The series of workshops in the museum continues! There will be an online event this Saturday featuring exhibition co-curators, professional photographers and art educators Maria Falconer and Paul Hill. What is important to consider when working with dance photos and videos? How to find a balance between the artist’s vision and the art in the frame? Photographers will share answers to these questions and talk about their shooting experience, peculiarities and challenges of their artistic practice.
IMPORTANT: The language of the event is English. The event will take place online in the format of a video conference, it will be possible to join after the registration using the link.
Maria Falconer – MA, MSc., Fellow of Royal Photographic Society. Maria is a freelance visual artist and teacher who originally trained in contemporary dance at Trinity Laban Conservatoire. Her commercial photographic practice specialises in the performing arts, working with choreographers and dance companies. In 2010 Maria was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society for her independent visual arts work and since then has exhibited in the UK, Europe, the US and East Asia. She is responsible for planning and implementing the first and only collaborative Dance Photography training workshops in the UK, which have been running in England and Scotland since 2017.
Paul Hill – Member of British Empire, Fellow of Royal Photographic Society, Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts. Paul worked for The Guardian and The Observer national newspapers, but turned to teaching and was made course leader of the trend setting Creative Photography at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham in 1976. That year he set up, with his late wife, Angela, of ‘The Photographers’ Place’ – the country’s first residential photography workshop – in the English Midlands. Author of Dialogue with Photography (with Thomas Cooper), Approaching Photography, White Peak Dark Peak and Corridor of Uncertainty. Between 1995 and 2010 he was professor of photography at De Montfort University, Leicester where he set up one of the first Master of Arts in Photography in the UK.
📌 August 3 (Saturday) at 3:00 p.m
📌 Registration here.