The WORTHLESSSTUDIOS Photographer in Residence program is a unique 1 month long photography residency taking place inside a mobile darkroom Airstream trailer. Since 2019, the Airstream trailer has traveled the nation to serve as a darkroom and community resource for keeping analog photography alive and thriving. Unlike other residencies that require artists to travel to them, this residency brings the facilities to you!
This residency expands on WORTHLESSSTUDIOS’ comprehensive approach to helping artists realize their creative visions while ensuring they have resources to advance their skills and careers. This program provides support for artists working in a photography based artistic practice that relies heavily on access to a darkroom facility.
Applications are received and reviewed on a rolling basis. This portal does not allow you to save your work so please begin the application when all your responses and materials are already compiled.
DETAILS
Who: Emerging photographers looking to utilize a private darkroom facility to enhance their practice and advance their body of work
Where: Anywhere within a 3 hour drive from Brooklyn, NY
When: October 2024 - March 2026
What we offer
Access to Airstream Darkroom for up to 6 weeks
$1,500 Artist Stipend
5 Rolls of 35mm Film
Darkroom Chemistry
3 Boxes of Photo Paper
Sponsored by Brooklyn PrintWorks
High-end film scanning
Hands-on digital printing introduction
What artists MUST contribute
In an effort to push you deeper into your practice and maximize your use of the darkroom resource, this residency requests a minimum of 20 hours/week in the Airstream.
10 original photographs during your time in residency that document yourself, your time in residency, the Airstream and the Airstream situated in its surrounding environment.
Collaborative production in an open studio event or a single public program. (i.e community photowalk, youth darkroom tutorial, local artist photography critique)
Video and written testimonial about your experience in the residency to be published on WORTHLESSSTUDIOS’ website.
A Mobile Darkroom
A unique offering of this residency is the mobile darkroom, which is housed in a purpose-built 1973 Airstream. We tow the darkroom to our resident photographers so they can have ease of access near home or in a specific site or community that they wish to document or be within as part of their process.
Fall 2024 Resident Testimonials
We are very fortunate to have had two enthusiastic and disciplined photographers take up residency this year to inaugurate the new iteration of our analog photography programming, the Photographer In Residence program. Roy Baizan and Amina Gingold spent day after day in the Airstream Darkroom creating new works, experimenting, and deepening their skills. They both took full advantage of the program, spending over a hundred hours each in the darkroom during their residency.
Roy Baizan
October 2024, Hunt’s Point, Bronx, NY
Website: roybaizan.com
Instagram: @roybaizan
“I'm very fortunate to come into this conversation of photographers that [have] been doing this for so long… we talk about the Ricky Flores of the South Bronx, David Gonzalez, the Abigail Montes, Willie Dynamite… the whole list of Bronx photographers that are really active and all have a very similar mission of putting a shine on the borough and showing the love to the borough that has been through it all, you know?”
-Roy Baizan
Amina Gingold
November 2024, Levittown, NY
Website: aminagingold.com
Instagram: @aminagingold
“Having access to the WORTHESSSTUDIOS’ Airstream was just really beneficial [because you develop] a 24 hour workflow… so then you can just continue to be creative, like you continue to think about a photo, try something out even if you can't think of an idea, and then you make something that just evolves.”
-Amina Gingold
THE AIRSTREAM ARCHIVE
Our residency requires resident photographers to add their original photographs to the growing archive of the program’s central component - the Airstream!
