Jeremy Cowart Workshop | Nashville, TN

Just a week ago in Nashville, TN I attended Jeremy Cowart’s workshop at his Studio in the Factory. This is the first workshop I have ever attended and found myself surrounded by people who were passionate about their art form, meeting other’s in the industry and a hunger to learn from someone who has changed the way we look at photography.

Jeremy Cowart is not only a photographer but someone who has taken the gift he has been given of creating art from the creation that surrounds him and used it to impact others in a long lasting positive way. Recently he founded Help Portrait, a movement that has taken photographers into peoples lives. Focusing on photographing less fortunate people and giving a portrait that many of them have never had before. This movement has spread around the world and has given a new perspective on how we can impact the lives around us with simple acts of love and giving of our time and resources.

What did I learn from the workshop? I didn’t learn what I was expecting, instead I was inspired to not look at what I don’t have but what I do have and to put myself in situations that will be a catalyst for my creativity. What we do as artists is reflect the creation around us that is personal to us by finding beauty and emotion.

I did know a few others that were also attending the workshop, my good friends and photographer’s Ben Rollins and Kenny Nakai. I also met Jesh DeRox, someone I have looked at for inspiration and who has impacted so many with his creative process and friendship. During the workshop we were split into several groups to do a shoot and critique. The following images are a few I took during that time with our fantastic model Kasey Reed who is on her way to modeling in Japan.

Inspiration and creative processes occur when we least expect, we need to be open to creative accidents to break through our shells that hold us so tight.

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