Filmverkstaden

Luminogram

Start:11.04.2020 11:00 h
End:12.04.2020 17:00 h

CANCELLED

We are happy that artist-in-residence Elvira Akzigitova will teach a workshop in how to make luminograms!

Think of light-sensitive materials as surfaces with near magical properties.
With such darkroom technique as luminogram, a possibility of trapping light movement and making
direct impressions on photo paper can reveal itself. The cameraless approach is intended to liberate
everyday forms from their usual associations and to create a painting with light. By using various light
sources the participants are welcomed to practice alternative darkroom techniques that create a challenge
to the doctrine of straight visual representation. This method provides richer insights into the
photographic procedure than shots taken mechanically with a camera. The conditions in which all those
events take place are the primary conditions of photography – conditions of light and time.
Once a fuller understanding of the medium’s potential would be achieved, through exercises and
experimentation – the artist can work out a unique signature to use for direct impressions. With
luminogram technique, the workshop participants can explore and practice the process of crafting a
photographic impression from beginning to end. Such abstract photography can show us clearly how one
can change imitative photographic procedure into purposeful creative work. In this way photographic
methods can be used to produce visual sensation and intellectual associations that cannot be achieved by
other means.
The workshop practice is location-based, intuitive and built on pure observation. It excludes modern
techniques of documentation and instead, works with comparisons. The participants will be making
comparisons between one combination and another, and artistically out of those comparisons there will
emerge a general principle.

The workshop will be held in english.

Participation fee 50€ incl. all materials and coffee :)

No previous experience needed.

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