Large Format Photography Workshops Series

from Open Eye and Redeye

Large format offers the ultimate in photographic quality. Redeye and Open Eye present a unique series of three one-day workshops to challenge and inspire you. The workshops are aimed at anyone interested in photography, whether or not you have experience of large format.

Numbers are strictly limited. You can book onto any of the three workshops, or book all three together and save up to £30.

Masterclass with John Davies: Monday 28 November 2011

This is a rare chance to join John Davies, one of the UK's top large and medium format landscape photographers, as he discusses his ideas and techniques out and about on the Liverpool Waterfront. He will talk about different technique for colour and B&W film on large format, and compare digital to analogue. Please note that the workshop will take place whatever the weather, so bring suitable clothing. You can bring a camera if you wish but please make sure you are happy carrying it through the day.

Booking details:

Masterclass with John Davies is limited to 15 people; tickets are £70 (£50 concession).

There are also other events in this series:

Introduction to Large Format is limited to 25 people; tickets are £50 (£30 concession).

Build your own 10x8” Pinhole Camera is limited to 8 people; tickets are £70 (£50 concession) - including the cost of the camera.

** Save up to £30 by booking for all three workshops - total price is £160 (£110 concession). **

All prices include VAT. Tea and coffee are included but not lunch.

Concession tickets are available for the unwaged or students. Please bring proof of status.

All workshops start at 10:30, finish approx 17:00, and take place at Open Eye Gallery, 19 Mann Island, Liverpool Waterfront, Liverpool, L3 1BP.

Biography:

John Davies

John Davies is one of today's most outstanding British photographers; he became famous through his research on the English industrial landscape, observed in vast and detailed views.

"John's work belongs to the world of contemporary documentary photography. Faithful to a refined, pure black and white, taken on as the absolute rule of a subtle, analytic style. He chooses the vastness of space inhabited by the powerful elements of nature and the contradictory ones of culture to operate in two directions. On the one hand, the evocation of emotional states through the photographic rendering of a space-light that is alive, almost metaphysical, and recalls the symbolisation of the forces of nature in Turner. On the other, a crystal-clear gaze that sounds the material aspects of the contemporary landscape which is tied to the development of the productive activities and concrete structuring of the world through the moulding power of economy and property."

Roberta Valtorta, 2000