Emancipation
What is Emancipation?
Emancipation is a Photo Workshop sponsored by SOMURRAY.COM. It encourages individuals, couples or friends to Shoot It Before You Lose It.
It pushes you to capture a side of you that has never been captured on film before and in some cases if desired, challenges you beyond your inhibitions and a cheesy smile to create an artful image of yourself that fulfills a lifelong fantasy of a character or role that you have always wanted to play.
Break free of your chains and show the side of you that you have been yearning to reveal.
Shoot It Before You Lose It
Lose it doesn’t mean lose your beauty, because each stage of your life is a beautiful phase, the objective is to professionally capture each beautiful stage of your metamorphosis.
In this thing called life we also risk misfortunes, such as illness, accidents etc, or make life altering choices such as getting married or becoming a parent. We can get so caught up in our responsibilities that we lose focus on ourselves.
What Will I Learn?
Emancipation teaches you how to pose and compose a photo to evoke a reaction or to tell a story. Are you a leader, strong, courageous, dominant, rich, powerful, fierce, gentle, soft, passionate, sexy, risqué, arrogant, dominant? You have to project the story you want to capture or tell.
These are all characteristics or attributes that you either naturally possess or may want to emote in your portrait. SO MURRAY, a photographer with a background in modelling, is one of the best assets to help you achieve the result you desire.
Who or what is SOMURRAY?
S.O. MURRAY is a Media Proprietor and Creator that has a passion for photography and videography. Born in Kingston Jamaica, he is now based in Atlanta Georgia, but has taken his photography skills to Canada, several US States, the UK, Jamaica and other Caribbean islands.
When does Emancipation take place?
The first Emancipation Workshop was birthed in 2017 in the hills of St. Andrew Jamaica with 10 beautiful professional Jamaican women on Emancipation weekend on the last weekend of July before Jamaica’s Emancipation Day on August 1st. By virtue of requests from interested parties, it became an annual event.
The workshop continues to attract new participants each year. The concept was inspired from a photoshoot of a corporate executive in Robin’s Bay Jamaica on Emancipation weekend in 2016.
Where does it take place?
The location varies and is based upon how many persons are in your group or collectively booked for a session. All sessions are private so the location is never disclosed to persons who are not a part of the shoot.
How can I book a photo session?
Visit www.somurray.com/contactto personally contact SOMURRAY to schedule a session.
Policy and Protocol
If you are a part of a group session, then an online forum such as a WhatsApp group is created to share information as well as your photos. Photos are first censored to remove any unfavorable elements. A non disclosure form is signed by all participants to prevent others in the group from sharing without expresed permission. Participants are then given the opportunity to peruse all of their photos and make their selections. The selection amount will be determined by the package offered.
Once selections are made and any requests for modification or alterations completed, the photographer can then add photos from the selections of the participants to their portfolio. Portfolios may be displayed in print or a digital format on various platforms, inclusive, but not limited to websites, social media pages, electronic devices etc. If you have reservations about your photos becoming a part of a portfolio, then please decline from doing anything that may not be aligned with your wishes.
How many persons can be in a session?
We try not to book more than 10 models for a workshop.
What is the cost?
The cost depends on how many persons are in your party and what you are trying to achieve. Please contact SOMURRAY for pricing.
How can I pay?
Once you receive your invoice, you are given the option to pay using cash or any major debit or credit card via PayPal.
SO Murray's Photography Workshop teaches you how to pose for a portrait that captures your essence or best portray the emotions or thoughts you want to communicate. The objective is to freeze your current you into a life-like lifetime portrait you are proud to eternally display on your wall and of course have fun during the process of creating it.
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