workshops
2013 Workshop Programme
Developing Participatory Methods with Photography: Research, Design and Practice
This workshop will explore how to develop visual and sensory participatory research and pedagogical methods with photography. Participants will be introduced to a range of experimental action research methods, tools and media; they
will examine ethical dilemmas in visual communication and literacy, and will consider elemental skills needed for project design, management and evaluation. In addition, the group will engage and collaborate in compositional techniques
and reflective exercises that will enhance critical thinking, shared experiences and peer review.
Dates: Saturday, 1 June
Time: 10am-4pm
Equipment: Please bring a digital camera (DSLR or compact)
Price: £80 / £72 (iAVU members)
Venue: Fotosynthesis, Kennington, London
http://www.fotosynthesiscommunity.org.uk/
Tutors: David Kendall and Ingrid Guyon
About the Tutors: David Kendall's photography and research explore how spatial, economic and design initiatives, as well as participatory practices, combine to encourage social and spatial interconnections or conflict in cities. He is a graduate of LCC, University of the Arts London and Goldsmiths, University of London where he studied photography, design and urban sociology. His photographs, spatial research and collaborative projects have featured in exhibitions, festivals, conferences and symposia at museums and academic institutions worldwide. David designs advocacy projects, conducts qualitative research, spatial engagement and consultation strategies and implements media campaigns. He facilitates workshops with NGOs, charities, architects, media and educational organisations including Goldsmiths, University of London, University of the Arts London, Age UK, Ojos que Sienten, PhotoVoice, Fotosynthesis, Groundswell, Tower Hamlets Drug Action Team, Lifeline, Thomson Reuters and ARCHIVE (Architecture for Health in Vulnerable Environments). These projects consider how visual communication, digital storytelling and self-advocacy could be utilised to discover, create and question spatial and social awareness of homelessness, sensory disability, housing and health in cities. Collaborative projects combine photographic practice with other sensory techniques such as sound, touch and smell to 'map' urban and architectural environments. Since 2009, David has worked with the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths, University of London developing participatory research that considers links between cultural practice, visual sociology and citizenship. David is a director of Fotosynthesis and is a visiting research fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Ingrid Guyon was born in Arles, France and has lived and worked as a photographer, community worker and photography facilitator in London for eleven years. Her approach to the photographic medium and to the representations of cultures, news and her career has shifted after her studies in visual anthropology. She became interested in social justice and began to explore connections between participatory research and photographic self-representation and self-expression. Ingrid has delivered many participatory photography projects with many social groups in London, showcasing the resulting work in venues such as the BFI and London City Hall. In 2009 Ingrid used her expertise and connections within diverse communities in London to establish Fotosynthesis. Her aim was to encourage social inclusion and participation through photography, and to keep traditional and experimental photography processes alive. Ingrid is a director of Fotosynthesis and continues to undertake photographic assignments around the world. In 2012 UNICEF commissioned her to document educational programmes in Dominican Republic and she continues to develop projects in the region.
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This workshop will explore how to develop visual and sensory participatory research and pedagogical methods with photography. Participants will be introduced to a range of experimental action research methods, tools and media; they
will examine ethical dilemmas in visual communication and literacy, and will consider elemental skills needed for project design, management and evaluation. In addition, the group will engage and collaborate in compositional techniques
and reflective exercises that will enhance critical thinking, shared experiences and peer review.
Dates: Saturday, 1 June
Time: 10am-4pm
Equipment: Please bring a digital camera (DSLR or compact)
Price: £80 / £72 (iAVU members)
Venue: Fotosynthesis, Kennington, London
http://www.fotosynthesiscommunity.org.uk/
Tutors: David Kendall and Ingrid Guyon
About the Tutors: David Kendall's photography and research explore how spatial, economic and design initiatives, as well as participatory practices, combine to encourage social and spatial interconnections or conflict in cities. He is a graduate of LCC, University of the Arts London and Goldsmiths, University of London where he studied photography, design and urban sociology. His photographs, spatial research and collaborative projects have featured in exhibitions, festivals, conferences and symposia at museums and academic institutions worldwide. David designs advocacy projects, conducts qualitative research, spatial engagement and consultation strategies and implements media campaigns. He facilitates workshops with NGOs, charities, architects, media and educational organisations including Goldsmiths, University of London, University of the Arts London, Age UK, Ojos que Sienten, PhotoVoice, Fotosynthesis, Groundswell, Tower Hamlets Drug Action Team, Lifeline, Thomson Reuters and ARCHIVE (Architecture for Health in Vulnerable Environments). These projects consider how visual communication, digital storytelling and self-advocacy could be utilised to discover, create and question spatial and social awareness of homelessness, sensory disability, housing and health in cities. Collaborative projects combine photographic practice with other sensory techniques such as sound, touch and smell to 'map' urban and architectural environments. Since 2009, David has worked with the Centre for Urban and Community Research, Goldsmiths, University of London developing participatory research that considers links between cultural practice, visual sociology and citizenship. David is a director of Fotosynthesis and is a visiting research fellow at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Ingrid Guyon was born in Arles, France and has lived and worked as a photographer, community worker and photography facilitator in London for eleven years. Her approach to the photographic medium and to the representations of cultures, news and her career has shifted after her studies in visual anthropology. She became interested in social justice and began to explore connections between participatory research and photographic self-representation and self-expression. Ingrid has delivered many participatory photography projects with many social groups in London, showcasing the resulting work in venues such as the BFI and London City Hall. In 2009 Ingrid used her expertise and connections within diverse communities in London to establish Fotosynthesis. Her aim was to encourage social inclusion and participation through photography, and to keep traditional and experimental photography processes alive. Ingrid is a director of Fotosynthesis and continues to undertake photographic assignments around the world. In 2012 UNICEF commissioned her to document educational programmes in Dominican Republic and she continues to develop projects in the region.
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Urban Landscape Photography
A simple way of categorising landscape would be to divide it into urban (i.e. the built environment) and countryside (i.e. ‘nature’ somewhere beyond the city boundary), with suburban landscape as a kind of buffer zone between the two. But on a closer look, this division is not so simple. The countryside almost everywhere in the UK has been shaped by human use over centuries. On the other hand, ‘nature’ can be found right in the heart of the city. Rivers and canals, transport routes and surviving continuous woodland can all connect the inner city directly with rural areas. This workshop will focus on this ‘urban nature’, by walking along part of an urban river – the Ravensbourne - and tracing it as it passes through residential and former industrial areas of Deptford – where it is known as Deptford Creek - until it enters the Thames. The walk will be at low tide, when the tidal Creek reveals treasures of all kinds.
The challenge for the photographer in this two-session workshop will be to reveal the juxtaposition of ‘urban’ and ‘nature’, to show that they co-exist and are not mutually exclusive. Participants will need to bring a camera (digital or film) on the walk. They will show and discuss each others’ work during the second session, a week later. Please Note: As well as a (fully charged) camera (and film or memory card) please be prepared for wet and/or cold weather, as we will still do the walk if it is raining. Rain provides interesting challenges, as well as multiplying visual information.
Dates: Sat, 16 February & Sat, 23 February (2 day workshop)
Time: 10am-1pm
Equipment: Please bring a digital (DSLR or compact) or film camera
Price: £80 / £72 (iAVU members)
Venue: Goldsmiths, University of London
Tutor: Peter Coles
About the Tutor: Peter Coles is a photographer and writer with a special interest in the ‘urban biosphere’, as well as countryside that has been shaped by humans, such as ancient woodland. As a staff editor and photojournalist for the UNESCO Courier in Paris, he carried out reporting assignments on the urban biosphere in Cape Town, New York, Chicago, and New Orleans, as well as pursuing his personal work in Paris, where he lived for 20 years. He has travelled extensively for his work, from the purity of Antarctica to its opposite, Chernobyl, and developed a special interest in traditional knowledge in India, Africa and the South Pacific. Peter originally trained as a psychologist, first at Manchester University, where he wrote his MA on the psychology of art, then at Oxford University, where he wrote a D.Phil on visual perception. In the early 1980s he was active in the public art movement in the UK, and was a Visiting Tutor in Design Research at the Royal College of Art. Peter moved back to London in 2006 and took up a Visiting Fellowship at Goldsmiths CUCR in January 2007. He has exhibited in Paris, London, Rome and New York and has published in various newspapers and magazines.
Film-making for Ethnographers
This 4 day introductory workshop to film-making for ethnographers will provide a basic introduction to film-making. It will cover the fundamental skills needed to plan, film and edit your research film, adding impact and depth to your projects and presentations. If you’ve always wanted to include film in your research but don’t know where to start or you want to build on early experience, this is the course for you.
The course will include a brief history of ethnographic film and an overview of practical and theoretical concerns. From this basis participants will have the opportunity to make their own ethnographic films, working in small groups to record audio and video footage and editing using Final Cut Pro. All equipment is designed for simplicity of use and little or no experience of film-making is not a barrier to entry. Participants will be provided with portable, digital hand-held video and audio equipment with which to work. The final day of the course will include a screening of the films followed by feedback and discussion.
Dates: TBC
Time: 10am-4pm
Equipment: Digital hand-held video cameras and audio recorders will be provided
Price: £320 / £288 (iAVU members)
Venue: Goldsmiths, University of London
Tutor: Claire Levy
About the Tutor: With 12 years within the British broadcasting industry and 2 RTS nominations for documentary, Claire works as a film-maker, visual researcher and urban wanderer. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths College. Claire’s work ranges from self-shooting director, specialising in documentary, urban photographer and visual researcher with particular interest in young people. She also works as digital storytelling facilitator for Digitales, based within the Department of Media and Communication at Goldsmiths and currently lectures at the University of Middlesex.
This 4 day introductory workshop to film-making for ethnographers will provide a basic introduction to film-making. It will cover the fundamental skills needed to plan, film and edit your research film, adding impact and depth to your projects and presentations. If you’ve always wanted to include film in your research but don’t know where to start or you want to build on early experience, this is the course for you.
The course will include a brief history of ethnographic film and an overview of practical and theoretical concerns. From this basis participants will have the opportunity to make their own ethnographic films, working in small groups to record audio and video footage and editing using Final Cut Pro. All equipment is designed for simplicity of use and little or no experience of film-making is not a barrier to entry. Participants will be provided with portable, digital hand-held video and audio equipment with which to work. The final day of the course will include a screening of the films followed by feedback and discussion.
Dates: TBC
Time: 10am-4pm
Equipment: Digital hand-held video cameras and audio recorders will be provided
Price: £320 / £288 (iAVU members)
Venue: Goldsmiths, University of London
Tutor: Claire Levy
About the Tutor: With 12 years within the British broadcasting industry and 2 RTS nominations for documentary, Claire works as a film-maker, visual researcher and urban wanderer. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Urban and Community Research at Goldsmiths College. Claire’s work ranges from self-shooting director, specialising in documentary, urban photographer and visual researcher with particular interest in young people. She also works as digital storytelling facilitator for Digitales, based within the Department of Media and Communication at Goldsmiths and currently lectures at the University of Middlesex.
Street Portraiture
This workshop will focus on street-based photographic portraiture. Participants will be introduced to a range of approaches within the genre through a short historical and theoretical introduction at Goldsmiths College in the morning, followed by a discussion of the main points and participants’ experiences of street portraiture. After an assignment briefing and trip via Overground to London’s East End area, participants will work in small groups to make a series of street portraits that explore notions of presence, engagement and the relationship between psyche and environment. After lunch, participants will head back to Goldsmiths where they will share their work and receive feedback from the tutor and group.
Date: TBC
Time: 10am-4pm
Equipment: Please bring a digital camera (DSLR or compact)
Price: £80 / £72 (iAVU members)
Venue: Goldsmiths, University of London
Tutor: Paul Halliday
About the tutor: Paul Halliday is a photographer, film-maker and urban sociologist based in the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths, University of London as Course Leader of the international MA in Photography and Urban Cultures. After training in photojournalism and film-making, he went on to study social anthropology, art history and social psychology. His visual practice is concerned with what he describes as a ‘critical urbanism’; an approach to photographing urban spaces that draws on the social science traditions of ethnography, social psychology and cultural geography. Paul worked for many years in adult education, arts development and human rights campaigning, working for the British Refugee Council as a media adviser. His street portraits were recently exhibited as part of the Horniman Museum’s The Body Adorned exhibition.
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