Saturday, June 3: 13:00 - 18:00
This workshop will be held in English.
The mother tongue of the photographer is Dutch. When all participants indicate in the registration form that they speak Dutch, the language of the workshop will be changed to Dutch.
The tuition for this workshop is 65 euros.
If you would like an invoice, please send an email to festival@bspfestival.org.
Bring printed photos (size does not matter), so that you can work with them in the workshop. These need not be high-quality prints, they serve mainly as material to work with.
Furthermore a notebook to take down notes during the workshop may come in handy.
Muntpunt
Munt 6
1000 Brussel
Room: Zinneke 1
Participants are expected to make their own travel and accommodation arrangements.
For more information about the city, please visit www.visit.brussels.
Ensure that you have the necessary travel documents and visas to attend the event. The BSPF can provide letters of support if needed.
Payments are non-refundable. Please contact us at festival@bspfestival.org for special cases.
Participants must register to confirm their spot. First come, first served. Fill in the form and pay below to secure your spot in time.
The BSPF is not responsible for reimbursing travel expenses if a workshop is cancelled. We recommend that you purchase refundable airline tickets and/or travel insurance.
The BSPF reserves the right to cancel groups of less than 6 students. Participants will either receive a full refund or be offered a spot with another photographer. In the event of cancellation due to insufficient enrollment, participants will be notified at least 5 days in advance.
If you have any further questions, please send an e-mail to Lies De Jaegher via festival@bspfestival.org.
IMAGE SELECTION AND SEQUENCE
How do you make a good selection from your pile of images after a shoot? Is one image better than the other, and which images match best? It is a quest that invariably causes many photographers a lot of selection stress and uncertainty. In this workshop, photographer Valentina Stellino makes a virtue of necessity. She gives the selection process a fresh, creative approach by working with your images, creating different sequences and extracting new stories from them. Using examples, the workshop first zooms in on selection, then on building a sequence and creating a structure in your portfolio. Afterwards, participants will work in small groups with their own work.
Valentina Stellino
Valentina Stellino documents the lifestyle of specific branches from her family and from acquaintances. The artist’s approach exceeds mere documentary photography, as her work is augmented with psychological tension and a perplexing ambiance.
The majority of these images feature one or more family members or relatives, paradoxically photographed from a detached perspective. The models’ movements are arrested and they all assume stilted positions, resulting in frozen scenes that resemble tableaux vivants or, more relevantly, certain portraits that were produced during the Golden Age period in The Netherlands. Indeed, Stellino asked her sitters to re-enact their own domestic rituals and mundane activities in a familiar and unmediated environment. The results are more often than not poses that are neither self-assured nor completely unnatural – unease, on the other hand, is prevalent.
Clearly, the series is built upon a narrative, though one that is opaque and barely comprehensible at first sight. As is the case with 17th-century Dutch art, the viewer impulsively starts to look for clues in the depicted scenes and interiors, in the subjects’ small gestures, interactions and facial expressions. Other echoes from this period are Stellino’s elaborate use of the light available in a given situation, invariably creating a rather distraught atmosphere, as well as a keen eye for subdued, witching tonalities of colour.
Thus, Stellino’s work is situated between fiction and non-fiction; it inhabits a zone between real-life events and a reconstruction thereof.
valentinastellino.be
Valentina Stellino
Valentina Stellino documents the lifestyle of specific branches from her family and from acquaintances. The artist’s approach exceeds mere documentary photography, as her work is augmented with psychological tension and a perplexing ambiance.
The majority of these images feature one or more family members or relatives, paradoxically photographed from a detached perspective. The models’ movements are arrested and they all assume stilted positions, resulting in frozen scenes that resemble tableaux vivants or, more relevantly, certain portraits that were produced during the Golden Age period in The Netherlands. Indeed, Stellino asked her sitters to re-enact their own domestic rituals and mundane activities in a familiar and unmediated environment. The results are more often than not poses that are neither self-assured nor completely unnatural – unease, on the other hand, is prevalent.
Clearly, the series is built upon a narrative, though one that is opaque and barely comprehensible at first sight. As is the case with 17th-century Dutch art, the viewer impulsively starts to look for clues in the depicted scenes and interiors, in the subjects’ small gestures, interactions and facial expressions. Other echoes from this period are Stellino’s elaborate use of the light available in a given situation, invariably creating a rather distraught atmosphere, as well as a keen eye for subdued, witching tonalities of colour.
Thus, Stellino’s work is situated between fiction and non-fiction; it inhabits a zone between real-life events and a reconstruction thereof.
valentinastellino.be