SPECIALIST IN CONTEMPORARY ART PHOTOGRAPHY
UNTERRICHT
EDUCATION
It is about
about the complexity
in the statement
of images.
I accumulated an extensive knowledge in the following fields.
To find a stimulating and inspiring way through words and fascinating picture portfolios and to transfer the strong message through teaching them to you, took me many years.
Enjoy the results:
the lectures, the workshops, the educational trips, the single teaching.
MENTORING
PRIVATE LESSONS
12 face to face lessons with Kristin Dittrich pushing your individual capacities and goals in photography further. For your personal growth in photography I tailored a personal Mentoring Program: one the duration of 3 months:
(1) WHICH 10 PHOTOGRAPHERS HAVE INFLUENCED THE ART WORLD WORLDWIDE IN RECENT YEARS? Get to know them for your own work.
(2) WORKING ON YOUR OWN BIOGRAPHY - Connections between biography and subject identification.
(3) HOW TO DETERMINE HIGH ARTISTIC QUALITY IN PICTURES - Sharpening of previous projects. Exercises on this.
(4) FROM PHOTOGRAPHER TO AUTHOR - Artistic identity: What are my themes, experiences, ways of thinking and seeing, and how can they be told and translated through photography?
(5) WHAT IS A COMPLEX PHOTOGRAPH - The 8 layers who create complexity in an image, according to Kristin Dittrich.
(6) WRITING ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY - From Artist Statement to Image Criticism - Methods and Techniques.
(7) EXERCISES ON THE TOPIC - “Storytelling in Photography”´.
(8) FROM THOUGHT, TO CONTENT, TO FORM
Development of own themes & approaches for long term projects in one's own photographic work.
(9) TRANSFER OF THE FINDINGS INTO AN OWN STRUCTURE, INTO A FINISHED RESULT
Transfer of the findings into an own structure, into a finished result. (book, portfolio, website)
(10) HOW DO I CREATE A RESILIENT NETWORK IN THE INDUSTRY? - Research unit.
(11) STRUCTURES OF PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE ART MARKET.
(12) EVALUATION AND SUMMARY of instruction
LECTURES & WORKSHOPS
ON SPECIFIC TOPICS
The duration is between 6 and 15 teaching units. I have gained tremendous knowledge in the following areas and developed these specialist courses from them.
BIOGRAPHY - telling your own or someone else's life story visually
CURATING PHOTOGRAPHY - the art of exhibiting photography in spaces, the curatorial script, dramaturgical elements of storytelling in exhibitions
PHOTOGRAPHY AND PERFORMANCE - The body becomes an image in space
PHOTOGRAPHY AND DEMENTIA - What we achieve through photography memory training good for our brain
LIVING ARCHIVE - Methods and structures for their own archive for artists and designers
WRITING ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHY - the language of images, art criticism, artist statement, scientific text, opening speech, performance, international photo theory in core and key sentences
THE ARCHIVE OF THE ARTIST - organizationally management for artists and designers
PHOTOGRAPHY ENTERPRISE IN THE ARTS: How to start a gallery, a festival, self-employment. We start from your product, build a businessplan, content, image and brand, sales and structure for your offers in living with and from photography
LECTURES
The most important artists and their themes in contemporary photography worldwide, taught by country:
LECTURES
Art scene photography today in Finland, Sweden, Denmark
Art scene photography today Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Art scene photography today at USA , Canada
Art scene photography today in Japan, South Korea
Art scene photography today Czech Republic, Poland, Russia
Art scene photography today Hungary, Bulgaria, Turkey
Exciting themed lectures on current topics
in contemporary photography are held throughout the year, structured like a compact course.
Current developments in photography in the USA.
Growing from role models:
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Robert Frank
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The Wolfgang Tillmans Phenomenon
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Photography and dementia, activation of photographic memory exercises in this area
TRAVELING THE WORLDWID ART SCENES
From an insider they (the attendees) get to know the art scene of the following cities under the focus photography of the present. The focus is on the currently most important photography institutions, trends, artists and influencers in the photography art scene:
PARIS as an art city for photography discover (discovery), plus art market with art fair
NEW YORK on the traces of Susan Sontag as art city for photography discover (discovery)
Discover EAST GERMANY as a city of art for photography after the fall of communism
Discover PRAGUE as a city of art for photography, design and architecture after the fall of communism
Discover VIENNA as a city of art for photography, architecture and zeitgeist
