Photography

Course Leader: Ahmet Polat

In the workshop participants will be investigating the surrounding and collecting their interests in the form of photographs everyday. These photographs, once printed will be gathered to form a stock, from which different narratives could be composed. New photographs will be added to the stock daily and the narratives will start to increase in variety and scope. Through a process of diversification, selection and narrative composition the resulting collage will take shape. The workshop will act as a ground for improvement on the technique of taking pictures as well as being a collaborative experience in producing a final exhibition that is bigger than its parts. The final work will become the base of a booklet, which will also document all stages of the whole process. And the process evolving towards the final work will be shared on a daily basis with the inhabitants of the village through outdoor exhibitions of the work in progress.

Participants are expected to bring their own means for producing digital images.

Born in Rosendaal, as the child of a Dutch-Turkish family, Ahmet Polat won the Dutch Foundation for Visual Art’s Top Dutch Photography prize in 2004 and is the first Turkish recipient of ICP’s (International Centre of Photography) "Young Photographer" title at the 22nd Infinity Awards (2006). In addition to his recent one-person shows in Istanbul Modern (2007) and Galery X-ist (2006), he took place in group exhibitions in Art-Rotterdam with Gallery R.A.M, Stroom Den Hague and Wester-Gasfabriek (Amsterdam), to name a few.