BerlinSummerWorkshops 2010
The New World*…: Photographic Interventions in the Landscape
Mark Curran / Kai-Olaf Hesse (engl./dt)
This seminar series will nurture each participant's photographic
approach through a critical and technical understanding of their own and
of contemporary photographic practice as it relates to the theme of the
seminar. Framing each participants project work, the intention of the
series is to critically review, examine and question how landscape, the
human and physical, has been represented through the intervention of the
photograph.
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
- Personal one on one tutorials will be undertaken with support/input
specific to each individuals project work provided
- Nurturing technical and critical skills
- Undertake a review of recent positions taken within contemporary
photographic practice as it relates to our understanding of ‘landscape’.
Provide a historical overview and conceptual context for these recent
movements
- Address the production and post-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 outputs
- Encourage an open ended and investigative approach to photography
through the nurturing and development of a critical and creative
individual practice
- Nurture and develop an understanding of professional practice
And how?
- The workshop group will have a maximum of 10 participants
- The workshop will include a presentation on photographic practice
- The workshop will discuss of significance of technical considerations
(e.g. format) and their relationship to project work
- The facilitation of 'group crits' i.e. constructive group discussion
of/response to individual participants practice
- The provision of individual tutorials
- To undertake field trips to exhibitions/installations which reflect
upon and/or address the themes of the seminar series
How much?
570,- € incl. 19% VAT*
* A reduced fee of 499,- € incl. 19% VAT is available for students with
valid student ID
Dates
Workshop takes place in June from 21st through 26th 2010, from 10 am to
6 pm
Applications
Please apply by
April 30th by
e-mail attaching 5-10 images and/or link
to your personal website. Please include a personal statement (maximum
one A4 page) stating your photographic interests/themes and personal
goals for this seminar
* What we Bought: The New World? Scenes From The Denver Metropolitain
Area 1970-1974 is the title of the book by Robert Adams (Stiftung
Niedersachsen 1995)