Its title taken from the seminal photobook by Larry Sultan, this workshop will explore the possibilities of long-term photographic story-telling and its various approaches. Sultan, a photographer and educator, was known for his deeply introspective and layered explorations of home, family and suburban life, using a combination of staged and documentary images.
Inspired by Sultan’s practice, questions arise: How do we document what is closest to us without losing objectivity? How does an extended period of time shape both our image-making and our understanding of those images? We will take an analytical and reflective approach to exploring how memory, identity, homeland and domestic space can shape and re-inform personal narratives.
This workshop is ideal for those who are looking to refine a work in progress. Participants are encouraged to bring at least one ongoing series they are currently pursuing or wish to develop as a long-term project. Through collective discourse, hands-on exercises, one-on-one interactions and artist-led lectures – drawing from personal practice and other relevant works – the module invites participants to reflect on how their photographic practice can evolve, allowing new meanings and layers to emerge over time.
Information
- Venue
- Hohensalzburg Fortress
- Date
- 4. – 16. 8. 25
- Teaching language
- English (Bengali possible)
- Participation fee
- 670 Euro (reduced 495 Euro)
- Requirements
- None
- What to bring
- Laptop (with basic photo-editing software [Photoshop, Adobe Bridge], digital camera (Phone, DSLRS or any other types), material from ongoing projects (photographs, archival material, notes-scans, about 60-100 small working prints)
- Maximum number of participants
- 16
Sarker Protick
Sarker Protick has developed a practice that combines his roles as an image-maker, a teacher and – infrequently – a curator. His often minimal, suspended and atmospheric visuals are coherently open with vast and solemn distance. Working with photography, video and sound, Protick’s works are built on long-term surveys rooted in Bangladesh and the larger region of Bengal. The form and materiality of his works often morph into the physicality of time – its raptures and our inability to grasp or hold time, the process of image-making as the way to expand time. Here we don’t experience time as moving in a straight line, but rather experience it slowing down, recurring, having dips and curves, at times being in a state of constant flux.
Protick studied at the South Asian Media Institute – Pathshala in Dhaka, where he has also been teaching for the past ten years. Protick is a co-curator of Chobi Mela, the longest running international photography festival in Asia. His work has received multiple awards and recognitions, including Joop Swart Masterclass, Foam Talent, Light Work Residency, Magnum Foundation Fund, World Press Photo Award, and others. Protick is represented by Shrine Empire in Delhi.
Website
Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions (selection)
2024 Awngar, C/O Berlin.
2024 Spaces of Separation, Bristol Photo, Bristol (UK).
2022 Nirobodhi (Till Time Stands Still): Sarker Protick, Shrine Empire, Delhi.
2019 Of River and Lost Lands, Impact Doc, Amsterdam.
2016 What Remains, Latvian Museum of Photography, Riga.
Group exhibitions (selection)
2024 11th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane (AU).
2024 Jameel Art Center: At the Edge of Land, Dubai (UEA).
2024 Asia Now Paris, Paris.
2023 Art Jameel: At the Edge of Land, Hayy Jameel, Riyadh.
2023 Synesthetic Notations, Serendipity Art Festival, Goa (IN).
2023 To Enter The Sky, Dhaka Art Summit, Dhaka.
2021 32nd Singapore International Film Festival (SGIFF), Singapore.
2020 Afterglow, Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama (JP).
2020 Nach uns die Sintflut, Kunst Haus Wien, Vienna.
2020 Related Realities, Backlight Triennale, Tampere (FI).
2019 Stories of Earthly Survival, Ci.CLO Biennial, Porto (PT).
2018 Temporary Certainty, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney (AU).
2018 Breaking Point, Triennale der Photographie, Hamburg (DE).
2018 Relics, Singapore Art Week, Singapore.
2017 Chobi Mela Photo Festival IX, Dhaka.
2016 Daegu Photo Biennale, Daegu (KR).
2015 Quai de la Photo Biennale, Paris.
2012 Noorderlicht Photo festival, Gronigen (NL).
