Imagine Wearing Handwoven
Photography and Video for Handwoven Garments
Imagine Wearing Handwoven
Photography and Video for Handwoven Garments
How can photographs and short videos capture the beauty, texture, and movement of handwoven garments? Drawing on six years of collaboration with the style magazine Tearsheet PDX, Karen Gelbard shares lessons learned from professional photo sessions and her recent explorations with short videos. Discover ways to help viewers not only see handwoven garments, but imagine wearing them.
Imagine Wearing Handwoven
Photography and Video for Handwoven Garments
You've designed the cloth, woven the fabric, and created a garment. Now, how do you capture its unique qualities in a photograph?
Photographing handwoven clothing presents special challenges. Texture, color, drape, and movement are essential to understanding a garment, yet these qualities can be difficult to convey in a still image.
In this presentation, Karen Gelbard chronicles her six-year collaboration with the style magazine Tearsheet PDX, sharing photographs created in their studio and the lessons learned along the way. She'll discuss practical considerations for photographing handwoven garments, including lighting, backgrounds, models, and composition.
Karen will also share her recent explorations into creating short videos that reveal what still photographs cannot—the movement of cloth, the changing shape of a garment, and the experience of seeing it worn.
Through photographs, video examples, and stories from behind the camera, this presentation explores ways to communicate the artistry of handwoven clothing and invite viewers to imagine themselves wearing it.
60–90-minute illustrated PowerPoint presentation, including photographs, short video examples, and time for audience questions and discussion. Available in person or remotely.
Duration / Format
Presentation Format & Technical Requirements
This presentation may be offered in person or remotely.
In-Person Presentation: The hosting organization should provide a large screen or projector suitable for displaying detailed photographs and videos, appropriate connections for the presenter's computer, and speakers for video playback. A microphone is recommended for larger audiences.
Remote Presentation: Presentations may be delivered through Zoom or a comparable online meeting platform. Arrangements for hosting and technical support will be coordinated in advance. A reliable internet connection and the ability to share video with sound are essential.
No special equipment or prior photography experience is required of participants.
Recording Policy
Presentations are intended for live viewing only. Recording, reproduction, or redistribution of the presentation or its materials is not permitted without prior written agreement.
Requests for recording permission may be considered individually, taking into account recording quality, intended use, and distribution.
Workshop Information
None
Fees & Registration
In-Person Presentation: $350, plus applicable travel expenses.
Remote Presentation via Zoom: $350.
Fees include a live PowerPoint presentation, visual examples, and time for audience questions and discussion.
For remote presentations, the fee includes routine technical preparation and coordination.
Recording or redistribution of presentations is not permitted without prior written agreement.