What sort of photographer are you? HOT or COOL?
Extended Workshop with Paul Hill

Saturday 11 January 2014 and
Saturday 15 February 2014 and
Saturday 29 March 2014
10.00am-4.00pm

Cost: £120 LIP Member
16 places

Spread over three months, this three-day workshop will give you a unique opportunity to work through a photographic project using your own camera vision to create a body of work of exhibition standard that could be featured in a future edition of fLIP.

According to photographer and teacher Paul Hill, influential curators and cultural commentators, art theorists and contemporary practitioners have sought to elevate meaning over feeling and concept over form in photographic practice today. This could be characterized as 'cool' versus 'emotional', or cerebral as opposed to visceral.

What does HOT or COOL mean?
Throughout the history of photography practitioners have attributed internal significance to their work – the spirit, or essence - whilst others eschew such subjective evocations. The latter prefer to accurately represent the surface reality of any subject matter – the external - via a camera lens.

What sort of photographer are you?
Maybe you would like your work to be more conceptually rigorous, or conversely, more intuitive and passionate. Or maybe you have never considered that you were in 'hot' or 'cool' photographic camps anyway; and how does this relate to the traditional genres? (i.e documentary, landscape, portraiture et al).

The workshop will initially explore the 'hot' and the 'cool' approaches taken by contemporary photographers and ask participants to reveal which of these categories they think their work is in.

The Project
Paul will offer feedback on your perceived approach (or suggest that you may have placed yourself in the wrong category, perhaps?) in order to produce a body of work that truly reflects the sort of photographer you are, or would like to be. This project will continue over the course of the three workshop dates listed above.

About Paul Hill
Paul worked as a newspaper reporter and climbing instructor, before becoming a freelance photographer in 1965. He photographed regularly for The Guardian and The Observer and became director of the Creative Photography course at Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham in 1976 - forerunner to all current student-centred higher education courses in the medium. Another notable achievement around this time was the establishment, with his wife, Angela, of The Photographers Place– the UK's first residential photography workshop - at their Peak District home.

He has written two books on photography, Approaching Photography and Dialogue with Photography, and has had two monographs, White Peak Dark Peak and Corridor of Uncertainty published. Exhibiting regularly since 1970 in the British Isles and internationally, Paul was the first art photographer to receive an MBE for services to photography and the first Professor of photography in a British university. Paul Hill is an Honorary Lifetime Member of LIP.

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