Workshops with Evi
Photography, experiment, and perception in dialogue
very well suited for beginners.
Info
My offers are also available in simple language.
They are adapted to the groups as needed.
Do you fancy
Cooperation?
Together with social service providers and cultural institutions, I am happy to take care of financial support so that the workshops are available to participants free of charge. If you have an idea, a location, or a group, please contact me.
References:
I have already implemented funded workshops for the Bürgerzentrum Ehrenfeld, the Photoszene Köln, the Museumsdienst Köln, and the PhotobookMuseum.
For example, workshops with the titles: “Bunt vor Grau”, “Klimagefühle”, “BankBaumBeton” were created. I like to develop location- or project-related offers. I can adapt these to different technical and practical knowledge as well as language skills. In the joint project development, my wish is to invite all participants to participate in the design. This can be expressed in different ways – up to the realization of a participative art project with an open, joint process.
I consciously pay attention to low barriers to entry and, at the same time, through my work as a photography lecturer at the University of Bonn, I can integrate media-critical perspectives and discourses, provided that these are initiated by the participants. I enjoy conveying photography as an access to one’s own ideas or concepts.
Self-description:
My diverse experience with different people in teaching and education has made me flexible and, above all, curious – curious about what we can learn from each other with the help of photography. For me, photography is a language that allows me to get to know my own view of the world again and again and to deal with it attentively. My approaches are influenced by art and media education and value the process equally to impressive visual results at the end of a workshop. Exercises from my own artistic research photography appear again and again as small impulses. My own experience with photography is an important source for a versatile workshop design.
I myself perceive photography as a calming section of a chaotic world.
In participatory installations and actions in public space, I like to integrate photography to enable access via one’s own visual experience and to set a focus. Here you can find insights into these actions:
Here are four workshop offers
1
Do you fancy
“Photo Scavenger Hunt”?
Together we will discover our surroundings and take a close look.
Brief description:
We learn how to take better pictures with our cell phones and let ourselves be inspired by small photo snippets. These are small poetic word and picture snippets that we take with us on our search. They make us curious and sharpen our view.
Examples of word snippets:
- round and colorful
- something that glitters and shines
- observed on the edge
If you enjoy photography and discovery, this is the place for you! The workshop is very well suited for beginners and advanced learners. We learn to combine technology and image creation.
For groups of up to 15 participants (young people from 14 years and adults) I offer a 3.5h workshop.
Contents:
- photographic basics (image design)
- telling stories with pictures
- Exercises for playful photography
- Discover
- Finding perspectives
- Observing light
Costs: 400.00 Euro (gross) for the whole group, incl. preparation and material
That’s really fun! Whether with a cell phone or a professional camera.
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2
Do you fancy
Experiments?
A touch can be weak. A touch can also be strong.
And everything in between.
Brief description:
We experiment with images that have a touch for us and create our own image ideas. We use colorful everyday objects and lots of imagination. It can be colorful, abstract and fun. The workshop is well suited for young and old, no previous knowledge is necessary.
For groups of up to 15 participants (children from 8 years, young people and adults) I offer a 3.5h workshop. For beginners and advanced learners.
Contents:
- Looking at pictures
- Developing image ideas
- experimenting
- staging
- photographing with your own camera or cell phone.
Costs: 400.00 Euro (gross) for the whole group, incl. preparation and material.
I’ll bring the lighting equipment!
Photographing means
Susan Sontag (1980): “In Plato’s Cave”, In: On Photography: Essays, FISCHER Taschenbuch Verlag, p.21
participating in the mortality,
vulnerability and changeability
of other people (or things).
3
Do you fancy
analog photography?
As part of my teaching at the University of Bonn, I built a box camera and now offer workshops with this camera. I am currently using it primarily with students at the University of Bonn in the media practice of photography. I would now like to start offering workshops with it in other contexts. Working with this camera makes the photographic process clear and tangible, as everything happens in one box: photographing, developing, and marveling.
Brief description:
We portray each other and make small collages and works of art from them.
6h workshop for 3 people, no previous knowledge, but some patience is required.
The workshop is suitable for adults.
Costs: 600.00 Euro (gross) incl. material
Experiments with the box camera have many mysterious steps
- set up the image upside down and mirrored
- focus
- estimate exposure time
- insert paper in the dark
- expose
- develop paper in the dark with one hand
- fix, water
- rejoice
4
Do you fancy
new
Perspectives?
With a collection of mirrors, we go to discover new corners.
Brief description:
We bring together perspectives that actually exist far away from each other. In our pictures, they become a new image of the connection between space and light.
I’ll bring my mirror collection and we’ll move around the houses.
This offer is suitable as group and teamwork. The best pictures are created when new things can be discovered from different angles. You can find examples here!
4h workshop for 8 people, no previous knowledge is necessary.
Costs: 600.00 Euro (gross) incl. material
