Cheryle St. Onge & Scott Offen on Intimate Collaboration and Photographing the Personal.
About this episode
Cheryle St. Onge and Scott Offen discuss their personal approaches to photography and collaboration in this episode.
Photographers Cheryle St. Onge and Scott Offen join PhotoWork with Sasha Wolf to discuss their photobooks, Calling the Birds Home and Grace , both published by L'Artiere Editions. In this conversation, St. Onge and Offen generously share their deeply personal approaches to collaborating with and photographing people with whom they have profound emotional connections. St. Onge reflects on documenting her mother's experience with dementia, describing the work as an act of communication, care, and connection. Offen discusses his collaborative portrait project with his partner, Grace, exploring themes of co-authorship, gender, representation, and aging. https://www.cherylestonge.com/ https://www.scottoffen.net/ Scott Offen (b. 1960) is an American East Coast photographer whose work has been exhibited across the United States and prominently featured online. Scott holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts and a Master of Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. He was selected as a finalist for the Critical Mass top 200 Photolucida award in 2021 and has been chosen as a participant in the Chico Hot Springs Portfolio Review in 2020 and 2021. Scott became a recipient of the MassArt…
People in this episode
Host: Sasha Wolf
Guests: Cheryle St. Onge, Scott Offen
Topics covered
- intimate collaboration
- photography
- personal storytelling
- dementia
- co-authorship
- gender representation
- aging
Keywords
- photography
- collaboration
- dementia
- portrait project
- emotional connection
- art
- gender representation
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: L'Artiere Editions, Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Books & works: Calling the Birds Home, Grace
Places: Worcester, Massachusetts
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