Workshop with Mick Williamson

Saturday 9th April, 2011
10.30am-4.30pm
St James Church
197 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL - Entrance at side stairwell by Costa Coffee (Map)
Nearest tube: Piccadilly Circus

Cost: £35 LIP Member
15 places

Mick will talk about his work and show examples of his process for developing themes and projects. He will then look at participants work to explore ways of furthering and presenting their personal projects in discussion with the whole group. Participants should bring a selection of images from a project they are working on, and for help with sequencing please bring prints.

Using an Olympus half-frame camera, Mick Williamson focuses on recording intimate and unassuming moments of daily life. He takes at least one film a day wherever he is, that is 72 shots, mostly black and white. Using photography as a means to create personal diaries and to remember, he thinks of photographers as collectors, capturing the transience of light and everyday life.

Mick Williamson has taught photography for over 35 years and is Senior Lecturer in charge of Photography at London Metropolitan University, Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design. His photographs have been exhibited nationally and internationally and his book Some Memorials: The Photo-Diaries of Mick Williamson was published in 1999. mickwilliamson.com