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
MARSEILLE WORKSHOP with Vasantha Yogananthan
ATHENS WORKSHOP with Patricia Morosan and Sylvia Sachini
BARCELONA WORKSHOP with Laia Abril and Max Pinckers
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KRAKOW WORKSHOP with Rafal Milach
BUDAPEST WORKSHOP with Claudia Küssel and Peter Puklus
BERLIN WORKSHOP with Michael Grieve
Useful websites:
https://kow-berlin.com/artists/tobias-zielony
www.hamburgwerkstattfotografie.com