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Impressions of Home: Guided Photo Walk with Payton Burkhammer

Category: Event Calendar

Date and Time

  • Saturday, Apr 26, 2025  1pm - 3pm

Location

Akron Soul Train
191 S Main St

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Details

Rediscover downtown Akron through a fresh lens on a photography walk, guided by Akron Soul Train resident artist Payton Burkhammer. With a focus on memory and minutiae, this tour will broaden your technical and emotional approach when capturing familiar spaces. Bring the camera of your choice and enjoy this peaceful walk around Akron.

At each stop, participants will be given a photography prompt that challenges them to reflect on the way they view the locations and gives them a new technical approach to use with their cameras.

  • Possible Prompts for Photo Walk:
    • Intentionality: if this were gone tomorrow, how would you show it to someone? If you imagine this space in your head, what do you see? Try to capture this space in a way that precisely matches your imagination.
    • Details: What photo reflects what it’s like to actually be here? Is it the surface of the water? The texture of the benches? The color of the bricks?
    • Frame within a frame: find a way to outline what you’re intending to shoot. Explore a unique perspective and use it as a guide. 
    • Negative Space: How can we show the whole picture? How does framing force our attention? Find where your mind initially goes, then challenge it, and add space to it.

Participants are reminded to dress comfortably and for the weather. This walking tour will proceed rain or shine. All registrants are asked to meet at Akron Soul Train, 191 S. Main Street location across from LOCK 3.

Save the Date for Payton's upcoming exhibition: Last Place In The World Research Exhibit

On View at Akron Soul Train May 21 - June 14, 2025

An award-winning indie filmmaker, Payton Burkhammer is based in Akron, Ohio, and has earned accolades such as Best Narrative Film at the Highland Square Film Festival and the Audience Choice Award at the Short Sweet Film Festival. She is a founding member of Girl Set Cleveland and has participated in programs like the Cleveland Indie Film Incubator. Through this residency, she aims to take a major step in her film career while celebrating the Midwest's distinctive charm and storytelling potential.