Radura #02
CHRISTIAN PATTERSON
MASTERING THE PHOTOBOOK
Spring 2027
Torre di Jano (BO)
CHRISTIAN PATTERSON
Join us for a workshop hosted by the American photographer and visual artist Christian Patterson.
Through 5 packed days, students will go through everything related to photobooks. From conception to sequencing, from design to publication, students will learn from one of the most creative and experienced artists working within the medium today.
(when)
The workshops will take place in Spring 2027. We'll update the website and publish more details later in the year.
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(who)
Christian Patterson is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily with photography, books, and installation. His work has also included archival ephemera, drawings, hand-painted signs, monoprints, readymade objects, sound, and video. Patterson’s work has been described as novelistic, subjective documentary of the historical past, and it often deals with themes of the archive, authorship, memory, place, and time.
He is the author of four books: Sound Affects (2008), Redheaded Peckerwood (2011, Recontres d’Arles Author Book Award), Bottom of the Lake (2015), and Gong Co. (2024). He is a Guggenheim Fellow (2013), winner of the Grand Prix Images Vevey (2015), a New York Public Library Picture Collection Artist Fellow (2022), James Castle House resident (2023), and Pollock-Krasner Foundation grantee (2025).
His work is in the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Milwaukee Art Museum, National Gallery of Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Ogden Museum of Southern Art, and his books are in many institutional artist book collections. He was born in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin and lives in New York City.
RADURA was born out of the need for human connections within the photographic world. We see workshops not simply as learning opportunities, but as part of a larger experience centered around connecting, sharing, and socializing. We purposefully choose venues and spaces that allow us to spend our days and evenings together, talking not only about photography but also about our experiences as human beings.
We hope that RADURA will be an opportunity to connect not only with the guest photographer but with the other participants as well. We want to build, bit by bit, a small community of artists, of like-minded individuals, and most importantly, of friends.