Photography Workshop with Stefan Koppelkamm
Stephen Koppelkamm from Berlin will be holding a photography workshop in Bangalore at the Max Mueller Bhavan from July 25th- August 4th.
Stefan Koppelkamm will be in Bangalore to inaugurate an exhibition of posters of his own project: Ortszeit/Local Time at the Bhavan and will take the opportunity to guide a group of Bangaloreans in the quest for "Places I Like".
Event: Places I Like - Photography Workshop by Stefan Koppelkamm
Date: July 25 - August 14, 2009
Venue: Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan & on location in Bangalore
Maximum number of participants: 15
Registration fee: Rs. 1000
Eligibility: Open to local photographers (professional and hobby) living and working in Bangalore
Applicants should send in a resumé with reasons for wanting to participate, suggestions for the workshop project if available, and samples of their work, before July 10, 2009 to director@bangalore.goethe.org. Please note that attachments in a single mail should not exceed 2 MB. Selected participants will be informed by July 15, 2009.
Further details at the Bhavan: 2520 5305/6/7/8 and on our website: www.goethe.de/bangalore
The objective of the workshop in the first place is to define the subjective and personal criteria that determine the "quality of life" in a city. The focus should therefore be more on the routine and normal, rather than the unusual. Social aspects of the city (neighbourliness, the presence of smaller stores and cottage industries, etc.) that are not immediately discernible to outsiders are more important than "good" architecture and design.
The participants will be required to seek out such places in the city, before the commencement of the workshop and at the first session, present "his" or "her" place/s in word and visual. Participants will be expected to bring their own equipment. The next step during the workshop would be to describe these places using photographic methods, such that others can recognise the intrinsic qualities of these places, which may not be visible at first glance. This can happen with a still or video camera, but also with texts, interviews and sounds.
The workshop will result in an exhibition at the Bhavan and perhaps documentation in the form of a booklet or a "newspaper". It could even help in making clear the qualities of certain places or buildings that have no lobby, and provide a defence against urban planning, that all too often is based on criteria alien to the residents of the locality.
Stefan Koppelkamm lives in Berlin and works as a graphic artist, exhibition designer and photographer. He has taught visual communication at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee since 1993. Since the publication of his book "Glasshouses and Wintergardens of the Nineteenth Century" (London/New York 1981), Koppelkamm has been involved with historical and contemporary aspects of architecture and the urban environment as photographer and author. After publishing "Ortszeit/ Local Time" he has shifted his main focus to artistic photography.
Stefan Koppelkamm will be in Bangalore to inaugurate an exhibition of posters of his own project: Ortszeit/Local Time at the Bhavan and will take the opportunity to guide a group of Bangaloreans in the quest for "Places I Like".
Event: Places I Like - Photography Workshop by Stefan Koppelkamm
Date: July 25 - August 14, 2009
Venue: Goethe-Institut/Max Mueller Bhavan & on location in Bangalore
Maximum number of participants: 15
Registration fee: Rs. 1000
Eligibility: Open to local photographers (professional and hobby) living and working in Bangalore
Applicants should send in a resumé with reasons for wanting to participate, suggestions for the workshop project if available, and samples of their work, before July 10, 2009 to director@bangalore.goethe.org. Please note that attachments in a single mail should not exceed 2 MB. Selected participants will be informed by July 15, 2009.
Further details at the Bhavan: 2520 5305/6/7/8 and on our website: www.goethe.de/bangalore
The objective of the workshop in the first place is to define the subjective and personal criteria that determine the "quality of life" in a city. The focus should therefore be more on the routine and normal, rather than the unusual. Social aspects of the city (neighbourliness, the presence of smaller stores and cottage industries, etc.) that are not immediately discernible to outsiders are more important than "good" architecture and design.
The participants will be required to seek out such places in the city, before the commencement of the workshop and at the first session, present "his" or "her" place/s in word and visual. Participants will be expected to bring their own equipment. The next step during the workshop would be to describe these places using photographic methods, such that others can recognise the intrinsic qualities of these places, which may not be visible at first glance. This can happen with a still or video camera, but also with texts, interviews and sounds.
The workshop will result in an exhibition at the Bhavan and perhaps documentation in the form of a booklet or a "newspaper". It could even help in making clear the qualities of certain places or buildings that have no lobby, and provide a defence against urban planning, that all too often is based on criteria alien to the residents of the locality.
Stefan Koppelkamm lives in Berlin and works as a graphic artist, exhibition designer and photographer. He has taught visual communication at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee since 1993. Since the publication of his book "Glasshouses and Wintergardens of the Nineteenth Century" (London/New York 1981), Koppelkamm has been involved with historical and contemporary aspects of architecture and the urban environment as photographer and author. After publishing "Ortszeit/ Local Time" he has shifted his main focus to artistic photography.
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