Pictures from Home: Long-term Photographic Enquiries

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Its title taken from the seminal photobook by Larry Sultan, this workshop will explore the possibilities of long-term photographic story-telling and its various approaches. Sultan, a photographer and educator, was known for his deeply introspective and layered explorations of home, family and suburban life, using a combination of staged and documentary images.
Inspired by Sultan’s practice, questions arise: How do we document what is closest to us without losing objectivity? How does an extended period of time shape both our image-making and our understanding of those images? We will take an analytical and reflective approach to exploring how memory, identity, homeland and domestic space can shape and re-inform personal narratives.
This workshop is ideal for those who are looking to refine a work in progress. Participants are encouraged to bring at least one ongoing series they are currently pursuing or wish to develop as a long-term project. Through collective discourse, hands-on exercises, one-on-one interactions and artist-led lectures – drawing from personal practice and other relevant works – the module invites participants to reflect on how their photographic practice can evolve, allowing new meanings and layers to emerge over time

Course leader

Sarker Protick

Target group

Photography

Video

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