Workshop 2. Studies in documentary and conceptual photography
RECONSTRUCTING HISTORY IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Teacher: Eiko Grimberg (Berlin, Germany)
Everyday life is a classic topic in the history of photography. In this course we will search for its traces in the streets of Ludza. Using documentary and conceptual strategies, we will observe and collect images of everyday life and analyse how historical changes may have influenced Ludza and its neighbourhood and work to develop them into an incisive photographic presentation.
Requirements/technique: Digital or analogue, black and white or color is unimportant. The students must have their own cameras and know how to use them.
Eiko Grimberg was born in 1971 in Karlsruhe, Germany, lives and works in Berlin and Leipzig. He received his MFA from the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig in 2003 and now is assistant professor there. Working in video and photography, his work shifts and detaches images and stories from their role as signifiers of cohesive histories. His exhibitions have been presented in the galleries of Leipzig, Zurich, Berlin and New York.