« This workshop is not about landscape, portrait or any particular genre, but about you and your photography. A source of inspiration to think and work differently. Inspiration to create new and unique images. »
From July 4 to 9 2023, the Château de Montsoreau-Museum of contemporary art welcomes photographers Paul Hill and Maria Falconer for a 5-day workshop on the theme of inspiration.
On the agenda: presentations, technical exercises, field trips, challenges, debates between participants and facilitators.
Paul Hill
« Hill deals with the great subjects of life, but his approach is oblique, evocative, always beyond, that’s why he moves us. If a camera could capture poetry, maybe that’s what it would look like. » The Guardian
Born in 1941 in Ludlow, Shropshire, Paul Hill worked as a journalist from the late 1950s until he became a freelance photographer in 1965. As a photojournalist, he works for the Birmingham Post & Mail, The Guardian, The Observer, The Telegraph Magazine, and the BBC, among others.
He became a full-time professor of photography at Trent Polytechnic in Nottingham in 1974, where he was later appointed head of the Creative Photography course, the precursor to all current student-centred higher education courses. At that time he and his wife Angela created The Photographers’ Place – the first residential photography studio in the United Kingdom.
Since 1970, he has exhibited regularly in the British Isles, Europe, North America, Japan and Australasia. He is co-author (with Thomas J. Cooper) of Dialogue with Photography (1979/2005), Approaching Photography (1982/2004), White Peak Dark Peak (1990) and Corridor of Uncertainty (2010).
His work is part of the art collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum (London), the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (Bradford), the Arts Council England, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (Paris), the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art, the Australian National Gallery (Canberra), the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston and the Cleveland Museum of Art (USA). A former member of the Canada Council’s first photography committee in the 1970s, he helped create the Derby Festival of Photography in 1991 and, for four years, was director of East Midlands Arts.
Because of his major influence on contemporary British photography, he was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 1990 and, four years later, was awarded an MBE by the Queen for services to photography. Between 1995 and 2010, he was a professor at De Montfort University in Leicester.
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Maria Falconer
Maria Falconer is a photographer, teacher and writer. She holds a BA Hons in Dance Theatre (Laban) and a Master’s degree in Photographic Studies (University of Westminster). She teaches at the University of Montfort.
Maria’s work is particularly focused on photography and dance video. She collaborates with the Scottish Dance Theatre, Ballet Ireland, Dance Base (Scottish National Dance Centre), the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and others.
His work is published in The Guardian, The Times, The Herald and The Scotsman.
She regularly leads workshops specializing in dance photography and writes for magazines such as the Royal Photographic Society Journal.
Maria Falconer’s personal photographic projects are often inspired by her training in contemporary dance, using the body and camera as a means of expressing her ideas and experiences. In 2011, she received a scholarship from the Royal Photographic Society in recognition of her photographic project « Keep Her Innoticed ».
His photographs are exhibited in the United Kingdom, the United States, Belgium, Ireland, East Asia and at the Festival de la photographie d’Arles.
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Price
£495
The price includes :
The administrative costs.
Transfers from and to Saumur station.
Transport to and from Brézé and Chinon.
Entrance to the Château de Brézé.
Beginners accepted.
Information
Maria Falconer
Tel. +44 (0)7740 985 887 / maria@mariafalconer.co.uk
Paul Hill
Tel. +44 (0)7977 700 274 / paul@hillonphotography.co.uk
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