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3-DAY WORKSHOP WITH GREG GIRARD
“PHOTOGRAPHING WHERE YOU DON’T BELONG”
FRIDAY JAN 31 + SATURDAY FEB 1 + SUNDAY FEB 2, 2020
SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
Photographing where you don’t belong is the best way to know how far photography can take you!
Join us and acclaimed Vancouver-based photographer Greg Girard for a most exciting journey in the heart of Seoul, South Korea, spending three full days with him exploring his phenomenal 3-decade rich experience working in East Asia – an unparalleled visual account of urban transformations and street photography prowess – and sharing his unique artistic insights through portfolio reviews and a directed assignment. Participants will have a selection of their assignment images featured in a special edition publication printed by FotoFilmic.
Greg Girard is a noted juror of the FOTOFILMIC18 exhibition, scheduled to open in Seoul at The Reference on January 30, 2020.
© Cover image: Greg Girard, House on Huashan Lu, 2006. From the series Phantom Shanghai.
© Greg Girard, Bar Interior, Wanchai, 1985. From the series HK:PM Hong-Kong Night Life 1974-1989.
© Greg Girard, Ikebukuro Subway Station, 1976. From the series Tokyo-Yokosuka 1976-1983.
© Greg Girard, Six Hundred Things (Pinghu Lu), 2005. From the series Phantom Shanghai.
@ Greg Girard, ‘Home Base’ Bar, Naha, 2008. From the series Hotel Okinawa.
ABOUT GREG GIRARD
Greg Girard is a Canadian photographer who has spent much of his career in Asia. His work has examined the social and physical transformations in Asia, especially in its largest cities, for more than three decades. He is the author of several photographic books. City of Darkness Revisited, published 2014, revives an early collaboration with co-author Ian Lambot, and updates their influential book, City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City (Watermark, 1993). Based in Shanghai between 1998 and 2011, his photographic monograph, Phantom Shanghai (Magenta, Toronto, 2007), with a foreword by novelist William Gibson, looks at the rapid and at times violent changes in China’s largest city as Shanghai raced to remake itself at the beginning of the 21st Century.
Other recent titles include Tokyo-Yokosuka 1976-1983, (Magenta, Toronto, 2019), Hotel Okinawa, (The Velvet Cell, Osaka, 2017); Under Vancouver 1972-1982 (Magenta, Toronto, 2017); Hanoi Calling (Magenta, Toronto, 2010); and In the Near Distance (Kominek, Berlin, 2010), a collection of early photographs made in Asia and North America between 1973 and 1986.
The International Centre of Photography in New York featured his series “Half the Surface of the World”, a survey of US military bases and their host communities in Asia, in 2012. His work is in the collection of National Gallery of Canada, Art Gallery of Ontario, Vancouver Art Gallery, M+ Museum Hong Kong, and other public and private collections. He is represented by Monte Clark Gallery, Vancouver, and is a contributing photographer to National Geographic Magazine.
Instagram:@gregforaday
www.greggirard.com
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
How possible is it to make meaningful work in a country you’ve never been? In an environment where you can’t verbally communicate? In a place you’ve only experienced second-hand via social media, mainstream media, film, books etc? Or in a city you know next to nothing about but where, for one reason or another, you find yourself?
Greg Girard will present work from his thirty-year career living in Hong Kong, Tokyo and Shanghai, photographing across Asia, including Korea, from the 1970s until now. He will discuss the approaches that have served in producing books like “City of Darkness: Life in Kowloon Walled City”, “Phantom Shanghai”, “Hotel Okinawa” and other bodies of work about places where in one way or another Girard began as an “outsider”. In a globalized world where images are untethered from geography, what does it mean to be a photographer from “elsewhere”?
Participants will present portfolios of current work for review and & photograph an assignment in Seoul. A small publication featuring works from the participants produced during the workshop will be published by FotoFilmic. Participants will each receive a copy.
SCHEDULE
FRIDAY, JANUARY 31
Morning: guest artist Greg Girard presentation + assignment hand out
Afternoon: participants’ portfolio reviews
Evening: participants start shooting their assignment the first evening
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 1
All day: participants’ portfolio reviews
Evening: participants continue shooting their assignment the second evening
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 2
All day: assignment critique + final editing for FotoFilmic publication
EARLY MARCH 2020
Seoul Limited Edition FotoFilmic Print Publication copies mailed to participants
WORKSHOP LOCATION: SEOUL 서울
