The One Day Photographic Workshop
Trzydniowy Warsztat Fotograficzny
The Day
- 9 am Introduction & assessment of technical requirements, abilities and expectations.
- 10:30 Students are split into three groups,
- Portraits
- Movement
- Reportage
- 11:00 until 13:00 ACTION - Practical activity with my help on individual basis.
- 13:00 until 15:00 Preparing and choosing prints.
- 15:30 until 16:00 Arrange an exhibition.
- 16:00 until 17:00 Evaluation of what was done.
Stories
Today, watching a sunset turning into a hazy evening over my garden in Cambridge and while thinking about “The One Day Photographic Workshop”, I flicked through the diary from my time in London.
Week 20 (May):
Monday – 10:00 sharp, taxi to North London to photograph Sir Ernst Gombrich for the Getty Museum. Lunch in Soho and helping with photographs of Linford Christie.
Tuesday – Chiswick, photographing rehearsal at the Ballet Rambert studio.
In the afternoon - Kentish Town: portraits of Marina Warner and later on of Michael Palin and staying on to meet his family.
Quick call and rush to take photographs of Paloma Picasso, an hour after opening the exhibition of her late father at the Royal Academy in London.
Wednesday – Day in the City of London photographing traders at the Futures Exchange for a Polish magazine.
Thursday – Photographic documentation of the Opera Factory with the London Sinfonietta performing for Channel 4.
Later on I had lunch with their Artistic Director, Michael Vyner and took portraits of him.
Friday – Day in Richmond, London, taking photographs of a group of musicians. We talked quite a bit about their ntriguing ideas and modern use of images.
Saturday – Last adjustments to the exhibition of my photographs at the October Gallery
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Sunday – photographing the Brazilian Carnival at the South Bank. Home on Monday at 4 in the morning.
My Photography
Photography is all about spending time with intriguing people, working with imaginative designers and chatting to journalists, who traveled to fascinating places only to return hungry for the next story.
Photography is the most dynamic form of visual communication I have came across and yet so precise and still.
Photography is a passport to take part in a creative process of artists, who stage theatrical events, paint, dance, sing, play music, build our cities, film cinematic adventures……
Photography is a unique way to participate in emotions of others, in their joy & heartache. Intensity of photographic images touch people in distant places and open the beauty of the World we are living in for all to appreciate.
When I wanted to engage with others, I photographed them
Sometimes they even let me loose on their organization, leaving editorial decisions to my judgment (the BBC World Service), while Glenda Jackson allowed me to carry on shooting three films during half an hour break between performances.
