Workshop Series Description: How to Treat an Image Photography captures a moment, but what happens when we intervene in that moment? How to Treat an Image is a workshop series exploring physical and conceptual interventions into the photographic image. Through acts of destruction, manipulation, and reconstruction, participants will push photography beyond its traditional boundaries, questioning its role as a fixed record. Blurring the lines between photography, sculpture, and performance, this series challenges participants to rethink photographic materiality. Whether working with their own images or found materials, they will engage in processes that transform photography into a tactile, multidimensional form of storytelling. Workshop Description Participants will experiment with personal and found archives by exploring manipulation through the multi-dimensional and material aspects of images. In this workshop, participants will create visual representations of memory that explore its abstract qualities and fleeting nature by applying image transfers to various materials. Participants will embrace the concept of memory manipulation as a tool for self-reinvention, while also considering its significance within diasporic and immigrant communities. Throughout the workshop, participants will learn techniques for embedding meaning into found materials, transforming and embedding their images onto materials, with unpredictable imperfections as sources of aesthetic and conceptual inspiration. Materials such as copper, glass and fine art paper will be explored. No prior experience is necessary to participate and all materials will be provided. Participants will need to send 3-4 archival photographs by May 21st at 5PM. These images will serve as the foundation for creating 1-3 final works. Participants are encouraged to bring their own objects and surfaces to transfer images onto, and explore the advantages and challenges of working with different materials. Instructor Bio Ernesto Cabral de Luna (b. 1996, Cholula, Mexico) is a lens-based artist working in Toronto. His work explores the fragmentary nature of memory—individual and collective—by manipulating alternative histories and printing onto found scrap materials through digital and analog experimental processes. Interested in narratives of migration, his practice examines the interplay between memory, dislocation, and displacement, particularly in the context of exile. His work centres around altering perception – providing new ways to experience recognizable imagery in unconventional manners and outside of their intended purpose. Ernesto received his Honors BFA in Photography from OCAD University in 2024. He has exhibited work in various local galleries and artist run centres such as Patel Brown, Abbozzo Gallery and Xpace. Ernesto has worked on campaigns with notable brands like Toronto Raptors, Walmart and Coors Light. His work will be exhibited at The Artist Project in May 2025.

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