01 Aug - 23 Aug 14
DAVID MONTGOMERY (Great Britain)
01 > 07 AUGUST 2014
Montgomery is a celebrated award-winning international photographer. Heralded by Q Magazine in their recent special edition on Psycadelia as having produced some of the most iconic images of the sixties. Professor Montgomery is internationally renowned as one of the most legendary photographers of all time. Born in Brooklyn, New York, he attended photography courses run by Alexi Brodevitch in New York and worked for the award-winning photographer Lester Bookbinder for four years, following Bookbinder to England in the early 1960’s. David fell in love with the soft, romantic English light and took up residence in London, where he now continues to live and work. David is known as a portrait photographer of high profile statesmen and celebrities. Among some of his previous sitters are: HM Queen Elizabeth II, The Queen Mother, Prince Andrew, Prince Harry, Lord Mountbatten, Baroness Margaret Thatcher, Lord Hume, Edward Heath, Jack Straw, Bill Clinton, Pierre Trudeau, HM King Hussein, Cardinal Basil Hume, Andy Warhol, Lucien Freud, David Hockney, Francis Bacon, Howard Hodgkin, Josef Bouys, Bill Brant, Gilbert & George, Conrad Shawcross, Cathy de-Monchaux, Grayson Perry, Diana Ross & the Supremes, Mick Jagger, The Rolling Stones, Jimi Hendrix, Jean Shrimpton, Terence Stamp, Professor Stephen Hawking, Alfred Hitchcock, Muhammad Ali, Bing Crosby, Sir Paul McCartney, Chrissy Hinde, Pierce Brosnan, Clint Eastwood, Sean Connery, Barbara Streisand, The Clash, U2, to name a few.
Course description:
Photography has finally been accepted as an honest and interesting way of making a living as well as being acknowledged as a serious, highly expressive art form in its own right. Through digital innovation, taking photographs has never been more widely accessible. However, a chasm separates everyday, snapshot photographs with those that resonate with a subtle emotional depth approaching the condition of art. Truly great photographs combine sensitive composition with a fundamental understanding of light, shape and form. This course aims to get students mastering the basics of their cameras and learning to see SEE.
David Montgomery will take students on a journey of discovery through the mysterious world of "seeing". Paying special attention to the endless possibilities of light and the practical potential of cameras and lenses, David will present and explain the fundamental building blocks of photography while encouraging students to develop an awareness of their own personal and creative vision.
CHIEN-CHI CHANG B. (Taiwan)
“Still images can be moving and moving images can be still. Both meet within soundscape”.
09 > 15 AUGUST 2014
Born in Taiwan in 1961, Chang studied at Soochow University and at Indiana University. Chang joined Magnum in 1995 and became a full member in 2001.
In his work, Chien-Chi Chang makes manifest the abstract concepts of alienation and connection. The Chain is a collection of portraits made in a mental asylum in Taiwan. The life-sized photographs of pairs of patients literally chained together resonate with Chang’s jaundiced look at the less visible bonds of marriage. He has treated marital ties in two books - I do I do I do (2001), a collection of images depicting alienated grooms and brides in Taiwan, and in Double Happiness (2005), a brutal depiction of the business of selling brides in Vietnam.
The ties of family and of culture are also the themes of an ambitious project begun in 1992. For 20 years, Chang has photographed the bifurcated lives of Chinese immigrants in New York’s Chinatown, along with those of their wives and families back home in Fujian. A work in progress, China Town was hung at the National Museum of Singapore in 2008 as part of a mid-career survey, Doubleness. Chang’s investigation of the ties that bind one person to another draws on his own deeply divided immigrant experience.
THOMAS DWORZAK (Germany)
"Exploration of the terrirory"
18 > 22 AUGUST 2014
Thomas Dworzak wants to put his participants in a real-time situation, of doing a real job, asking each participant to be part of team. The students will be asked to come up with at least two ideas for the subject they will follow. Through a daily program of shooting, editing and sequencing with group feedbacks, Thomas Dworzak will help turning them into a better photographer, and one who thinks carefully about what they are trying to achieve. Being familiar with the Caucasus area where he led several photographic projects, Thomas Dworzak is also willing to lead participants into an exploration of their environment, supporting them with a regular analysis of the evolution of the work.