PRESS RELEASE:
The Overlooking the Wye Scheme is looking for budding photographers to take part in an exciting workshop over two consecutive Saturdays at the beginning of May .
Nowadays people often take for granted the speed and simplicity of taking digital photographs, we take camera phones with us wherever we go and think nothing of snapping away. But the true art of photography is still alive and kicking in the Wye Valley. Talented young photographers Steve Brown and Lucy Gibson have put together a workshop that will test the skill and imagination of any budding photographers young or old using the historic method of ‘pinhole’ photography.
Based on the fundamental techniques of the early photographers of the 19th Century, mystical and atmospheric shots can be achieved using the most basic principles: a hole in a piece of tin and a light tight container. In this case converting abandoned old cameras; replacing the lens with a pin-hole.
The workshop will start with a session on the basic principles of traditional photography on the first Saturday and then participants will venture out into the picturesque landscape of the lower Wye to try out their artistic skills- the participants will be allowed to keep the camera for a week to explore their own creativity. On the second Saturday there will be a session to look at the results from the week before and another chance to improve upon them. The Overlooking the Wye scheme hope that the results will be good enough to exhibit later in the summer.
The workshops will run on Saturday the 1st and the 8th of May and cost £20 for the two days, having been subsidised by the Overlooking the Wye scheme.
Further details and bookings can be obtained from the Overlooking the Wye Office on 01600 891527
The work is part of Overlooking the Wye, a Heritage Lottery Funded scheme managed through the Wye Valley Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) Partnership.
Steve Brown and Lucy Gibson both graduated from a BA in Documentary Photography in 2008 and have since been working collaboratively on various commissions. They won the Reginald Salisbury prize in 2009 for their pinhole project on the urbanization of the Spanish Costa del Sol and are currently working on a commission for the Hereford Photography Festival.