We are a community of photographers, artists, journalists, educators and friends focusing on longform visual storytelling, with an emphasis on building shared learning structures and connections. Since our first workshop in 2020 our community continues to grow.
APPROACH
We believe a nothing off-limits, transparent approach is the only way to move visual storytelling forward ethically. We seek to shatter the opaque, dated hierarchies of media which often limit and isolate visual creatives— instead centering process, poetics, and collaboration.
Our approach to community and skill building combines non-traditional resources; drawing from socially engaged practices, music, poetry, literature, film, trauma-informed care and critical theory to help inform how we craft visual narratives.
FOUNDED BY: BRIAN L. FRANK, SARAH BLESENER AND JENNY JACKLIN STRATTON
BEHIND THE NAME
With origins in musical terminology, the “tacet moment” is a moment of stillness and transition that sets the stage for inspiration, creation, and vision. This space of uncertainty, contradiction, and anticipation allows for a blending between boundaries of artist/audience, practitioner/participant, unifying them together in the present moment and preparing them to communicate with emotion.
Tacet Eye co-founders Sarah, Jenny, and Brian have nurtured a collaborative family for many years - a relationship built on the foundational idea that to create impactful longform storytelling, visual storytellers must rely on each other for support, from the creative and emotional to the logistical. As visual journalists and storytellers, we often found ourselves lost in what felt like an unending maze, lacking even the most basic structures to lean on. So, we leaned on each other and developed healthier approaches to collaborative work in visual media.
Tacet Eye is our desire to share and grow that support with others.
AREAS OF FOCUS
Community Building
Workshops
Long-form Project Development
Radical Publishing & Resources