Aug 3 - Aug 23 2016
We are excited to announce the details of the Magnum Intensive Documentary Photography Course: in association with London College of Communication, which will run over the month of August in London, led by Magnum photographer Stuart Franklin. Magnum photographers Chris Steele Perkins and Bieke Depoorter will also teach on the course.
Magnum Photos is an agency synonymous with integrity, curiosity and ‘concerned’ photography. For over sixty years, Magnum’s international photographers have chronicled the world; helping to shape documentary photography as a modern form of both artistic expression and a tool for change.
As a modern agency, the current preoccupation is focused on the role of authorship in an image-saturated world. In conjunction with Magnum’s historic archive, a new means of culturally relevant production is being explored, leading to a greater dialogue with the wider market, expanded platforms and emerging geographies. With over six decades of experience and with access to world-leading photographers and professionals, Magnum Photos is committed in the transfer of its accumulated knowledge to a new generation of visual storytellers.
During this three-week course, students will become absorbed in the practice and history of documentary photography and Magnum's legacy and contemporary contribution to it. The course will support development and production of photographic projects from start to finish.
The course will be led by acclaimed, award-winning Magnum photographer Stuart Franklin with visiting workshops ran by Chris Steele Perkins and Bieke Depoorter, alongside experienced tutors from London College of Communication, and will consider all elements of successful project development; from research phases, to access and shooting, to the editing and creation of a public projection.
Focusing on responses to place, students will be offered the choice of two approaches to exploring space and environment through documentary photography.
Magnum & LCC will equip students with the historical and contextual framework required to raise critical thinking about documentary photography, as well as providing technical guidance and tutorial support. Class time will be supported by evening lectures from LCC staff and a selection of Magnum photographers.
The experience of joining the Magnum Documentary Photography Course will be a unique and positive learning experience, with a social dimension that will allow students to interact with others; sharing ideas and expertise.
Course contents
The course will consist of these main elements:
• Shooting on location – daily assignments and briefs in London
• Magnum Print Room – you will spend a weekend learning the mechanics of the photography business, networking and career development
• Lectures - led by Magnum photographers and LCC staff
• Museum visits - learn about national photography collections, including the V&A Museum, through tours with curators
• Critique – individually and in groups, looking at technique, subject and personal voice
• Editing and production – learning how editing, sequencing and design can reveal narrative, including a unique two day practical workshop exploring book making
• Graduation party –celebrate and display work digitally to a public and industry audience
Course outcomes
The learning outcomes connected to the course are:
• Create an industry standard and academically informed body of photographic work
• Have unique insight into the history of documentary photography
• Engage in critical debates on ethics, industry and technology in contemporary photographic practice
• Continue developing essential skills in writing, editing and making work for different audiences
MORE INFORMATION & BOOKING DETAILS
Course location: London College of Communication, Elephant & Castle, SE1 6SB
Course dates: 03/08/2015 - 23/08/2015
Monday - Friday, 10:00 - 17:00, with a programme of evening lectures
Course fee: £3000
<a href='http://www.arts.ac.uk/lcc/courses/short-courses/browse-short-courses/photography/magnum-documentary-photography-course/' target='_blank'>Enroll here</a>
For any queries, please contact emily.graham@magnumphotos.com, or call +44 (0)207 490 9713
<b>About the tutors</b>
Stuart Franklin
Stuart Franklin was born in Britain in 1956. He studied photography and film at West Surrey College of Art and Design and geography at the University of Oxford (BA and PhD). During the 1980s, he worked as a correspondent for Sygma Agence Presse in Paris before joining Magnum Photos in 1985.
Franklin's coverage of the Sahel famine from 1984 to 1985 won him acclaim, but he is perhaps best known for his celebrated photograph of a man defying a tank in Tiananmen Square, China, in 1989, which won him a World Press Photo Award. Since 1990, Franklin has completed over twenty assignments for National Geographic. His documentary photography has taken him to Central and South America, China, Southeast Asia and Europe. Since 2004 he has focused on long-term projects concerned primarily with man and the environment.
In 1999 he produced The Time of Trees, a photographic essay examining the social relationship between nature and society through the prism of trees. This was followed four years later by The Dynamic City, about the evolution and everyday life of cities. In 2005 he completed Hôtel Afrique, an exhibition on Africa's elite hotels (the book of the same title is in progress); the same year, aided by a grant funded by the National Trust, he published Sea Fever, a documentary project about the British coastline. Franklin is currently working on a long-term project on Europe's changing landscape, focusing in particular on the climate and on patterns of transformation.
About London College of Communication
LCC is a pioneering world leader in media and design education, and research programmes geared to preparing students for successful creative careers. Our courses are known for being industry focused with students taught by an inspiring community of experienced academics, technical experts and leading specialist practitioners. Generations of award-winning photographers, filmmakers, screenwriters, journalists, broadcasters, designers and advertising and PR professionals have started their careers at LCC, and today’s graduates continue to be highly sought after and win prestigious international awards. <a href='http://www.arts.ac.uk/lcc' target='_blank'>www.arts.ac.uk/lcc</a>
<a href='http://www.arts.ac.uk/lcc/courses/short-courses/browse-short-courses/photography/magnum-documentary-photography-course/' target='_blank'>Enroll here</a>