Workshops
At the Aarhus School of Architecture
Harvey Benge Workshop
We are happy to host a workshop by renowned photographer Harvey Benge (New Zealand), on envisioning, editing, and producing photobooks.
Dates:
Day 1: Saturday, 6 October, 10:00 – 15:00
Day 2: Sunday, 7 October, 9:00 – 14:00
Fee: 350 DKK per day. 600 DKK for two days
20% Discount with a valid student ID.
15% Early bird discount (until 15 September)
The workshop
“The objective of my workshops is to unpack strategies for the development of a complete and balanced lens-based art practice. In effect an investigation into the process that I employ and has lead me to the production of sixty or more photo books over the last thirty years. Benge will show participants how he has conceptualised, structured and produced several of his key bookworks. Further, participants will be asked to participate in a “live” editing and sequencing session of a new bookwork of his scheduled for publication in 2020. Participants will need to bring to the workshop work-prints of current photographs which can then be reviewed and evaluated within the group. This will involve discussion as to the rigour and relevance of the works’ conceptual underpinning followed by a hard look at possible edits and sequencing leading to photobook production”.
Harvey Benge’s workshops are interactive, inspiring and good fun. Harvey will cover a spectrum of issues that affect all photographers – finding one’s own voice, idea generation, self evaluation of work, what makes a good picture, development of picture series. Emphasis will be on the photobook where strategies for editing and sequencing will be discussed with practical examples. Participants’ own work will be reviewed both in terms of how the pictures work and the ways the photographs can be carried forward to a finished photobook.
Spaces: 15 places – first come, first served.
Registration fee: 350 DKK per day. 600 DKK for two days (20% Discount with a valid student ID, 15% Early bird discount until 15 September)
To book your place, email us at pwacoordination@gmail.com
About Harvey Benge
New Zealander Harvey Benge works from Auckland and Paris. He has been a full-time camera artist since 1993, when his first photobook Four Parts Religion, Six Parts Sin was published. Benge is well known for his many photo books which have been published in Britain, Germany, France, Italy and Japan. His principal publisher is UK’s Dewi Lewis, who has worked with Benge for 20 years. Harvey Benge’s bookworks are conceptual in nature and deal with the complexities of life and the nature of seeing and understanding. His photographs are mostly urban and generally strange. His work is mysterious; nothing is solid. The pictures capture contrasts and conflicts which leave you wondering what has just happened and what might happen next. Benge’s bookworks have been exhibited a Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Antwerp Foto Museum, Belgium; Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam; Photographers Gallery, London; and Palais de Tokyo, Paris. His books have twice been finalists in the Prix du Livre at the Rencontres d’Arles, France. Harvey Benge is also known for the workshops he has conducted, working with photographers such as Lewis Baltz, Antoine d’Agata, Paul Graham, Rineke Dijkstra, John Gossage, Alec Soth, Roger Ballen.
Day 2 of Harvey Benge Workshop
Sunday, 7 October, 9:00 – 14:00
Fee: 350 DKK per day. 600 DKK for two days
20% Discount with a valid student ID.
15% Early bird discount (until 15 September)
“The objective of my workshops is to unpack strategies for the development of a complete and balanced lens-based art practice. In effect an investigation into the process that I employ and has lead me to the production of sixty or more photo books over the last thirty years. Benge will show participants how he has conceptualised, structured and produced several of his key bookworks. Further, participants will be asked to participate in a “live” editing and sequencing session of a new bookwork of his scheduled for publication in 2020. Participants will need to bring to the workshop work-prints of current photographs which can then be reviewed and evaluated within the group. This will involve discussion as to the rigour and relevance of the works’ conceptual underpinning followed by a hard look at possible edits and sequencing leading to photobook production”.
Date: Sunday 7 Oct, from 9 to 14h
Location: Aarhus School of Architecture, Norreport 2, Aarhus.
Spaces: 15 places – first come, first served.
Registration fee: 350 DKK per day. 600 DKK for two days
20% Discount with a valid student ID.
15% Early bird discount (until 15 September)
To book your place, email us at pwacoordination@gmail.com
