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 the built environment to develop your photography skills, style, and practice overall. We will consider architecture as both metaphor and subject as you focus your camera on sites that are significant to you. You’ll develop a short series, or narrative, that moves beyond creating a faithful photographic representation of the built environment and that includes your personal story, response to, and experience of the place. This course is suitable for anyone who wants to engage creatively with an architectural environment, space, place, and narrative. We’ll draw inspiration from artists and photographers, past and present, to consider camera techniques, composition, and sequencing, as your work develops through weekly exercises, discussions, and critique.
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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