Photobook Dummy Workshop

This workshop has the main objective of finding an answer to a significant question: “What is your problem with life, what are your obsession(s), reverie(s)?” The answer may / should vary from person to person! What you hate / love the most, a social or a political fact that bugs you, a childhood memory, a moment you cannot forget willingly of unwillingly… This can be anything you say “worth to speak!” in life; a personal inner issue will certainly increase the factor of passion.

Following long talks and confessions / revelations in form of therapy sessions, your personal “cause”, that is expected to be a content which will augment participants’ self-awareness and be expressed through photography, will be determined. Subsequent to this phase, we/ you will start to stroll outdoors in order to find the necessary ground for your narrative. This flâneurship can be performed either individually or collectively, this is up to the participants.

Once the photos are made, we will turn them into a handmade photobook dummy. The purpose here is to:

• create a photo series sequenced to carry a narrative potential;
• create an awareness about the power of the photographic image in expressing / conveying;
• get used to the practice of making photos as subjective photo series that contribute to our collective cultural history, and not as isolated “nice” images;
• remember to use the corpus produced in the early days of photography and its indispensably connected theoretical discourse, as a source of reference / inspiration in creating a relatively original content, without being captivated by the fashionable visual languages of the present era;
• and finally; leave a selfsatisfying fabrication to your personal history…

No prerequisites are necessary for the workshop; any individual who desires to question / relieve the self, using photography as a tool, is welcome. The presence many participants from different age groups and professional disciplines will obviously enrich the discussion platform. The aim is to form a participatory debate environment based on constructive criticism, a platform where our individual contributions shape our commons; and not a one-sided transmission in form of a monologue.

Necessities:

• A camera if possible; if not a smart phone with a camera at least.
• If participants have a personal laptop, please bring on.