THE SONIC BLOG Fotografie ist Kunst | Photography is Art

BerlinPhotoWorkshops has a few places left in the current Winterworkshops: Kai-Olaf Hesse offers “Power, space and images“, a reading exercise of the city. As well there is a new edition of his workshops “photo book or image series?” Forms of presentation and their context.
Max Regenbergs workshop “Urban Space – Visual Space – Free Space” deals with actuality and operation of advertisements and signs in public places.

The Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin offers a bunch of new seminars. Among others Wolfgang Zurborn’s successful workshop “The Invention of the Real” and Just Loomis’ portrait workshop “Finding Your Subject“.

In the West Wolfgang Zurborn’s Lichtblick School offers the workshop “Don´t Look At The Sun, Follow Its Light!” by Mimi Mollica, Frederic Lezmi’s the “The Digital Darkroom” and others.

Who has gathered many images over the summer and does not know what to do with it, might find some help in the winter workshops of BerlinPhotoWorkshops.

Peter Thieme’s workshop “Wege zum Bild” addresses relations of technique and design.
Eva Leitolf’s “Pictures of an Exhibition” is a workshop about exhibition concepts and forms of presentation.
Göran Gnaudschun’s “Was du siehst” deals with the question of “finding” images and an individual visual language.

These workshops and many others are available at BerlinPhotoWorkshops.

In the blurb book “The Theatre of Real Life” participants of the same titled seminar by Wolfgang Zurborn at Lichtblick School Cologne present their works created during the seminar.

“Photography allows us to encounter directly the meaningful in our everyday life. The participants worked during the 6-month seminar with their subjective preferences, following their own topics and have come to very different photographic solutions between factual documentation, complex concepts and subjective artistic interpretation.” – Wolfgang Zurborn.

The book includes works of Enrico Duddeck, Peter Feldhaus, Christine Fischer, Stefan Hammer, Susanne Heincke, Werner Mansholt and Wolfgang Sümmermann.

BerlinPhotoWorkshops present their new summer workshops 2011. Among others Eva Leitolf offers the one-week workshop “Stories” from 25th to 30th July 2011.

“We will deal in detail with the various photographic traditions of storytelling. In reference to this we will develop individual concepts and approaches for own personal projects.”

The summer academy Fotografie Forum Frankfurt offers the workshop “A life with photography” with Celina Lunsford, Artistic Director of the Photography Forum Frankfurt, on 21st and 22nd May 2011.

“The aim of this seminar is to assist you in developing your own photography starting from your current level. You will be able to figure out what matters to you when you take photos and what you have to change in your current approach.”

The Lichtblick School in Cologne offers the weekend seminar “Killing Time in Paradise” with Harvey Benge on 28th and 29th May 2011.

“In the workshop with Harvey Benge you will learn a lot about creating your own visual language. You start with generating visual ideas, followed by the editing and sequencing of the photographs found in urban life and finally the presentation of the series in exhibitions or in publications.”

Spring is just around the corner and the summer schools are not far away. For those who are looking for photographic exchange and do not want to wait for summer, there are some interesting workshops in spring 2011:

In Cologne Wolfgang Zurborn offers at Lichtblick School starting from 17th April 2011 the 6-month seminar “The Theatre of Real Life”.

In Dortmund Gerhard Kurtz from Projektraum Fotografie Dortmund provides on 26th March 2011 a one-day seminar how to from the images to the photo book.

Eva Leitolf offers from 26th March 2011 with the Berliner Verein Humanistische Fotografie a three-part workshop on long-term projects.

Kai-Olaf Hesse from BerlinPhotoWorkshops holds on 09th April 2011 the workshop “Photo Book or Photo Series? Forms of Presentation and their Context”.

Andreas Weinand puts up on 29th/30th April 2011 the two-day seminar “Flirt – a photographic approach to the people” at the New School of Photography in Berlin.

The workshop “”Neue Wege“” (German only) by Göran Gnaudschun is an opportunity to meet this exceptional artists and lecturer. Göran Gnaudschun’s seminars are characterized by their high intensity.

The focus of the half day workshop on Sunday, 17th October 2010, is the viewing of the participants projects. Göran Gnaudschun provides assistance to clarify the own visual language.

In October 2010 the new Lichtblick School starts in Cologne and offers seminars around art photography.

Among the first offerings there is the seminar “The Theatre of Real Life” by Wolfgang
Zurborn (from 10.10.2010) and a course of Frederik Lezmi about digital imaging (30./31.10.2010).

Information and pictures on the website: www.lichtblick-school.com

The Photo Book Festival Kassel and the Fotobuchtage in Hamburg showed an increasing interest in the medium photo book.

The photographers Andreas Herzau and Peter Bialobrzeski organize the workshop “The Photo Book” at the end of August 2010, which deals with the design and production of a photo book. Artistic approaches will be discussed as well as marketing strategies and technical aspects.

The photographer and book designer Kai-Olaf Hesse offers on mid of October 2010 the workshop “Photo book or photo series?” at BerlinPhotoWorkshops. This workshop addresses the prerequisites for the content and design of an image series, which shall then be brought together to construct a photo book on the basis of participant’s own works.

The workshop “”Neue Wege“” (German only) by Göran Gnaudschun is an opportunity to meet this exceptional artists and lecturer. Göran Gnaudschun’s seminars are characterized by their high intensity.

The focus of the half day workshop on Saturday, 16th Mai 2010, is the viewing of the participants projects. Göran Gnaudschun provides assistance to clarify the own visual language.