ONLINE COURSE
Poetics of Space: A Deeper Look at Your Home
Spending a lot of time at home and staying productive and creative is hard: you’ve looked at everything a thousand times and the view from your window has become part of your visual DNA. How can objects and your surroundings that are so familiar become interesting photographic subjects to you again — let alone others? In our ongoing exploration of Gaston Bachelard's book Poetics of Space, we now focus on developing our investigations of the home and its surroundings into a continuous, sustainable practice. This is a project-based class, and whether you have a project underway or are starting something new, we'll help you uncover the many aspects and possibilities of photographing your home through group discussion, individualized guidance and prompts, and photographic resources.
Stefan Frank is a photographer and writer, working from Heidelberg, Germany. Way before he came to photography, he studied mathematics and philosophy at Ruhr Universität Bochum and worked as an IT specialist. He studied at Atelier Smedsby with JH Engström and Margot Wallard in Paris in 2017, before he eventually began studying photography at Ostkreuzschule, Berlin, with Peter Bialobrzeski. He graduated in 2023 with the work Irgendwo (“Anywhere”), a project dealing with politically motivated crime and the terror-spree of the far right in Germany. He has been teaching with StrudelmediaLive since 2020, giving courses on surrealism, poetics of space, gestalt theory for photographers, and more. His work has been exhibited in Heidelberg, Frankfurt, and Berlin.
Stefan teaches the poetics of space, nighttime photography, and much more — including presenting The Photobook Show — for StrudelmediaLive.