How do you capture stories about community? Join Sade Fasanya and Lauren von Eckartsberg of Souls in Focus for a storytelling workshop and a conversation about the shaping of creative projects that involve meaningful collaboration with your immediate surroundings and community.
Participants will learn about skills and projects related to community documentation and storytelling. Afterward, we will experiment with photographing outdoors, in MoMA’s immediate surroundings.
Recommended for adults and teens. Space is limited and RSVP is required. Participants are encouraged to bring their own cameras.
Souls in Focus is a New York City–based, community-driven visual artist collective and creative agency. Since its inception in 2018, the collective has built a strong community of thinkers, creators, educators, and community organizers. The values of Souls in Focus—to inspire, educate, and connect—are deeply rooted in watering communities through photography, creative collaboration, and sustaining meaningful networks across the city and beyond.
Lauren von Eckartsberg is a photographer, community organizer, and educator whose work explores themes of identity, collective experience, and nostalgia. She is an alumna of the International Center of Photography and has served as the education and community engagement director of the photography collective and creative agency Souls in Focus.
Sade Fasanya is a Nigerian American photographer, educator, community builder, and cofounder of the visual artist collective Souls in Focus. Working across digital and analog mediums, her practice centers on identity, expression, African diasporic communities, and the visual language of everyday urban life. Fasanya’s works move fluidly across the photographic genres of portraiture, street photography, and social documentation.
Accessibility
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Major funding is provided by the Agnes Gund Education Endowment Fund for Public Programs, the Jeanne Thayer Young Scholars Fund, and the Annual Education Fund.