Master Class Stig Marlon Weston

«What do you take pictures of?»

MASTER CLASS WITH STIG MARLON WESTON (NO)

Date: August 24-26th, 2020 Time: 5-8pm daily Place: The National Museum of Finland at the Häkälä building / access from Töölönkatu 1 Language: English

Guest lecturer: Henri Airo (FI)

This workshop will help you dive deeper into your own photo project and lead you to a better understanding of your own work. We will have a focus on discussing the participant´s individual projects as we go through ways of developing ideas and how you use these methods to present and talk about your work. Through practical exercise and group discussions you will improve both your practice and your method of presentation for approaching collaborators and galleries.

The workshop will be centered around a series of project presentations by invited guest photographers and the following presentation of your own work to them. Together we will look at how you can develop your ideas and your photo project further and practice how to present it in a more focused way. In addition, homework assignments will open you up for new lines of thought in your personal work, and talks on photographic method and philosophy will improve your work process and prepare you to take your project to the next level. At the end of the workshop the participants present their projects in front of an audience.

Three day long photography workshop led by Norwegian photographer Stig Marlon Weston, an experienced photo artist, teacher and curator.

Stig Marlon Weston's portfolio

WORKSHOP PROGRAM

At 4:30pm Monday 24th of August, we met up at the Häkälä building for an informal introduction to exhibitions of Helsinki Photo Festival at The National Museum of Finland Summer Yard to a small social gathering before the workshop program starts on Monday.

The workshop run from Monday 24th of August to Wednesday 26th of August. Every day the program started at 5pm running till 8pm. The daily schedule included talks and group discussions, presentations by guest photographers, portfolio presentations by each participant, and homework assignments for the next day.

Stig Marlon Weston workshop with Finnish guest teacher Henri Airo, and participants at National Museum of Finland, Helsinki Photo Festival 2o2o

On Wednesday 26th of August the participants were invited to present their projects to a public audience together with the workshop teacher. Due to Covid19 restrictions the amount of people was limited to 10 participants.

Stig Marlon Weston

Stig Marlon Weston (b. 1974) is based in Oslo, Norway. He shares his time between his own practice as a photo artist, running the studio collective CYAN studio and working as a commercial photographer. Focusing on process-based and philosophical photography Stig uses cameraless techniques and analog processes to make his pictures become unique proofs of a truth unseen by human eyes. He wants to connect the subject closer to the image and aims to encourage the viewer to reflect on what they expect to see and understand in a photograph. His work has been exhibited in many countries. Also, Stig curates and organizes exhibitions and photography events with other photographers ́ works.

Guest teacher: Henri Airo

Henri Airo (b. 1996, Helsinki, Finland) is a visual artist working with photography. He is studying a BA in photography at the Lahti Institute of Design and Fine Arts. His personal work revolves around visually presenting perspectives on social phenomena I find important. In addition to his artistic practice, Henri Airo has held courses in photographic practice for institutions such has HEO folk high school and HIY (Helsinki disabled association). He has also worked as a freelance photographer for newspapers such as the leading Finnish daily newspaper Helsingin Sanomat.