Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
Braubachstraße 30-32, 60311 Frankfurt am Main
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Workshop
UTE NOLL“PREP THE UNSEEN”
“PREP THE UNSEEN”
Saturday/Sunday, February 15/16, 2025,
10 am–5 pm
Subjects
preparation, optimization, presentation, photo selection, handling text and images, concept development, tips for collaborations, coaching.
Workshop schedule
February 15/16: Meeting at 10 am.
The workshop begins with Ute Noll sharing insights on how artistic photography can be effectively showcased in magazines, exhibitions, websites, and social networks. Using her own projects as examples, she demonstrates how text, layout, typography, and images can blend seamlessly into cohesive units and highlights the key questions to consider during preparation and implementation.
The core of the two-day workshop focuses on the individual needs and goals of the participants. Each participant has the opportunity to present themselves and one of their submitted works, discussing their specific objectives, goals, and expectations. This could include developing a conceptual or visual framework for a series, editing a photo story, selecting images for a website, self-publication, or competition, or optimizing their portfolio. Project or artist statements can also be reviewed during the workshop.
Throughout the workshop, Ute Noll provides detailed feedback to each participant in the group. Everyone benefits from the diversity of topics and the unique perspectives and needs of their peers.
Equipment
Participants are asked to submit a series of 15–25 images in JPG format (15x10 cm at 300dpi) by February 1, 2024, to akademie(a)fffrankfurt.org, including a project statement if available.
Location
Fotografie Forum Frankfurt
Braubachstraße 30–32
60311 Frankfurt am Main
Ute Noll at FFF Academy workshop, © FFF/Sandra Schildwächter
Language: German
Price members: 300 EUR
Price non members: 400 EUR
Number of participants: Min. 8 / max. 10
Registration deadline: January 16, 2025
Duration: 2 days
Photographers, visual designers, and artists understand the importance of presenting their work in professional magazines, publishing houses, exhibitions, and during portfolio reviews to gain visibility. Self-publications, social media channels, and exhibitions in off-spaces also offer great opportunities to make one's work accessible to a broader audience. To achieve this successfully, it is crucial to engage deeply with the photographic project, both in terms of content and form.
In this two-day workshop, Ute Noll addresses the needs and wishes of participants in a group setting and provides individual support. Participants receive journalistic and artistic input for their work, as well as practical tips for successful collaboration with art mediators, editors, curators, and designers.
The workshop is structured to include individual journalistic and artistic coaching in a group setting. It focuses on the preparation, optimization, and presentation of photographic projects for media channels such as magazines, exhibitions, websites, and social media platforms. Topics include concept development, professional photo selection, portfolios, self-publication, working with text, image, and typography, and creating captions. There are also tips for collaborating with photo editors, writers, curators, and designers.
Cover and pages of DU magazine, © DU magazine/Ute Noll
Ute Noll is a magazine, book, and exhibition creator, as well as an author specializing in photography. She works as a lecturer at universities of applied sciences and also offers individual artistic and journalistic workshops for developing and presenting one’s work, either 1:1 or in small groups. Her project agency, Ute Noll Visual Projects, and her gallery, UNO ART SPACE, have been based in Stuttgart since 2007. Ute Noll undertakes projects internationally.
Before 2007, she was the photo editor of Frankfurter Rundschau Magazine, where she started in 1999. Since 2013, she has worked as a photo editor for the Swiss magazine Du, where she is also responsible for overall composition and editorial direction. Since 1999, Ute Noll has developed portfolio formats for various magazines and has been regularly invited to international photography festivals and juries, including Fotofest Houston (USA), Lianzhou Foto Festival (China), Hamburg Portfolio Reviews, and the Photolucida Award (Canada). She has also served on the jury for UNICEF's Photo of the Year award. Since 2004, she has co-curated the Darmstadt Days of Photography.
Since 2009, Ute Noll has been a lecturer at Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences and previously taught at FH Dortmund until 2014. Photography books for exhibitions she has curated or co-curated include Hijacked 2: Germany/Australia (Kehrer Verlag, 2010) and Kill Your Darlings (Kerber Verlag, 2011). Ute Noll studied sociology in Tübingen and photography, video, and editing during an exchange program in the United States.
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Registration is mandatory for these events. Space is limited.
After the submission of your data we will send you a confirmation by e-mail. This e-mail also includes the bank information for the transfer of the workshop fee. Your payment should reach our account fourteen days before the start of the workshop and is necessary for the participation. In the event of your absence without prior notice of at least 14 days we can unfortunately not refund the fee of the workshop.
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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.
