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Online Masterclass
LAIA ABRIL“RESEARCH, NARRATIVES, AND PLATFORMS”
“RESEARCH, NARRATIVES, AND PLATFORMS”
Saturday/Sunday, November 05/06, 2022,
2–6 pm
This masterclass will be postponed to 2023. New dates will be announced soon.
Themes
New visions on documentary, research, text and photo, varied media approach, photo books and installation
Online masterclass schedule
November 05/06 2022:
Meeting at 2 pm (CET) via Zoom. Laia Abril presents her work and discusses alternative methods to enhance your message. Image and project discussion.
Equipment
The participants need a computer with a camera and an good internet connection to participate in this online masterclass.
Location
Online masterclass, digital via online conversation. The exact link to the online conversation will be sent to the participants in advance.
Laia Abril, © Mahala Nuuk, 2020
From the project “On Abortion”, © Laia Abril
Language: English
Catalan artist Laia Abril, who’s research-based work revolves around conceptualization and interpretation of facts, will teach participants the best strategies to use in order to enhance the investigation and construction of a photographic narrative. Examples of her work methodology both in books and installations, will act as examples for participants to think laterally about their own projects. This masterclass will also look at a combination of different artist using mediums other than photography, such as design, text, film, or illustration to transform an idea into a wider artistic project as well as providing further bibliography.
From the project “Menstruation Myths”, © Laia Abril
Laia Abril (*1986) is a research-based artist working with photography, text, video and sound. After graduating in Journalism in Barcelona and studying photography in New York, she joined FABRICA in 2009 – the creative residency of the Benetton Group in Italy, where she worked for five years as an editor and staff photographer at Colors Magazine.
Her work has been exhibited in more than 15 countries and is part of private and public collections such as the Centre Pompidou and FRAC (Fonds régionaux d’art contemporain) in France, the Photo Elysée and Fotomuseum Winterthur in Switzerland or Foto Colectania and MNAC in Barcelona. Her projects have been supported by the Magnum Foundation (New York, 2019), the Visionary Award (London, 2018), or FotoPres (Barcelona, 2016) and her career has been recognized with the Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro (Arles 2016), The Hood Medal (London, 2019) and the FOAM Paul Huf Award (Amsterdam, 2020), among others. Abril is author of several books like The Epilogue (2014, Dewi Lewis) or Lobismuller (2016, Editorial RM). In 2018 she published A History of Misogyny, Chapter one: On Abortion; the same-titled project was nominated for the prestigious Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation Prize, the book was winner of the Aperture-Paris Photo Best Book Award. The follow-up book, Chapter two: On Rape (Dewi Lewis) will be published soon.
Abril is represented by the Parisian gallery Les Filles du Calvaire, and is currently developing her next installation, On Mass Hysteria (Le Bal, Paris & Photo Elysée 2023).
FOTOGRAFIE FORUM FRANKFURT
The Fotografie Forum Frankfurt (FFF) is one of the leading centres of photography in Europe. As an exhibition space, institution and event forum the FFF deals with all aspects of photography. Since its founding in 1984 it has presented more than 290 exhibitions with historic and contemporary artists. Additionally, the programme of the FFF comprises of regular workshops, talks and discussions with internationally renowned photographers, artists and experts.
