BerlinSommerWorkshops
Peter Oehlmann und
Kai-Olaf Hesse
Walk On: Digital Metaphors of the City – Seen Constructions
This workshop is an invitation to stroll. One walks and looks around; confronted
with a blocked view, one searches for the horizon once more. A city is
meaningful, but can one identify meaningfulness within the urban hustle and
bustle of details and images beyond the well-known pictures and clich©s? What
kind of relevance and sense of place can be made? Navigating the 'Berlin stage',
we will try to capture the latent and chaoticness and apprehend the intuitive
pre-verbal. This may lead us, seeing and groping towards the beginning of some
degree of recognition and comprehension.
(lit.: Urs Stahel, Flanieren und Konstruieren, 2002)
This workshop does not aim to create a factual city portrait, nor a narrative
story. Moreover, we are looking for images (or a series of images), which
capture a visual "gut feeling" of the White Noise and the bustling
experiences of the city. This might enable us to depict, describe, articulate
and discuss the contingencies of the fluxing urbanity.
As a time-based medium, digital photography functions here as a perfect tool. On
the one hand, because it applies another level of abstraction and on the other,
it's "material dis-inhibition" does not set any limits for such a "CityScan".
Photos Kai-Olaf Hesse
Peter Oehlmann usually leads the workshops
Digital Photography and
Documentary Concepts in the Digital Age and Kai-Olaf Hesse,
The Still Image and the Built Environment at BerlinPhotoWorkshops, will both
guide participants through the city of Berlin on this one-week workshop.
Within the intensive and intimate working atmosphere of a small group we will
explore Berlin as a group and individually. The core of the workshop will be the
daily group meeting to critically edit and discuss the images from the day
before. We will focus upon the development of individual visual languages as
well as the critical application of the digital process.
Photo Peter Oehlmann
This workshop will be held in a small group of 8 to 14 participants. Each
participant will define their own individual project supported through group
discussions and the critical examination of the participant's work as it
progresses.
All interested applicants should apply by
email, attaching 5 to 10 examples of their own work and/or a link to their
personal website. They should also attach a short statement about their
photographic skills and motivation.