, New Mexico and Portland, Maine. Her work has been supported by numerous grants and residencies in the U.S., Canada, and the Arctic Circle, and is held in major public and private collections including the Portland Museum of Art and the Bates College Museum of Art. White has exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally, completed multiple public art commissions, and regularly teaches workshops while serving as a visiting artist and critic at colleges and universities. Her work has also appeared in prominent editorial and art publications and is represented by galleries in Maine, New Mexico, and Canada.
