“Hijacking Reality” – Paris Workshop with Boris Eldagsen

Boris Eldagsen grew up in the South-West of Germany and studied photography and visual arts at the Art Academy of Mainz (Vladimir Spacek & Klaus Vogelgesang), conceptual art and intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague (Miloš Šejn & Milan Knížák) and fine art the Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication Hyderabad, India (Laxma Goud). In addition I studied philosophy at the Universities of Cologne and Mainz.

Paris – Emaho Magazine in collaboration with Le Petite Espace announces our first workshop in Paris with German photographer Boris Eldagsen.

HIJACKING REALITY

What does an artist need to produce strong Staged Photography? Expensive camera equipment? Professional light? Assistants? Actors? Set designers? Make-up? No! Just a good eye, intuition and a personal understanding of one‘s subject are all you need. Having worked with photo-media for 20 years, Boris Eldagsen will give his insights into how to increase your skills in working with what you have. During the course we will learn how to enhance our creative imagination and develop strategies to break conventional rules and leave with images we may have thought were never possible.

Date: 13-14th November, 2015

Number of participants: 12

Requirements: Any digital camera or smartphone, card reader, torch

Tuition Fee: 250 Euros

Location: 15 rue bouchardon – Paris, France

Schedule:

Day 1

10 am – 11 am: Speed dating to get to know eachother and build the teams

11 am – noon: Photography 101, Creative Strategies I,

noon – 2.30 pm: Team Work

2.30pm –4 pm: Evaluation, group discussion, choosing the focus for day 2

Day 2

10 am – 11 am: From photography to directing

11 am – noon: Focus of the day, Creative Strategies II

noon – 3pm: Team Work

3pm –4 pm: Evaluation, group discussion, Future Possibilities

Please Note Chosen participants are expected to bear their own travel. Please note that your final participation is subject to realization of fees and is non-refundable. HOW TO APPLY Send an email to MANIKKATYAL@EMAHOMAGAZINE.COM with “Hijacking Reality with Boris Eldagsen” written in the subject line, and attach the following: Upto 10 low-resolution JPEG photos. (Please note that each photo should be 800 pixels on the longer side saved in a zip folder. Maximum size of the zip folder should not be more than 5 MB.) Also CV or a short biography

Boris Eldagsen

Berlin-based German artist Boris Eldagsen studied photography and visual arts at the Art Academy of Mainz, conceptual art and intermedia at the Academy of Fine Arts, Prague and fine art the Sarojini Naidu School of Arts & Communication Hyderabad, India. In addition, he studied philosophy at the Universities of Cologne and Mainz. 2013, he participated in a Roger Ballen Masterclass. His photomedia work has been shown internationally in institutions and festivals including Fridericianum Kassel, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, CCP Melbourne, ACP Sydney, EMAF Osnabrück, Videonale Bonn, Edinburgh Art Festival, Encontros da Imagem Braga, Athens Video Art Festival, Media Forum Moscow, WRO Media Art Biennale Wroclaw, Biennale Le Havre and Biennale of Electronic Arts Perth. Boris has lectured at Centre for Ideas – Victorian College of the Arts / University Melbourne, the Photography Studies College Melbourne, the Akademie für Bildende Künste Mainz, Hochschule Furtwangen, the Sommerakademie of Fotografie Forum Frankfurt, Westlicht Wien, F/Stop Leipzig, Centre for Contemporary Photography Melbourne, RMIT University Melbourne and Monash University Melbourne. Since 2014, Boris is a member of Deutsche Fotografische Akademie.