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