2005 Summer Workshop #1
Fundamentals of B&W Photography
Mineral de Pozos, Mexico

May 18-22, 2005

Photography Instructor: Geoff Winningham

At the beginning of the twentieth century, Mineral de Pozos was an opulent colonial mining city of over sixty thousand inhabitants. After the revolution of 1910, the population of the city dropped to near zero, most of the working mines were abandoned, and Pozos became a ghost town. By the 1960’s, a few families – mostly goat-herders and cooperative farmers – had resettled in the town or the surrounding countryside. A few artists and photographers had discovered the town, returning again and again seeking to render its forlorn beauty, its elaborate mining ruins, and its rugged, cactus-filled landscape.

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