Sunday, October 10, 2010

The House

The bulk of this Eddie Adams Workshop takes place in the barn of the 64-acre farm, but if EAW had a heart it would be the red floored kitchen of the farmhouse where Eddie would entertain his close friends and guest speakers. Eddie’s extended workshop family continues to meet in the cozy room to laugh and trade memories. As people are adopted into the family, they’re welcomed as if they’ve always sat at the photo covered table.

The photos on that table represent 23 years of hard working, hard playing volunteers who come up for one weekend in October to give 100 students the experience of a lifetime.

As Pulitzer Prize winning photographers like Nick Ut and Michael Williamson come through the door, Najat and Roxy Naba are ready to serve Lebanese Labne and fresh mint snacks they made from scratch, and if timed right, you might get to taste Nick’s specially brewed Vietnamese coffee.

Photography is the one commonality between each person who comes through the door, and while other topics are brought up, the conversation always returns to Eddie’s passion; photography.

“This place was meant to be full of people,” said Alyssa Adams, executive producer of the Eddie Adams Workshop.

Alyssa reflects, in stark contrast to the rest of the year when the residence is an ordinary farmhouse in the Catskills, “It’s quiet, the pond is very serene, you feel like you’re floating on top of the world when you’re here. In the summer the farm feels like it’s waiting for the workshop.”

But during this cold week in October, the bonfire blazes, Bruiser the Boxer eagerly waits for scraps to fall and the community of photographers gathers in the heart of the home to continue Eddie’s tradition.


“This place was meant to be full of people,” said Alyssa Adams, executive producer of the Eddie Adams Workshop.

Alyssa reflects, in stark contrast to the rest of the year when the residence is an ordinary farmhouse in the Catskills, “It’s quiet, the pond is very serene, you feel like you’re floating on top of the world when you’re here. In the summer the farm feels like it’s waiting for the workshop.”

But during this cold week in October, the bonfire blazes, Bruiser the Boxer eagerly waits for scraps to fall and the community of photographers gathers in the heart of EAW to continue Eddie’s tradition and will for years to come.

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