Mini-Workshop
The Artist’s Sketchbook: Ideas and Tools for the Practicing Photographer
Artists and photographers often use a sketchbook to hold on to fleeting thoughts and preliminary results — whether to jot down ideas, organize work, or just print some pictures to document their development over time. In this mini-workshop, we’ll look at examples of how photographers and artists like Francesca Woodman, Gerhard Richter, Frank Ockenfels, and Chris Ashworth have used the sketchbook — and how you can expand your artistic practice using this powerful tool. While we’ll focus mostly on analog tools and practices, we’ll also look briefly at how you can use digital sketchbooks like Milanote and Miro to organize your research and collaborate with others.
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.
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