'I can't tell you the truth... only what I know'
Mark Curran (engl./dt)
In the intimate environment of a small group setting, this seminar
series will nurture each individual participant's evolving photographic
practice through both a critical understanding of their own practice and
positioning contemporary documentary photographic practice in the
context of historical photographic movements.
For whom?
Professional photographers, Students of photography, Artists using
photography, Individuals with a multimedia background, interested
amateurs and other interested parties with knowledge of photographic
practice
With a basic technical understanding in the application of analogue
and/or digital technologies
And what?
- Each participant will produce a self-initiated series of images or
continue on a project in progress over the course of the seminar series
- Provide tutorials and critical support/input specific to each
individuals project work
- Nurture technical, critical and theoretical skills, which supports an
informed photographic practice
- Undertake a review of recent thematic positions within contemporary
photographic practice Provide a historical overview and context for
these recent movements
- Provide and overview of key theoretical discourse and photographic
practice as a means of providing further context for contemporary
practice
- Address the production of work and the role of editing
- Address the means for the dissemination of participants work through
for example, publication, exhibition or web-based hypermedia outputs
- Encourage an open ended and investigative approach to photography
- Nurture and develop a critical and creative practice
- Nurture and develop an understanding of professional practice
And how?
- Each seminar group will have a maximum of 10 participants
- Each seminar will include a presentation on contemporary practice
- Each seminar will discuss of significance of technical considerations
(e.g. format) and their relationship to project work
- The facilitation of 'group crits' – constructive group discussion
of/response to individual participants practice
- The provision of individual tutorials
- To undertake studio visits (when possible)
- To undertake field trips to exhibitions/installations which reflect
upon and/or address the themes of the seminar series
- The possibility of specialist presentations by visiting practitioners
And when?
2 days / monthly over 3 months (6 days in total)
How much?
570,- € incl. 19% VAT
(per day per participant 95,- €)
Dates
April 18/19 2009
May 30/31 2009
July 4/5 2009