Special photography workshop with PETER BLACK & James Gilberd:
Getting inspiration: developing a body of work

Note: this is a one-off workshop, limited to 12 people
Provisionally, the cost of the workshop will be $460.00

The main promotion and organisation of the workshop will be handled by Photo Forum NZ

All bookings and enquiries to Jan Young of PhotoForum.
Email: photoforumnz@gmail.com or phone (09) 8118 959

The following is a draft of the runsheet for the workshop. This is just to give an idea of what we'll be covering, and details are subject to change without notice.

Saturday 3rd November 2012

• 10.00am Meet at venue, coffee
• 10.30am Peter will introduce the workshop & talk about his own work and thoughts on photography
• 11.45am Student presentation of work - each person to present prints of current or recent work for feedback from Peter, James and the rest of the group. Ideally, workprints and/or finished prints will be put out on a table
• 1.00pm Lunch break
• 1.45pm Continue presenting & discussing student work
• 3.00pm Exhibiting work in a gallery (led by James Gilberd)
  • overview of Photospace Gallery
  • approaching a gallery
  • working with a gallery & developing an exhibition project
  • artist statements
  • marketing & publicity
  • editioning prints, pricing work
  • questions and discussion
• 4.30-5.30pm Peter & James will be available to discuss any individual photography related questions, and provide individual feedback

Sunday 4th November 2012

• 10.00am Coffee, 1:1 feedback (as per last session Saturday)
• 10.45am The Print: printing for exhibition, quality, presentation, signing works, hanging an exhibition
• 12.30pm Lunch
• 1.15pm The Photographic Book: Peter to discuss production of photographic books, processes of design, editing, sequencing etc
• 2.30pm Book presentations: this is where we'd like each person to show and/or talk about a photographic book that is most important to them or influential on their own practice. 5-10 minutes each
• 4pm-5pm Wine & cheese.

Peter Black talking on Radio NZ about his new book I loved you the moment I saw you, September 2011

This workshop will appeal to photographers who photograph the real world including people, buildings and landscape (rather than studio work). The main aim is to gain inspiration.

Please apply to: James Gilberd at Photopspace Gallery - Email: j.gilberd at xtra.co.nz
or phone (04) 382 9502 (after 10am!)

Peter Black began exhibiting his photographs in the late 1970s, and his first book, Fifty Photographs was published in 1982. The work was shown at the National Art Gallery in Wellington the same year, and was the first solo show by an NZ photographer at that institution. In 2003, the Wellington City Gallery hosted a major survey show of his work, and the catalogue Real Fiction (VUP, 2003) also featured writers & poets responding to the images. Peter Black has also been included in the major NZ art publications Contemporary New Zealand Photographers (Mountain View Publishing, 2005), and Into the Light (Craig Potton, 2006).

Peter Black has had over 30 years photographing in black & white and three years photographing in colour and printing his own images. His new book I loved you the moment I saw you (VUP, 2011) is a series of 82 colour photos shot (mostly) in Wellington in 2009.

Peter Black info

James Gilberd opened Photospace Gallery in 1998, and has been a professional photographer since the early 1990s. He has a degree in photography from Victoria University, 1997, and has been actively photographing, teaching photography, curating exhibitions and running the gallery over several decades. In 2008, he edited and co-published the book Fiat Lux - 51 photographs by Andrew Ross (with VUP).

(Note: this workshop will be held in Auckland, not in Wellington.)

All bookings and enquiries to Jan Young of PhotoForum.
Email: photoforumnz@gmail.com or phone (09) 8118 959