Workshop 4. Free topic: The magic in the familiar
Teachers: Iveta Vaivode (Latvia), Alexander Gronsky (Russia)
Photography is so much more than taking technically perfect images, It’s about showing your way of seeing things. Are you just having fun, or maybe you think that you can change people’s thoughts on something? While photography struggles to claim objectivity, it is a perfect tool to create your own reality. We believe that the most important thing is not the story you want to tell, but how you tell it. During the workshop we will be looking at the projects that are fictional and set up. We will discuss the notions of sublime and beautiful. Above all, this workshop is designed to help young photographers to get closer to their own photographic language. Students will be free to choose the genre they want to work with - fashion, still life, portraiture or landscape, as long as it helps to open their personal vision. The workshop will include group critiques as well as one-to-one tutorials, lectures and small assignments.
Technical requirements: there are no technical restrictions to participation. Please bring your portfolios or the work you find inspiring. We want to see were you are coming from and what truly interests you.
Iveta Vaivode was born in 1979, in Riga, Latvia. Having begun her photographic career as a fashion photographer, Iveta has recently turned her sight towards more personal, landscape-based projects. Starting from 2007 she is a lecturer at the professional photography school in Riga. In 2008 she received a BA in photography from Bournemouth Arts Institute (UK). Her photographs have been exhibited in Latvia, Lithuania, UK, France, China and Belgium. Iveta is the recipient of the following awards: 2007AOP Student Photographer of the Year, 2007 Latvia Photography Award (Design Photography of the Year), 2008 PDN Photo Annual and 2008 Nikon Discovery Award.
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Alexander Gronsky was born in 1980 in Tallinn, Estonia and is currently living in Moscow. He works for advertising agencies, corporations and humanitarian organizations. His work appeared in Time, Newsweek, Wallpaper, Geo, Economist, Stern, Der Spiegel and other prominent international editions. He was a winner of several Press Photo Russia national contests (2000-2003), and the nominee for the “Kandisky Prize” - the biggest national Russian award in contemporary art in 2008. Alexander is one of the teaching masters at the online workshops programme www.objectivereality.org. His recent personal works deal with existence in urban environment - exploration of Moscow boroughs.
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