When: 5x wednesdays from 30.10., 18.15-20.00 pm
Language: English
Where: Zoom online
Coursleader: Kristin Dittrich, CEO Shift School for contemporary photography Germany
Fee: 520€/ until 19.10.24 Early Bird, then 600€,
Classes: 30.10., 6.11., 13.11., 20.11.and 27.11.24
Curating Photography
Zoom Masterclass
with Kristin Dittrich
Start: 30. Oktober 2024
The curatorial aspect of photography is becoming increasingly important in our time. We humans are locked in a flood of images and have already seen so many pictures that we want to find highly unusual visual experiences catching our interest. This is why curating photography is one of the most important disciplines in showing photography in exhibitions and books today.
In this Masterclass held by german photospecialist Kristin Dittrich, participants will learn what happens between two and serveral images in terms of content? What content-related information connects them, what separates and deepens them. The more questions a photograph raises, the more interesting it becomes. The more philosophically, ethically, culturally, sociologically and aesthetically relevant a photograph is, the more decisively we can speak of its high artistic quality and the greater its chance of being perceived, the greater its imprint on our memory.
Each participant will hold an equal number of 50 of the most famous photographic artists of our time, each with 20 images, with which they will practise curating in the course.
For 20 years Kristin Dittrich in Germany has been researching and inventing new methods and forms of curating photography that go far beyond what we see in classical exhibitions. Strong curation makes it possible to perceive, view and read an image comprehensively. 10 years ago Kristin Dittrich began teaching the art of curating photography as one of the first pioniers in this dicipline in Europe.
In order for us to perceive, read and store images in our brains, a multitude of prerequisites must be created thematically, spatially and organizationally, which we refer to as “curating”. From the idea to the production, many clever steps and decisions have to be taken in order to be heard by the public.
Great moments occur among the participants when what they have learned becomes visible in the curatorial exercises: Each participant will work with an equal number of 50 of the most famous photo artists of our time, each with 20 pictures, with which they will practice curating in the course.
Course content
Exhibition formats for photography
Areas of expertise of a good exhibition curator
Pioneering curators for contemporary photography
How to develop a relevant exhibition theme?
Visual storytelling in photography
How to judge high image quality?
The meta-themes in contemporary photography
The curator's image archive - Where can I find relevant images?
The picture turns into installation - New hangings in photography
How do you approach curators? How do you approach artists?
Tell or let tell: Photography as a metaphor
Introduction to the dramaturgical art of exhibiting
Interaction of images: Main images. Bridge pictures. Note pictures
Rhythm and beat in an exhibition
The influence of space on images - The power of spaces
Relevance creates publicity / The art of advertising
Marketing strategies for exhibitions
Contracts, insurance and transportation of photography
Answers on Pricing and Editions.
From the planning to the realization of an exhibition
in Europe Kristin Dittrich's curating photography Masterclass appears for th frist time in the english speaking community worlwide. In Germany course is communicated via the German Museums Association and the Association of German Art Historians. It is held at regular intervals at German and European art universitys, photography centers, art associations and universities and is aimed at both private individuals and employees in the sector. Would you like to offer the course in your institution enviroment? Please send us an email 3 months in advance: office@shift-school.com
About your teacher: Kristin Dittrich (born 1977 in Dresden) is an art specialist in contemporary photography. She completed her master's degree in photography research at the Sorbonne in Paris at the end of the 1990s and trained as an art critic at an state cultural radio as art critic for photography. At the beginning of her professional career, she worked in the founding team of the art fair Paris Photo. With this experience, she founded and established the international photography festival f/stop in Leipzig in Germany. After working at Documenta 13 and Kunsthalle Prague, Kristin founded the photography school Shift School in Dresden and Vienna, where she works as a photography mentor with a training program on all aspects of photography in the field of art today. Kristin Dittrich exclusively took over the photo book collection of the photo publisher Gerhard Steidl.
Kristin is proud of her professional development in Paris and Vienna, her deep insights for photography from Leipzig after 89, her Steidl Library, her deep knowledge of visual storytelling techniques after Robert Frank, Wolfgang Tillmans and Timm Rautert and her worldwide network of artists, curators, practitioners, publishers and academic colleagues.
Her explicit thanks go to the people in the industry who have so truly shared and supported her journey in photography: Prof. Anna Kaisa Rastenberger, Helsinki, Gerhard Steidl, Göttingen, Dr. Petr Nedoma, Prague, Prof. Michel Poivert, Sorbonne, Paris and Prof. Klaus Honnef, Bonn.
Her previous professional axes: Dresden - Prague - Vienna - Paris. Kristin Dittrich has lived and worked in Dresden and Vienna since October 2021. Since 2024 she starts to explore the English and American Working Landscape in Photography.
Pictures: Pola Sieverding. Bling. Bling and T.Rötting f/stop Festival Archiv by Kristin Dittrich
Unser Fachkurs: Die Werkzeuge des Fotografiekurators.
