Paul Hill: Staying Focused, Working on a Theme (2-day Workshop)

Saturday 9th October AND Saturday 15th January 2011
10am-4.30pm
St James Church
197 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL - Entrance at side stairwell by Costa Coffee (Map)
Nearest tube: Piccadilly Circus

Cost: £60 LIP Member
15 places

This two-day workshop run by PAUL HILL will discuss the various aspects of working thematically and how to create a body of consistent and linked work without becoming formulaic and predictable.

Paul Hill is well known to all of us at LIP. A major influence on contemporary British photography, he was made a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 1990 and, four years later, was awarded an MBE by The Queen for services to photography. Since 1995 he has been a professor at De Montfort University, Leicester, where he is joint leader of the MA in Photography course. Birmingham City Archives, which houses one of the country’s major collections of photographs, acquired the Paul Hill/ Photographers’ Place Archive in 2004.

Paul has produced a number of diverse themed projects since the 1970s, most notably Prenotations, White Peak Dark Peak, Concerning Animals, and currently Corridor of Uncertainty (to be published this autumn). He has also written about the subject in his book Approaching Photography.

LIP members have often been encouraged to produce coherent bodies of work - for themed submissions to fLIP magazine, for submitting a series of images to the annual group exhibition, and for the London Villages Project about to be launched.

Participants should attend the first day, Oct 9th, with some preliminary theme ideas and images they are working on. These will be discussed and suggestions offered which may help you keep focused on the theme over the following weeks. The follow-up workshop January 15th is the working deadline where participants' work be critiqued and future options discussed that could make the project even more successful.

During both workshops Paul will show his own methods for working thematically, whether the links are to do with the medium, specific subject matter, or more metaphysical concerns, and how he has presented his work in exhibitions and publications.

SORRY, THIS WORKSHOP IS FULL