Visual narratives: European borderlines

Teachers: Vanessa Winship and George Georgiou

The workshop will start a long-term project with the same title, with participanting young artists coming from Latvia, Turkey, Iceland and Portugal. For a period of 9 months thereafter, each of the participants will be engaged in creating a documentary project, linking together their own and another project country. The results will be summarised in a joint visual narrative – documentation of “European borderlines”. The final project output will represent an exploration of differences and similarities, contrasts and likeness, frontiers and borderlines, both geographical and human – a visual narrative on the countries lying on the georaphical borders of Europe.

The workshop will focus on all aspects of visual story-telling, including usage of text with the images. It will set the direction for further individual work for project participants. As a practical exercise, an intermediate result will be created – each participant will come up with a story exploring the “European Borderlines” in Kuldīga.

NB! THIS WORKSHOP IS FOR PROJECT PARTICIPANTS ONLY - YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHERS FROM LATVIA, TURKEY, ICELAND AND PORTUGAL. THE APPLICATIONS TO TAKE PART IN THE PROJECT ARE CURRENTLY OPEN. FOR MORE INFORMATION, SEE HERE.

© George Georgiou, Faultlines, Turkey East/West, 2006