ABOUT THE WORKSHOP 2012 - REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN!

Join Anders Petersen for a challenging and inspiring 3-day workshop at Fotografiska, May 31 - June 2, 2012. It will be three intense days of doing, feeling and talking about photography. Each afternoon you will get a new photo assignments that you complete before the next morning when the discussions and critique take place. You are expected to work hard, and to challenge yourself and your photographic method, under the guidance of Anders Petersen. This is not a technical workshop. The workshop is in English.

This workshop is about approaching photography from a subjective viewpoint where the images you take not only tell stories about someone else or somewhere else, but also say something about the photographer. But it is also very much about being bold and finding your own photographic voice (and eye) – working alone but besides and in dialogue with other participants and with Anders Petersen.

The workshop starts each morning at 10:15 am and ends at 4 pm. Presentations and critique of participants' photo assignments are mixed with discussions on photography – all under the guidance by Anders Petersen. But your day does not finish at 4.30 pm - towards to end of each day Anders hands out a photo assignment and you will have until next morning to complete it.

REQUIREMENTS
The workshop is limited to 15 photographers. This class is for photographers of all levels.

Please note! For the daily photo assignments you will need a DIGITAL camera. The assignments are to be presented digitally, since there will not be time to process and print your photos.

Anders Petersen’s workshop is held next door to Sarah Moon's workshop at the Academy at Fotografiska in Stockholm, Sweden. All participants will share a small lounge where you can have coffee and tea and hang out with your fellow workshop participants as well as the participants form the other workshop next door.

The price includes the workshop fee, lunch Thursday until Saturday, and afternoon snacks.

You are expected to bring all necessary equipment (bring your laptop too, if you have one). You are also expected to make your own travel arrangements and find accommodation in Stockholm.

ABOUT ANDERS PETERSEN
Anders Petersen is one of Sweden’s most internationally recognized photographers. He is renowned for his stream of consciousness approach and his high contrast black and white imagery. Anders Petersen has been shaking up the world of photography ever since his debut of raw and intimate photographs of late-night regulars in a Hamburg bar in the 1960s. That body of work was published as a book, Café Lehmitz, which is now widely considered a seminal work in the development of international photography.

His latest series From Back Home in collaboration with JH Engström, includes over 100 photographs of Värmland, Sweden, the majority of which were taken in 2008. The book was nominated to "The Best Photographic Book in Sweden, 
year 2009" and also Winner of Design Bronze Lion in Cannes.

In From Back Home Petersen captures memories of melancholic times in the sparsely populated region of his teenage years. Petersen’s images present us with a slew of characters. People and situations we have all encountered, such as roughneck teenagers out looking for a good time, the old man who longs for companionship, and the kissing middle-aged couple.

Petersen’s work is deeply rooted in a documentary tradition, but he is moving more and more towards a kind of diary like and  subjective approach to photography. The immediacy of a photograph, paired with Petersen’s chance encounters with his subjects, brings to mind the transience of our existence.

Anders Petersen was born in 1944 in Stockholm, Sweden. In the 1960’s Petersen met with Christer Strömholm who became both his photography teacher and close friend. He has published close to 30 books and soon publishes three more - City Diary vol 1-3 (Steidl). Petersen is represented at the Centre Pompidou, Galerie VU och MEP (Paris), MoMa och Marvelli Gallery (New York), Fotografiska och Moderna Museet (Stockholm), Fotomuseum Winterthur (Winterthur) och Rat Hole Gallery (Tokyo). 

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ABOUT FOTOGRAFISKA ACADEMY
Fotografiska Academy is part of The Swedish Museum of Photography (Fotografiska), and offers courses and workhops in photography and digitial image editing to amateurs and professionals.