Master Class: Narrative Storytelling with Sal Taylor Kydd

The Griffin Museum is partnering with renowned lens-based artist Sal Taylor Kydd to offer a new online workshop for photographers who are passionate about their art and eager to refine their skills while receiving expert guidance.  

Over the course of six enriching weeks, you’ll embark on a transformative journey to enhance your photographic storytelling abilities and develop your work within a cohesive series. This class is designed to help facilitate growth, not only as a photographic artist, but also as a visual storyteller, developing a deeper understanding of how to communicate a lyrical narrative through your images.

This exclusive workshop will include group critique and mentorship, gathering in a supportive environment where artists can share their work and receive constructive feedback from Sal and fellow artists. Sal will offer personalized insights tailored to each student’s unique style and goals, which is intended to help to refine each individual’s artistic vision.

This class is open to fine art photographers looking to start or continue developing a body of work, while exploring fresh perspectives in a nurturing creative community.  Students will embark on a journey of artistic growth and self-discovery.

Don’t miss out on this chance to learn from a master photographer and connect with a passionate community of fellow artists.

Level: Intermediate to Advanced.

Dates: Six weekly sessions (March 26 – April 30, 2024, once per week).

Times: One Tuesday per week, over six weeks, 10am – 12pm, ET. This is a virtual class.

Course Fee: $895 members /$945 non-members (non-members will receive a one year membership to the Griffin Museum, a $75 value).

About the Instructor:

Maine-based photographic artist and writer Sal Taylor Kydd uses various photographic media in a personal narrative that explores themes around memory and belonging; combining her poetry with alternative processes of photography and object making.

Taylor Kydd’s fine art photographs have been exhibited throughout the country and internationally, including Barcelona, San Miguel De Allende, Portland, Boston and Los Angeles; and she has been featured in numerous publications, including Shots Magazine, Don’t Take Pictures Magazine, Lenscratch, Diffusion Annual and The Hand magazine.

She has self-published a number of books combining her poetry with her photographs. Her books are in private and museum collections throughout the country including The Getty Museum, Bowdoin College, The Peabody Essex Museum and the Maine Women Writer’s Collection at the University of New England.  Taylor Kydd’s latest book “Yesterday”, produced by Datz Press, is a limited edition book of poems and photographs that explores our sense of loss around the pandemic of 2020.

Taylor Kydd is also a veteran workshop leader and educator and has led workshops and conducted portfolio reviews throughout the country and internationally with Maine Media, Santa Fe Workshops, Palm Beach Photography and Nord Photography in Norway.

Originally from the UK, Taylor Kydd is fluent in French and Italian, having earned her BA in Modern Languages from Manchester University in the UK. She has an MFA in Photography from Maine Media College in Rockport, where she now lives with her husband and two children. Sal Taylor Kydd