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This 3-hour photography workshop (including travel time to Fort Gorges)  will include the use of three experienced models as well as having the opportunity to work with them at Fort Gorges, Portland's historic fort, now a city park.  Ann Tracy, a Portland photographer whose work has been exhibited internationally, will lead the workshop, dividing the photographers into groups and assigning models to those groups.

This workshop is a fundraiser for Friends of Fort Gorges to improve this historic city park so more people can access it.  

"Fort Gorges is a former United States military fort built on Hog Island Ledge in Casco Bay, Maine. Built from 1858 to 1864, no battles were fought there and no troops were stationed there. Advancing military technology, including iron clad ships and long range guns, made the fort obsolete before it could be used. The fort is now a park, accessible only by boat. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.^[2]  The fort was designed by Colonel Reuben Staples Smart. The chief architect in charge of construction was Thomas Lincoln Casey, who later became Chief of Engineers. It is similar in size and construction to Fort Sumter, but is built of granite instead of brick." Wikipedia

This project will help raise funds and awareness of Fort Gorges and will include a show of the work you create, curated by Tracy and Paul Drinan, Executive Director of Friends of Fort Gorges at a location TBA.  (We  hope to procure the Custom House in Portland).

The date for this workshop is May 14th and May 21st is the rain date.  There will be a limit of 15 photographers for this first workshop. Because we are dependent upon the tide as there is not a pier, we leave from a location TBA on May 14th at 4:45 pm and return to Portland at 8 pm.  If we need to use the rain date of May 21st, departure would be at 9:45 am and return at 2 pm. 

Workshop fees are $150 ($125 for members of the Maine Professional Photographers Assn.) and include payment to the models we will work with.  Fees are payable by check or credit card.  For more information, please email Ann Tracy at anntracy51@gmail.com.

Photo courtesy of Friends of Fort Gorges and Paul Drinan