Large format photography workshops from Open Eye and Redeye.
The second in a series of three one-day workshops to challenge and inspire you. Large format offers the ultimate in photographic quality. The workshops are aimed at anyone interested in photography, whether or not you have experience of large format.
Numbers are limited. You can book onto this workshop on its own or book all three together and save up to £30.
Workshop 2: Masterclass with John Davies, Monday 28 November 2011
This is a rare chance to join John Davies, one of the UK’s top large and medium format landscape photographers, as he discusses his ideas and techniques out and about on the Liverpool Waterfront. He will talk about different technique for colour and B&W film on large format, and compare digital to analogue. Please note that the workshop will take place whatever the weather, so bring suitable clothing. You can bring a camera if you wish but please make sure you are happy carrying it through the day.
Workshop 1: Introduction to Large Format: Monday 21 November 2011
Booking:
- Introduction to Large Format: Tickets £50 / Concessions £30. Limited to 25 places
- Masterclass with John Davies: Tickets £70 / Concessions £50. Limited to 15 people
- Build your own 10×8” Pinhole Camera: Tickets £70 / Concessions £50. Ticket price includes the cost of the camera. Limited to 8 people
Save up to £30 by booking for all three workshops: Total price £160 / Concessions £110All prices include VAT. Concessions valid for unwaged or students. Please bring proof of status.Tea and coffee are included but not lunch.All workshops run 10.30am to 5pm and take place at Open Eye Gallery, 19 Mann Island, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool, L3 1BP.
Biography
John Davies
British photographer John Davies is famous for his research on the English industrial landscape, observed in vast and detailed views.”John’s work belongs to the world of contemporary documentary photography. Faithful to a refined, pure black and white, taken on as the absolute rule of a subtle, analytic style. He chooses the vastness of space inhabited by the powerful elements of nature and the contradictory ones of culture to operate in two directions. On the one hand, the evocation of emotional states through the photographic rendering of a space-light that is alive, almost metaphysical, and recalls the symbolisation of the forces of nature in Turner. On the other, a crystal-clear gaze that sounds the material aspects of the contemporary landscape which is tied to the development of the productive activities and concrete structuring of the world through the moulding power of economy and property.” Roberta Valtorta, 2000