This two-night workshop brings together film photography enthusiasts and image lovers for a hands-on exploration of collage as a conceptual and expressive practice.

Led by interdisciplinary artist and educator Isaiah Winters, the sessions blend critical conversation with physical making, asking participants to rethink the images they already love and collect, and to consider what happens when those images get cut apart, repositioned, and made to speak alongside other materials.

Nice Film Club will have magazines, supplies, and materials on hand so you can dive in right away. 

Night One: The Image as Fragment

The first session opens with a short discussion grounded in Isaiah's practice as a photographer, collagist, and documentary artist. Drawing on themes like the archive, recontextualization, and the quiet ideological weight of everyday imagery, the conversation will invite participants to think about found images as raw material rather than fixed documents. What does a photograph mean when it's pulled from its original context? What new meanings open up through proximity, rupture, and layering? The discussion is designed to feel accessible and generative, with room for creatives at any experience level. Then we get into it: participants will start cutting, sorting, and building from the jump, leaving Night One with materials in motion and ideas already forming on the table.

Night Two: Making It

Night Two is where things come together. Participants continue working with the materials and fragments started on Night One, assembling finished collage pieces organized around a personal theme, whether identity, memory, place, or something harder to name. The emphasis is on juxtaposition as a tool: placing the familiar against the unexpected to produce meaning that neither image could carry alone. Isaiah will move through the space offering one-on-one guidance, drawing from the same framework he brings to his students at Parsons School of Design.

Day 1 of the workshop will take place Wednesday July 22nd, 2026 from 6-8:30 at Nice Editions

Day 2 of the workshop will take place Sunday July 26th, 2026 from 4-6:30 at Nice Editions

Nice Editions

181 N 11th St.

Suite 402

BK, NY

What to Expect

A low-pressure, high-curiosity space where we can learn from one another. Nice Film Club provides the magazines, materials, and supplies to get you started. Feel free to also bring anything personal that feels charged: printed photos, film negatives, maps, receipts, old letters. No fine art background required. Just bring your hands, creative instincts, and song recommendations for a shared playlist.

We encourage all to bring their own materials as well. This can include (but not limited to) newspaper, digital prints, posters, stickers, negatives, darkroom prints, etc., 

Please be prepared to use sharp cutting tools such as Xacto blades, box cutters, and scissors. 

* We advise participants to be at least 16 years old unless accompanied by an adult.