JASON FULFORD: "PHOTOGRAPHY & THE SUBCONSCIOUS", TOKYO, JAPAN, APRIL 11-14, 2024

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[4-DAY WORKSHOP]
JASON FULFORD: “PHOTOGRAPHY & THE SUBCONSCIOUS”
TOKYO, JAPAN, APRIL 11-14, 2024


 

DESCRIPTION

If you show a photograph to five people, they will often respond differently. Each picture has hidden meanings, waiting to be teased out. The image is fixed, but the meaning is fluid.

As an editor (of your own work, or of others’), you have some control over how the picture is interpreted. You can play with the photograph’s inherent ambiguity to either heighten the mystery or clarify a point of view. You can also use chance mechanisms and other techniques to discover meanings that you couldn’t see before.

Over three days of rigorous games and exercises, using your pictures, we will experiment with these topics. A few of our heroes will be Sarah Charlesworth, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, and Raymond Queneau.

On day four, we will explore Tokyo together, and I will show you some of my favorite places in the city.

We will think in both abstract & literal ways; with emotion & logic; with poetry & judgment. And we will let chance be our guide. You should come with an open mind, a sense of humor and a strong work ethic. The desired outcome is a way of thinking and living that generates rich and layered meanings.

–Jason Fulford


Limited to 10 photographers
(film and digital both OK)


All images © Jason Fulford

ABOUT JASON FULFORD: 


 

© Tamara Shopsin

Jason Fulford is an artist and co-founder of J&L Books. He is a Guggenheim Fellow, a frequent lecturer at universities, and has led workshops across the globe. Fulford’s photographs have been described as open metaphors. As an editor and an author, a focus of his work has been on the subject of how meaning is generated through association. His monographs include Sunbird (2000), Crushed (2003), Raising Frogs for $$$ (2006), The Mushroom Collector (2010), Hotel Oracle (2013), Contains: 3 Books (2016), Clayton’s Ascent (2018), The Medium is a Mess (2018), Picture Summer on Kodak Film (2020) and The Heart Is a Sandwich (2023). He is co-author with Tamara Shopsin of the photobook for children, This Equals That (2014), co-editor with Gregory Halpern of The Photographer’s Playbook (2014), guest editor of Der Greif Issue 11, editor of Photo No-Nos (2021), and co-editor with Julie Ault and Jordan Weitzman of Ordinary Things Will Be Signs For Us: Photographs by Corita (2023).

https://www.jasonfulford.com/
@mushroom_collector

WORKSHOP WITH
JASON FULFORD

TOKYO, JAPAN
04.11-14, 2024