Anders Petersen and Eva-Terez Gölin - Workshop in Athens

PHOTOGRAPHY WORKSHOP FROM NEWSCHOOL.ATHENSPHOTOGRAPHY
”CREATIVE PHOTOGRAPHY AND FINE PRINT”

New.School.Athens offers practical, vocational education for both professional and non-professionals within all new media, through intensive seminars, workshops and semester long courses. The courses are held in Athens and other parts of Greece during the whole year as well as online at www.newschoolathens.org

The school’s first programme is NewSchool.AthensPhotography which uses innovative methods to educate Scandinavian and Greek photographers of all ages from amateur to professional level.
NewSchool.AthensPhotography builds on the successful methods of professional, practical, intensive photography courses offered by the Bilder Nordic School of Photography and by the Berghs School of Communications. NewSchool.Athens’ success will be built upon an internationally reputable Greek and Scandinavian faculty, well established connections in the international job market, strict admission criteria and the latest technical platforms for workshops and online education.

The first offering is the unique workshop ”Creative Photography and Fine Print” with Anders Petersen and Eva-Terez Gölin covering two intensive weeks.
Application for Creative Photopgraphy and Fine Print
Applications are accepted via NewSchool.Athens no later then January 15, 2012

About Anders Petersen
Anders Petersen is one of Swedens most respected photographers both at home and abroad. His work is deeply rooted in a documentary tradition and he is known for his conscious approach and high contrast black-and-white imagery.

-”Photography is not about photography, really. It is very much about the human behind the camera. It is about temperament and the personality that has been formulated, no matter what you have photographed. And that is a starting point, a platform that I think I have always emanated from. That photography is as little about photography as music is about music or a book is about literature. I believe that professional skills and professionality can be a
real Achiles heel. It can take the edge out of many fantastic photographers because it becomes so incredibly perfect. And life is not perfect” says Anders.

- During his long photocareer Anders has published over 30 photobooks, has been professor at Högskolan för Fotografi och Film (school of photography) at the University of Göteborg (Gothenburg, Sweden) and has won several awards for his work including ”The Arles Contemporary Book Award for 2009″ in Arles, France for his book ”From Back Home” which he made together with JH Engström.

Read more about Anders here: Anders Petersen

About Eva-Terez Gölin
Eva-Terez has taught digital imaging to companies and photographers. For the past seven years she has taught mainly at Fotoskolan, Stockholm - Digital Imaging, Berghs - Bilder Nordic School of Photography and MittUniversitetet in Sundsvall. Eva-Terez also works for Projektor on production exhibitions for photographers and artists, on digital imaging for books and much more.

-I became interested in digital imaging when I discovered the possibilities; there are so many different paths one can take, starting with one photo where one can do changes and adjustments with a very high quality. During the workshop in Athens we will continue working with the exciting photos that the participants have taken during the first part with Anders with the goal of making prints that show what the participant want to communicate” she says.

Read more about Eva-Terez here: Eva-Terez and Projektor exhibition production here (in Swedish): Utstillingsproduktion

About ”Creative Photography and Fine Print” with Anders Petersen and Eva-Terez Gölin

The workshop is divided into two parts, Week1 with Anders and Week2 with Eva-Terez.

Week1 will be about the visual language and participants will delve deeply into creative photography together with Anders Petersen. After several days packed with photography assignments and lots of photo critique the participants will choose their favourite photos that they will digitally enhance during

Week2 with Eva-Terez Gölin.

Week1 - Creative Photography with Anders Petersen - 31 January - 4 February 2012.

Week1 focuses on you, your pictures, your project and your way of taking photographs. Together with Anders Petersen you will get the opportunity to push your own creative and subjective photography to the limit.
Starting with your own photos and working on individual assignments during the week you will make your own imagery even stronger. Inspiration, photo assignments, photocritique and photo selecting are constant throughout the week.
Anders will be showing and talking about photos in connection with photographic history and other photographers. All participants will show their portfolios to the whole class and at the end of the day receive an assignment to be completed the same day and presented the next morning.

At the end of the workshop each participant selects a number of photos that they will continue to work with in Week2, Fine Print with Eva-Terez Gölin.
- ”It is the idea of getting closer that all photography is about. To deepen the motivation that is already there within the participants. How to get closer to ones self and other people. To work for a more interesting visual result. I look at the individual and many of the assignments will be individual” says Anders about his first week of the workshop.
- Week1 is not a technical workshop - we discuss photos.
- The assignments of Week1 will be presented digitally since there will be no time to process and print the photos.
Week2 - Fine Print with Eva-Terez Gölin - 6-10 February 2012

After Week1 with Anders each participant will choose five photos they want to work with in Week2. During the week with Eva-Terez, the participants will achieve a better understanding and expertise in how to work with images - both on screen and in print - so that they are true to their original vision and ideas. Each day will consist of both theory lessons and practical work, as well as the possibility to print the day’s work in the afternoons or evenings. The following morning will start with examining the printed material and discussing what is good and what could be done to improve the print. The days will be filled with lessons in how to make your
digital files better, and on how to fine-tune your files so that they are optimal for the printer and paper you have chosen to work with.

Practical information:
- The workshop is held in English.
- Week1 is for photographers of all levels.
- Week2 is only open for those attending part1.
- Week2 is for photographers with good knowledge in Photoshop like adjustment layers, curves, Black&White points, layer masks etc.
- The main tool to be used is Photoshop CS5. You are required to bring your own laptop with Photoshop already installed. NewSchool.AthensPhotography will provide EIZO screens that can be used in addition to your own laptop to facilitate processing.

The workshop parts 1 and 2 ends with a private view and exhibition of all participant’s work from the past two weeks in a central Athens gallery.

Practical Information for Creative Photography and Fine Print
Dates:
Arrival, January 30 - 2012.
Departure, February 11 - 2012.
Week1: January 31 - February 4 with Anders Petersen.
Week2: February 6-10 with Eva-Terez Gölin.
Exhibition, February 10.

Cost:
€2300 (euro). Included in the price: 2-week workshop, accomodation at the King Jason Hotel and breakfast.
Link to King Jason Hotel:
Douros Hotels

Facilities and equipment:
The workshop will take place in a renovated industrial building in the Metaxourgeio area of central Athens on Myllerou 22. The school is very close to the hotel. In the facilities there will be new and calibrated EIZO-screens and a limited number of Mac Minis. It is required that participants bring their own laptops. There will also be a 52” TV-screen for showing photos and the space is perfect for exhibitions.

What to bring:
All participants should bring their portfolio with physical prints or 18X24cm prints or digitally on a USB-stick, a digital camera, an empty USB-stick and if possible a portable computer with Photoshop installed.

Extra costs:
- Flight or other transport to Athens and back. You can find good prices at Malev.

Priceexample
Stockholm-Athens Jan30-Feb11 is approx 2045 Skr.
- Lunch and dinner is around10-15 euros / meal. There are plenty of restaurants in the vicinity of both the hotell and school facility.
- Transport to and from the airport: Taxi approx 40 euros. There are also metro and other public transport that stop close to the hotell; cost approx 10 euros/ticket.

Examples of other costs in Athens:
- a busticket costs 1.20 euro
- a 30-min taxiride costs 25 euro
Things to see and do in the vicinity:
- There are three contemporary art galleries around the corner from the hotel, the Breeder, Rebecca Camhi and AMP Projects. The Athens Municipal Gallery is on the same square as the school.

- Acropolis, the historical site is two stops away by metro at the Acropolis station
- Shopping is in the Kolonaki area, near the Constitution Square which is only one stop away on Syntagma metrostation.
- The main bar area is Gazi, one metrostop away on the Kerameikos station, or a 10 minute walk
- More here NewSchool.Athens under General Info


Questions:
Contact:
Håkan Elofsson at hakan.elofsson@bredband.net or +46 (0)70 842 08 60
Ion Tsakonas ion@newschoolathens.org or +30 6944 7147 16

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