THE PORTRAIT REVISITED
with Andrea Modica
Date: September 19th, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT
Early Bird Pricing: $275
Location: Columbia College Chicago Student Center 754 S Wabash Ave
Registration opens May 21st for Filter Photo Members, and May 28th for the general public.
Date: September 19th, 2025
Time: 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM CT
Early Bird Pricing: $275
Location: Columbia College Chicago Student Center 754 S Wabash Ave
Registration opens May 21st for Filter Photo Members, and May 28th for the general public.
This one-day workshop with artist Andrea Modica will examine the formal, conceptual, and even equipment choices photographers can use to create meaning in the photographic portrait. Andrea will share her own work and present photographs by practitioners throughout the history of photography, to frame an exploration of fact and fiction in the photographic portrait, and all that lies between. Please note that the definition of portrait is quite open for interpretation!
Students should plan bring three (3) physical portrait-based 8 ½ x 11” work prints from their portfolios, as well as two (2) books of work by portrait photographers they admire. Students will also be sent a reading to complete in advance, which will undoubtedly inspire and inform a lively group discussion.
About the Instructor
Andrea Modica lives in Philadelphia, where she works as a photographer and teaches at Drexel University. A graduate of the Yale School of Art, she is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fulbright Scholar. Her books include Treadwell (Chronicle Books), Barbara (Nazraeli), Minor League (Smithsonian Press), Human Being (Nazraeli), Fountain (Sintehour Editions), L’Amici del Cuore (Nazraeli), As We Wait (L’Artiere Editions), January 1 (L’Artiere Editions), Lentini (Kris Graves Projects) Reveal (Yoffy Press), 2020 (TIS Books) and Theatrum Equorum (TIS Books) and Catholic Girl (L’Artiere Editions).
Modica’s solo exhibitions include the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art and the San Diego Museum of Photographic Arts. Her photographs are part of the permanent collections of numerous institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the International Museum of Photography and Film at the George Eastman House, and the Bibliotheque Nationale.