One-year programme

2025
Berlin, Marseille, Athens, Barcelona, Krakow, Budapest

About the
PROGRAMME

OVERVIEW

AFM One Year Program 2025

ArtFotoMode (AFM) offers an independent photography program over a twelve-month period in professional partnership with the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in Budapest.

The program is an educational framework within which participating photographers can research, develop and produce strong, concise and meaningful projects, exploring the challenging process of creative and intellectual visual strategies.

The emphasis of the program is experiential, and to study the production of works within the broad spectrum of the ‘documentary’ genre, engaging with the predominant dialogues within the photographic medium including issues related to the: subjective/objective, social/private, document/art. Understanding authorship, narrative and conceptual factors will be the key ingredients in finding the correct approach to the specific subject matter. Often over looked, is the human experience of how we see and perceive reality. Optics and how we visualise reality are key factors in building the foundation of photographic projects.

Over the course of twelve-months there are seven physical workshop sessions in various European cities. Each workshop will be conducted by notable, renowned and experienced photographers, editors, and curators, as tutors. The aim of each workshop meeting is to make critical progress with the developing projects, both as a group and individual tutorials. Importantly, between the workshops, participants will be required to have regular online meetings with the AFM director, Michael Grieve, who will be the overseer of the entire program.

Participants can begin the program with projects that are in the early stages of development or begin with new projects.

The six European cities will act as inspirational environments to aid in the creative process. We will have private visits to museums, archives and artists studio’s. The locations for the 2025 program are Berlin, Krakow, Athens, Marseille, Budapest and Barcelona.

The AFM program is purely independent, and recognises the importance, and growing necessity, for intensive, experiential and less formal modes of photography education.

 

WORKSHOP PROGRAM 2025

  • BERLIN, April 03-06: Christian Patterson
  • MARSEILLE, July 01-04: Vasantha Yogananthan
  • ATHENS, September 08-14:  Sylvia Sachini & Patricia Morosan
  • BARCELONA, November 01-05: Laia Abril & Max Pinckers
  • KRAKOW, February 03-06: Rafal Milach
  • BUDAPEST, April: Peter Puklus & Claudia Küssel
  • BERLIN, May: Michael Grieve

Profiles of all the tutors are featured in the CONTRIBUTORS section.

 

BERLIN WORKSHOP with Christian Patterson

  • Introduction to the program, workshop and each other
  • Short introductory presentations by each participant
  • Presentation by Christian Patterson and an introduction to his creative practice
  • Presentations of potential project ideas and research from each participant
  • The aim is for participants to have a clearer idea of projects ideas before the end of the workshop
  • Private view of the Kicken Gallery current exhibition and archive

 

MARSEILLE WORKSHOP with Vasantha Yogananthan

  • Day one is an introduction to the workshop and an overview of projects with Michael Grieve
  • Short introductory presentations by each participant
  • Presentation by Vasantha Yogananthan and an introduction to his creative practice
  • Presentations and critique of projects in progress from each participant
  • The aim is for participants to have concise visual strategies about their projects

 

ATHENS WORKSHOP with Patricia Morosan and Sylvia Sachini 

  • Day one is an introduction to the workshop and an overview of projects with Michael Grieve
  • Short introductory presentations by each participant to Patricia Morosan and Sylvia Sachini
  • Introduction and presentations by Patricia Morosan and Sylvia Sachini
  • Presentations and critiques of projects in progress from each participant
  • At this point we begin to discuss editing, book production and exhibitions

 

BARCELONA WORKSHOP with Laia Abril and Max Pinckers

  • Day one is an introduction to the workshop and an overview of projects with Michael Grieve
  • Short introductory presentations by each participant to Laia Abril and Max Pinckers
  • Introduction and presentations by Laia Abril and Max Pinckers
  • Presentations and critiques of projects in progress from each participant

 

KRAKOW WORKSHOP with Rafal Milach

  • Day one is an introduction to the workshop and an overview of projects with Michael Grieve
  • Short introductory presentations by each participant to Rafal Milach
  • Introduction and presentations by Rafal Milach
  • Presentations and critiques of projects in progress from each participant

 

BUDAPEST WORKSHOP with Claudia Küssel and Peter Puklus

  • Day one is an introduction to the workshop and an overview of projects with Michael Grieve
  • Short introductory presentations by each participant to Claudia Küssel and Peter Puklus
  • Introduction and presentations by Claudia Küssel and Peter Puklus
  • Presentations and critiques of projects in progress from each participant

 

BERLIN WORKSHOP with Michael Grieve

  • This workshop is a summation of the program and what has been achieved
  • We discuss the final exhibition of work made during the program

 

CONCLUSION and EXHIBITION

The endeavour of the AFM One Year Program is for those who participate to produce a body of work that is the best it can possibly be. These projects can be finished or in the process of being produced. During the program participants will have the chance and ability to meet a variety of professionals who can help them directly or indirectly towards the publication of books and and involvement in exhibitions and festivals; for example the 2022 and 2023 programs were invited to have a group exhibition as part of the Athens Photo Festival 2024. At the end of each program there will be an exhibition that marks the end of the program the work produced during the year. The 2022 and 2023 programs will exhibit at the Kunstquartier Bethanien Berlin from 24-27 October 2024. This is also an excellent experience for participants to organise and understand their work in a gallery context.

 

 

Useful websites:

www.capacenter.hu

www.archivmichaelschmidt.de

www.kicken-gallery.com

www.1000wordsmag.com

www.davidcampany.com

www.laiaabril.com

www.rafalmilach.com

www.theeyes.eu

www.peterpuklus.com

https://kow-berlin.com/artists/tobias-zielony

www.miscathens.com

www.hamburgwerkstattfotografie.com

www.michaelgrieve.co.uk

 

Michael Grieve/Director of ArtFotoMode

Since 2010 I have been a senior lecturer at universities and taught at independent schools of photography; Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie, Berliner Technische Kunsthochschule, Akademia Fotografii Warsaw, Nottingham Trent University. In 2023 I founded the Werkstatt Fotografie, a space for education/exhibitions/events in Berlin and Hamburg.

In London I studied a BA in Film, Video and Photography and an MA in Photographic Studies both at the University of Westminster and graduated in 1997. I proceeded to join Agence VU and worked on assignments as a photojournalist and portrait photographer for publications worldwide including Le Monde, Liberation, Weekend Guardian, Newsweek, The Independent and the Sunday Times Magazine. In 2011 I joined 1000 Words Contemporary Photography Magazine as deputy editor and I have been a regular contributing writer for the British Journal of Photography since 2009.

As a photographer I work on long term projects.

I have experienced the teaching of photography first hand and have concluded that independent forms of photographic education are the way forward.  The AFM program is offering new possibilities, built and inspired by the old forms of photography education, such as the Werkstatt für Photographie in Berlin during the 80’s, conducted by Michael Schmidt, that brought many great photographers to teach in its humble abode, and the Stockholm School of Photography, directed by Christer Stromholm in the 60’s and 70’s. Contemporary alternative schools of photography can be found in Europe, each with their unique vision, including documentary based Ostkreuzschule für Fotofrafie in Berlin, and the more intimate Atelier Smedsby in Paris. The ethos is for photographers to come together with a shared belief in the medium, and produce meaningful projects within an intense yet informal framework. Even if the camera is directed away from oneself the emphasis is always on the subjective experience.

About the
TUTORS

Workshop
INFORMATION

Participants

a maximum of 14

Deadline

01 February 2025

Earlybird price

Normal price

3800 euros
Fees can be paid in two installments
This price is for the workshop only, not accommodation

In order to apply for a workshop you can either send an email or fill in the following form and we will contact you.

For more information about the workshop contact artfotomode@gmail.com

Via email
To submit your work you can send an email to: artfotomode@gmail.com, including a short C.V, a statement and a pdf file containing up to 15 images of your work.

Via application form
To submit your work you can fill in the following form and attach a zip folder including a short C.V, a statement and a pdf file containing up to 15 images of your work.

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