ONLINE COURSE
Architecture and Narrative: A Sense of Place
How can we use the genre of architectural photography to tell a more personal story of place? This course invites you to engage with architecture to develop your photography skills, style, and practice overall. You will focus your camera on an architectural site that is significant to you and create a short series, or narrative, that moves beyond architectural photography as a faithful representation of the built environment, to include your personal encounter, response and experience of place. Through weekly exercises, discussion, and critique, your work will develop while we draw inspiration from established architectural photographers, past and present.
This class is suitable for both beginners and experienced photographers who want to engage in a creative way with the built environment, space, place, and narrative. We’ll also cover composition, camera angles, and perspective as well as the role and relationship between aperture and shutter speed for exposure and focus.
Marianne Holm Hansen is a Danish artist based in London. She studied at the Fynske Academy of Fine Arts (Denmark), International Center of Photography (New York), and completed an MA in Interactive Media: Critical Theory and Practice, at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has worked internationally as an editorial photographer, photography lecturer and educator, and today collaborates continuously with institutions such as Tate Modern and the Royal Institute of British Architects (London) to deliver workshops and projects that invite participants to engage critically and creatively across media and themes.
Marianne’s work is shown internationally through exhibitions, publications, and live events. She has received awards from the Pollock-Krasner Foundation (New York) and Arts Council England, amongst others, and held research and production residencies in the UK, USA, France, Finland, and Serbia. Her most recent book, Void As (A) – A Proposition, collates photographs with texts to propose a series of prompts for thinking differently about language, time and space.
Marianne teaches combining image and text, and how to use architectural space to tell a story for StrudelmediaLive.
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