Posts tagged photo arts
We Made A Zine Together!

The project, a special limited edition run of The Southwest Detroiter featuring Zoë Villegas’s ‘Standing In The Shadows of Love’ with photographs by Erik Paul Howard, was hand-assembled during Gabriela Baginski’s weekly Photo Arts sessions at La Sirena Studio on The Alley Project.

She led the group through a series of hands-on book making lessons.

More than a dozen hands helped put it all together over several weeks—measuring, sewing, and learning how to make books along the way in a community setting.

And now they’re done. The limited edition of 25 zines will be made available to the public and proceeds support youth and community development through the arts as well as your local artists.

Photo Arts and Mentoring with Gabriela Baginski of La Sirena Studio

Gabriela Baginski of La Sirena studio shares her passion for photography every chance she gets… from classes at local schools to presentations and workshops with community organizations, her processes are engaging and impactful.

Most recently Gabriela has been building with a group of aspiring photographers through photo arts and mentoring at Inside Southwest Detroit.

Learning from others’ work is inspirational… her students are being exposed to a range of photographers’ works while also creating their own in a variety of educational exercises. In this way, hands-on, they are learning about processes in creating their own inspirational products.

In small group and one on one sessions she is sharing info and skills tailored to meet aspiring photographers where they are—teaching them how to use their camera equipment, save and manage their files, set up lighting, properly exposing photos to save time in post processing and more.