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Jason Fulford - Visual Language: How Pictures Speak to Each Other

“Everywhere there is a grammatical mysticism. Grammar. It is not only the human being that speaks—the universe also speaks—everything speaks—unending languages.” —Novalis

The single photograph, despite its specificity, remains ambiguous. The image is always relative to something else—another image, the mode of presentation, text or the viewers own mood and memory. For this reason, context is an important tool for the photographer. Context can be used either to play on the photograph’s inherent ambiguity, or to clarify the photographer’s message. In this hands-on workshop, we will discuss and experiment with visual language, editing and sequencing.

In addition to ambiguity, I will throw in some of my favorite themes, including chance, truth, contradictions, humor and absurdity.

The workshop will consist of rigorous physical and mental exercises, games and lectures. The group will work fast and loose. What will the results be? It’s up to you to decide. If all goes according to plan, everyone will leave the workshop with a new set of tools for thinking about and working with images.

Participants are asked to bring at least 25 pictures from a personal body of work, and 25 found pictures (not taken by the participant). Participants should also have an open mind, and should not expect a traditional teaching environment.

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Jason Fulford is a photographer and co-founder of J&L Books. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a frequent lecturer at universities, and has led workshops across the United States, in Japan, Italy, Poland, The Netherlands, Germany and Spain. His monographs include Sunbird (2000), Crushed (2003), Raising Frogs for $$$ (2006), The Mushroom Collector (2010), Hotel Oracle (2013), and Contains: 3 Books (2016). He is co-author with Tamara Shopsin of the photobook for children, This Equals That (2014), and co-editor with Gregory Halpern of The Photographer’s Playbook (2014).
Fulford’s photographs have been described as open metaphors. As an editor and an author, a focus of his work has been on the subject of how meaning is generated through association. 

www.jasonfulford.com

With : Jason Fulford

Dates: From May 6th to May 9th, 2019

Fees: 120€ / 60€ (reduced price)

Number of participants: 12 max.

Language: English

Public: Professional photographers, students in photography.

 

Terms of enrollment:

Please send in an application file with:

• A biography

• A general description of your work

• A short portfolio of max. 15 pictures

Dead line for the application: 15th of March 2019.
Please send your application to the following email address: formation@cna.etat.lu

Infos and registration:
formation@cna.etat.lu
T. +352 52 24 24 702