WORKSHOP
real / ideal

Contemporary Photography Workshop by Viktoria Binschtok, Berlin

Fri, 15.11.2019 -
Sun, 17.11.2019
Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Auditorium

Goethe-Institut / Max Mueller Bhavan Chennai in cooperation with Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation  invites participants to register for a 3 day  workshop on CONTEMPORARY PHOTOGRAPHY by Viktoria Binschtok, Berlin.

Concept: Photographs are omnipresent in our urban and social environments. We encounter them online and offline on many levels. The boundaries between commercial images and all others are fluid. In the three-day workshop, the mentor will explore the relationship between the public image and the public space in which it is embedded: what do these mostly idealized representations represent (when we ignore the text level)?

• Are there recognizable cultural codes or are the images universally readable?
• How can these images or image fragments be combined with their surroundings in order to create our own photograph?

Day 1: introduction, short theoretical presentation, collecting ideas, getting started
 
Day2: discussion of the first results, intensive practical part in the urban space, meeting
 
Day3: analysis of the material, selection process, choice of presentation (print or projection)

• Age Limit: The workshop is open to all interested people aged 16 and above.
• Requirements:

1. mobile phone/tablet and/or laptop for research online
2. pre-installed photoshop/photo editing software on laptop/tablet/mobile phone
3. attendance all on all days mandatory

• Cost: Nil (Lunch provided all 3 days for indoor sessions)
• Participation via application (details below)
• Last date for application: 1st November 2019
• Selected participants will be informed by 6th November

About the mentor:

Viktoria Binschtok reflects on the medium of photography in her photographic work and uses subtle shifts of context to address the function and representation of images. She makes equal use of both her own photographs and images from the internet and other media sources.

Binschtok’s works have been presented in numerous exhibitions in Germany and abroad, including at C/O Berlin, Kunstverein Göttingen, Centre Pompidou Metz, Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau Dresden, Arts Santa Monica Barcelona,Frankfurter Kunstverein, and Les Rencontres d’Arles. In 2013 her artist’s book World of Details was published and was nominated for the aperture foundation First Photobook Award.
 
Binschtok was born in 1972 in Moscow. She grew up in West Germany and studied photography and free arts at the Leipzig Academy of Visual Arts. Viktoria Binschtok lives and works in Berlin.  

How to apply

• Send email to workshops@chennaiphotobiennale.com
• Subject: Application for ‘real/ideal’ Workshop
• Body:

1. Name:
2. Age:
3. Occupation:
4. Why you would like to attend this workshop (less than 100 words):
5. For Student(s)
   • Name of School/University (if applicable):
   • Which year of the course in currently:
   • Name of course: