Photographers are very good in the images they make but often lack the ability to communicate about them and themselves as artists. Being the author or the promoter of your work are two completely different skills. During this workshop Kessels will be interacting with the participants how to better edit, present and communicate about your own work towards clients, galleries, curators and museums. Apart from this there will be also an inside into his personal way of working with vernacular photography.

Over a period of two days, Erik Kessels will prepare the participants for their possibilities and obstructions they will face in their professional career in the field of photography. Participants work on several small tasks to get more known to this facet of photography. On a more practical note, preparations for budgets, job processes and decision making will pass by in the weekend.

HOW TO PARTECIPATE:

To register for the workshop you must fill out the dedicated form. Follow the guidelines to register successfully. The place is to be considered reserved only after payment of the fee.

• FAILURE TO REACH MINIMUM NUMBER If the minimum number of participants is not reached, the workshop will be canceled and the total registration fee will be refunded.

• *EXCEEDING THE MAXIMUM NUMBER Once the maximum number of participants is exceeded, the participation fee will be refunded to those not selected. PRS s.r.l. Impresa Sociale will refer for participation in the workshop on the date of receipt of the registration on the Google Form.

STORYTELLING AND RE-APPROPRIATING PHOTOGRAPHY

MAY 9TH @LiquidaPhotofestival - TALK WITH ERIK KESSELS:

Over the 20 years of his career, Kessels has come to the fore as a main and unquestionable reference in the field of so-called ‘found photography’. Instead of shooting new images, for most of his projects he brings together pre-existent photographs and reuses them as tiles to form his own mosaic. He is an artist without a camera or even a lens: in his practice, photography is a ready-made element to be sampled and re-contextualised. The result is a sort of eco-system of images, through which nothing is added to the enormous quantity of imagery which now crowds out the world and grows exponentially day by day, but which on the contrary merely recoups and recycles that which is already there.

In this lecture Kessels will highlight his latest publications and give an insight in collecting and editing the photographs often found online or on flea markets from all over the world. 

Another subject of the lecture is the role of images in the time we live in and how you can look at these in other ways than simply consuming them.

ERIK KESSELS:

Erik Kessels is a Dutch artist, curator and communication designer, with great interest in art and photography. Erik Kessels is since 1996 Creative Partner of communications agency KesselsKramer.

As an artist and curator Kessels has published over 100 books of his 're-appropriated' images and has written the international bestseller Failed It! and Complete Amateur.

He has taught at several Art Academies (Amsterdam, Milan, Toronto, Lausanne, Düsseldorf). 

Kessels made and curated exhibitions such as Loving Your Pictures, Mother Nature, 24HRS in Photos, Album Beauty and Unfinished Father. Currently he’s working on a long-term European art project called Europe Archive.

In 2010 Kessels was awarded with the Amsterdam Prize of the Arts, in 2016 nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. Until 2022 his mid-career retrospective is shown in Turin, Düsseldorf and Budapest and he exhibited recently in the SFMOMA. He was called “a visual sorcerer” by Time Magazine and a “Modern Anthropologist” by Voque (Italia).