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Land Matters: Photography, Landscape, Environment.


  • Online Zoom Classroom (map)

The Houston Center for Photography is excited to present an online photography masterclass with Liz Wells.
Registration is closed.

'You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus'
Mark Twain, 1889

Through critical examination of photographic practices relating to land, landscape, place and environment, historically and now, we shall critically reflect on ways in which photographers have deployed photography and associated media to question, investigate and respond to places and scenarios, ideas and issues. Students will consider the qualities, strengths and limitations of varying practices for documenting, communicating and intervening in cultural discourses relating to land and landscape now.

Our focus will be on environmental images, issues and interventions. Themes will include: Landscape as a genre in painting and photography; Geography, biography and aesthetics in landscape photography; Systematic documentation vs immersive explorations in botany and ecologies; Sense of place: land, landscape, nation and identity; Environmental photography now: issues, activism and modes of intervention.

Sessions will open with a presentation from Liz Wells. This will be followed by discussions of set (short) articles that will be circulated in advance. Students will also be asked to prepare brief critical presentations on work by other photographers or photo-collectives (their projects, websites, exhibitions, and publications).

Dates: September 18 - Octotber 16, 2024
Meetings: Wednesday, 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM CST (5 Sessions)
Location: Online Zoom Classroom
Cost: $540 (HCP members receive a 10% discount)
Instructor: Liz Wells
Skill Level: Intermediate - Advanced
Participants: 10

Objectives:

  • Familiarize yourself with critical debates relating to photography and environment.
    Habitually situate questions of land and environment within broader socio-political contexts and cultural currencies.

  • Extend your knowledge of photographers, their research methods and practices nationally, and internationally. 

  • Critically reflect on intentions, photographic methods, aesthetic strategies, contexts of working, and modes of visual communication.

  • Consider ways in which course themes and discussions inform, offer insights into, or otherwise influence your own creative practice.

Prerequisites

As photographers, writers, administrators, critics, and curators, you should be interested in and/or engaged with photographic practices relating to land, landscape, place and environment.

Tagged: Masterclass, Courses, Fine Art, Personal Work

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