Looking at Photography: Activism
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Are you looking to develop your own practice? Do you want to understand what photography is or can be? This 8-week course will introduce you to the contemporary practice of photography through examples that link the historical, the contemporary, and the theoretical in a way that is dynamic, visual, and accessible to everybody.
Touching on major photographic genres such as landscape photography, portraiture, and conflict, it will look at some of the key photographers and ideas that have shaped how we see the world today and will also present a global, pluralist outlook on both the wonderful expressive and artistic qualities of the photographic image, as well as its darker side.
5: Photography, documentary and Activism – Looking to change
The end of the 19th century and beginning of the 20th century brought an explosion in a socially directed humanist activist photography that sought to effect social and political change in Europe, in the USA, and in Africa. Through examples from Australia, Asia, and South America this lecture will examine how effective this change was, the ideas on which this activism was founded, and how these ideas of activist photography have evolved and changed in the years since.
We do require a minimum number of registrants to run this course. In the event that we do not reach this two weeks before it starts we will provide a full refund.
Book for the whole series or for individual lectures. To see details of the full 8-part course visit: https://rps.org/LatP
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Event Organiser
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- Michael Pritchard
- michael@rps.org
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This is an online event. The RPS will do its best to ensure that the event keeps to the published dates and timings and runs as planned. In the event of technical difficulties, the unforeseen unavailability of speaker(s), or in the unlikely event that the series or part thereof has to be cancelled all participants will be advised at the earliest opportunity. Dates will be re-arranged or a pro-rata refund made. No responsibility is accepted for any consequential losses.
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