Bristol Workshops in Photography

Faculty.

MARK ABBOTT BA, Univ. of Cal, Berkley - He is a photographer and martial arts expert and our digital workshops leader and all around tech wiz. Mark has 20 years of teaching experience in the martial arts at  UCAL-Berkeley & San Diego, Brown, and Harvard. He is a Personal Fitness Trainer and claims to have a very well trained dog!

 

JULIE BRIGIDI B.S. Providence College -"I love photographing children and animals because they are pure spirits, honest and natural and a constant challenge". As the Co-Founder of the Bristol Workshops in Photography, she has been exhibiting and publishing her work for more than twenty years. She loves photographing families and their pets and emphasizes the fun in photography, using film and digital imagery to get her results. She will lead workshops in photographing children, families and pets in the studio and on location with models! Her constant companion "Nina," the Fall River retriever will assist her in class.

 

STEPHAN BRIGIDI MFA, RI School of Design - Co-Founder of the Bristol Workshops studio, he has been a practicing photographer and teacher for thirty years. He has extensively exhibited his work in the US and Europe and published two books of his photography. Stephan is a Fulbright-Hays Fellow, A MacDowell Colony Fellow, and the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the RI State Council on the Arts. Stephan's work is represented in more than twenty museum collections worldwide. When not photographing, he is passionately working on environmental issues or flying about on his green Vespa!