Looking at Photography: Photography as Witnessing

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.

2: Photography as witnessing – What we look at and what we do about it

In this lecture we will look at the idea of photography as a witness. From the earliest conflict photography to contemporary representations of war, this idea of the heroic photographer has always been present. And so have ideas on how photography can be staged, manipulated, and distorted to serve vested domestic and business interests. The lecture will also look at contemporary projects that challenge that idea of the photographer as a witness, that extend the idea of what war photography is and can be.

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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