Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
Braubachstraße 30-32, 60311 Frankfurt am Main
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Master Class
THEKLA EHLING“VON UNBEKANNTEN TERRITORIEN”
“VON UNBEKANNTEN TERRITORIEN”
Saturday, Mar 09, May 11, Aug 24, and
Nov 23, 2019, 10am–6pm
FULLY BOOKED
Themes
Long-term project on “unknown territories”, conceptual development, portfolio and image review, discussion on different photographic strategies, portrait, landscape, critical photography, new perspectives, looking at the world close to us
Workshop schedule
09 March: Meeting at 10 am. First, photographer Thekla Ehling will give an introduction to the topic and present the goals and procedures of the long-term project. The workshop will begin with an intensive portfolio review before focusing on project ideas on the topic “Von Unbekannten Territorien” (unknown territories). Participants should bring theme ideas with them.
11 May, 24 August and 23 November:
The personal project will be developed and implemented throughout the year and regularly presented during the group sessions. Under the instruction of Ehling and with her professional counselling the interim results and approaches of the participants will be discussed and further developed.
Equipment
Each participant is asked to bring their portfolios with their works (20–30 images) in printed formand an idea for their project to the first session.
Location
Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
Braubachstraße 30–32, 60311 Frankfurt
The workshop has been designed as a master class and can only be booked in full.
Thekla Ehling, Photo: © Vanessa van Houten
Language: German
Number of participants: Min. 8 / max. 12 persons
Duration: Workshop in four sessions
In a globalised world, everyday life appears increasingly complex and complicated. Issues such as climate change effect our own habitats our daily life becomes more fragile. Perspectives, as being right or left, conservative or progressive appear not to be working for our thinking and perception in a world which is more and more digitally connected. However it can also be a chance, to engage more consciously with the uncertainty of future by observing entities and humans in everyday life with more awareness.
The workshop aims to reveal the world’s fragility in an individual picture language of perspectives. Questions such as how do we as humans react to instability and to discrepancy will provoke participants to reveal their photographic position.
The workshop has been designed as a master class and can only be booked in full.
Vergiszmeinnicht, 2011, © Thekla Ehling
Thekla Ehling (*1968, Bielefeld) studied photography at the University of Applied Science and Arts in Dortmund and in Ireland at the College of Fine Art, Limerick. She is specializes in portraiture and works for different magazines in Germany and overseas. Since 2007 she is a member of the Fotoagentur Focus and is represented by Galerie Robert Morat in Hamburg/Berlin. Her works have been exhibited in Arles, Hamburg, Berlin, Paris, Rom, Melbourne and New York. Furthermore her photo books Sommerherz (Kehrer Verlag 2008) and Vergiszmeinnicht (Kehrer Verlag 2011) were nominated for the Deutschen Fotobuchpreis in 2009 and 2012. In 2014 she was involved in the foundation of the PhotoBook Museum in Cologne. Since 2017 she teaches photography at the Hochschule Hannover. Thekla Ehling is amember ofthe DFA Deutsche Fotografische Akademie and lives in Cologne.
FOTOGRAFIE FORUM FRANKFURT
The Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (FFF) is one of the leading centres of photography in Europe. As an exhibition space, institution and event forum the FFF deals with all aspects of photography. Since its founding in 1984 it has presented more than 260 exhibitions with historic and contemporary artists. Additionally, the programme of the FFF comprises of regular workshops, talks and discussions with internationally renowned photographers, artists and experts.
