Workshop 1: Fictional stories: The language of facts in photography
Teacher: Peeter Linnap (Tallinn, Tartu, Estonia)
The current workshop proceeds from photography’s central status as a medium producing mostly factual information. The major task of the project is to show how easy it is to compose completely fictional stories using the „evidence”: truly found natural or man made objects. In this project, photographer will take a position of an ethnographer, a journalist or a reasearcher to make us believe that, e.g., some extra-terrestial objects are kept in Latvian military bases, some unknown animals have once inhabitated the locuses, etc. Photographs, found objects and texts together will be used to complete these tasks.
Requirements/technique: DSLR cameras are preferable; you are welcome to take laptops with image processing software (Preview, Adobe Photoshop with Raw image converter to TIFF). If might be useful to also bring a flash light and some extra lens (e.g., macrolens).
Peeter Linnap (1960) is a professor and a head of photography department at Tartu Art College. He has been active as an international artist, curator, and a theorist. Peeter’s Ph.D. thesis “Photology” was completed at Tartu Uni Semiotics department in 2006 and produced as a monograph. He was one of the establishers of both Estonian university level photography departments in Tallinn and Tartu. A member of AICA, FIPRESCI, Semitoic Society, Art Historians Association, Artist Union etc.