Vision and Technique
The Creative Process in Photography
Workshop Details:
Vision and Technique: The Creative Process in Photography
Name : Vision and Technique: The Creative Process in Photography
Instructors: Greg Marinovich and Santanu Chakraborty
Duration and Format:
Two Consecutive Weekends - 4 days spread over two weekends (3 hrs per day)
The time in between is used for assignments and asynchronous interaction.
Date and Time:
November 18,19 and 25,26 - 2023
11:00 Hrs Eastern Standard Time (USA)
08:00 Hrs Pacific Standard Time (USA)
16:00 Hrs London Time (UK)
17:00 Hrs Berlin Time (Germany)
21:30 Hrs New Delhi Time (India)
Mode of Delivery: Delivered online
Camera/Equipment Pre-requisites :
All camera and imaging systems welcome. From Cellphones to DSLRs and Mirrorless cameras. From simple analog cameras (35mm SLR’s and rangefinders) all the way to large format 8x10 cameras.
A laptop or a computer with a large screen (13in or more) is highly recommended.
Cost :
USD 499.00 total for 4 weekend days and 5 intervening days of asynchronous feedback.
Students get a flat discount of 25%.
Need based scholarships available. Please get in touch to discuss.
Payment and Registration:
Registrations require payment of the full tuition amount. To pay and register use the following link:
https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/eruditallc?locale.x=en_US
For questions about payments please contact the co-ordinator Priyanshu Singh at singh.priyanshu@gmail.com
Cancellations:
Cancellations upto 2 days before the workshop receive a full refund. Cancellations with the workshop start date 2 days or less away receive a 70% refund. Cancellations on the start day of the workshop or later will not be refunded.
Contact :
For questions about the workshop please email
Description
An intensive 4 day workshop ( 2 taught days, 5 intervening days for projects/assignments and asynchronous feedback, 2 taught days) on the foundational techniques and concepts of photography taught by the Pulitzer prize-winning documentary and conflict photographer Greg Marinovich and the photographer, art historian and scientist Santanu Chakraborty.
Students will be taught the fundamental techniques and craft of photography, and how these are best suited to a modern usage. They will be guided to analyze and experiment in several genres of photography, as well as exploring the fascinating intersections between science, technology and art.
A firm unity between technique and concept lies at the core of this course. Students will work through a rigorous set of exercises and a short project to cement the learning of fundamental concepts so that they can make strong images and conceptualize ambitious projects with a variety of equipment. All of this under the constant guidance of world class faculty who, between them, have taught in various capacities at Harvard University, Boston University and National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Bangalore; as well as workshops and masterclasses around the globe.
The workshop will be split over two weekends. After the end of the first two days (the first weekend- Saturday week 1, Sunday week 1) students will be given a week to shoot a personal project under the guidance of the instructors. Submissions will be critiqued by the renowned instructors.
Sessions are a total of 3 hours divided into four 45 minute lectures with brief breaks.
About the Instructors
Greg Marinovich
Greg Marinovich is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist, filmmaker and co-author of The Bang Bang Club, a nonfiction book on South Africa’s transition to democracy that has been translated into six languages and made into a feature film.
He spent 25 years covering conflict around the globe, with his writing and photographs appearing in magazines and newspapers worldwide. His images are in the permanent collection of MoMA San Francisco and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston as well as various private collections around the world.
His 2012 award-winning investigation into the Marikana massacre of miners by police was called the most important South African journalism post Apartheid, the book was published January 2016.
Marinovich was Editor-In-Chief of the Twenty Ten project, tutoring and managing over 100 African journalists’ work in all forms of media. He gives lectures and workshops on human rights, justice photography and storytelling. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University in 2013/14 and currently teaches visual journalism and film-making at Boston University’s Journalism course.
Santanu Chakraborty
Santanu Chakraborty is an art historian, photographer, engineer and scientist who brings a strong interest in art, its role in human life, and its educational potential. He has taught photography for over a decade in venues including the National Gallery of Modern Art (Bangalore), the UNBOX Festival (New Delhi) and multiple other institutions and private spaces. He has worked as a freelance photographer and videographer for commercial clients as well as NGOs alongside his artistic pursuits in photography.
He studied civil engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay, India), biological sciences and bioengineering at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and Columbia University (New York, USA) and history of art at Visva Bharati University (Santiniketan, India).
His photographic works have been shown at the Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath (Bangalore), the Jehangir Art Gallery, and the Piramal Art Gallery - National Center For Performing Arts (Bombay) as well as publications such as Verve, Tasveer Arts Journal, OneInTwenty and The Stand.
Apart from his photographic pursuits Santanu has worked in multiple areas of human inquiry: on mechanisms of short-term memory in neural circuits (at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), NY, USA), on the genomics of autism spectrum disorders and epigenetic imprinting in the brain (at CSHL) and on the neural mechanisms of short term memory (at CSHL and Princeton University, USA) and on the mechanisms of earthquake resistance in Himalayan structures (at IIT Roorkee), on the nature of Himalayan pilgrimages and changing notions of the divine and on the philosophies underlying art movements (at Santiniketan). He has been associated with media houses such as the Bangalore Mirror and The Hindu – Business Line, where he wrote popular articles on science and its close connections to art. Bringing important concepts, as well as, new developments to readers in an accessible manner.
Santanu brings a strong interest in interdisciplinary learning to his photographic teaching - stressing the unity of concept and technique, the many overlaps between the arts and the sciences - in the pursuit of an individual creative vision. He also brings expertise in multiple forms of photography from bleeding edge of digital and algorithmic technologies to the much beloved black and white and analog photographic forms of the past which are now seeing a great resurgence.
