Mark Power
Program in Berlin
January-September 2025
MARK POWER
Program in Berlin
January-September 2025
Tutor: Mark Power
9 month program 202514 participants
2600 euros (can be paid with instalements)
To apply send 10-15 images and/or a website to:
Michael Grieve at info@hamburgwerkstattfotografie.com
About the program
Werkstatt Fotografie is offering a unique program in Berlin with British documentary photographer, Mark Power. The program is designed to help participant photographers initiate long term documentary projects and navigate them in the best possible direction over a 9 month period. This guidance will identify the necessary methodologies to build a documentary project; be they conceptual, staged, fictional, experimental and abstract. The endeavour is to find the most appropriate visual strategies to work and enhance the meanings and concerns of the subject matter.
In-between the physical workshops there will be individual on-line sessions with Mark Power
Workshop 1: January 24-27
Workshop 2: May 16-19
Workshop 3: September 5-8
About the artist
Mark Power's work has been shown in numerous galleries and museums across the world, and is to be found in several important collections, both public and private. However, Power considers himself, primarily, as a book maker, and to date he has published fifteen: The Shipping Forecast (1996), a poetic response to the esoteric language of daily maritime weather reports; Superstructure (2000), a documentation of the construction of London's Millennium Dome; The Treasury Project (2002), about the restoration of a nineteenth-century historical monument: 26 Different Endings (2007), which depicts those landscapes unlucky enough to fall just off the edge of the London A-Z, a map which could be said to define the boundaries of the British capital; The Sound of Two Songs (2010), the culmination of his five year project set in contemporary Poland following its accession to the European Union; Mass (2013), an investigation into the power and wealth of the Polish Catholic church; Die Mauer ist Weg! (2014), about chance and choice when confronted, accidentally, with a major news event - in this case the fall of the Berlin Wall; Destroying the Laboratory for the Sake of the Experiment (2016), a collaboration with the poet Daniel Cockrill about pre-Brexit England; Icebreaker (2018) which documents two Finnish ships operating in the Bay of Bothnia; Terre a l’Amende (2021), the result of an artist-in-residency in the Channel Island of Guernsey, and the five-book, work-in-progress series, Good Morning, America, Volumes I (2018), II (2019), III (2020) and IV (2023). A revised and much-expanded version of his first book, The Shipping Forecast was published in 2022.
Power taught at the University of Brighton from 1992 until 2017, first as a Senior Lecturer, then as the Professor of Photography. He joined Magnum as a nominee in 2002, becoming a full member in 2007. He lives in Brighton, on the south coast of England, with his wife Jo and their dog Kodak
MARK POWER
Workshop in Hamburg
04-08 April 2024
Tutor: Mark Power
Location: HWF, Bernhard-Nocht-Strasse 8, 20359 Hamburg St Pauli
14 participants
Early 800 euros deadline 31 January / Normal 900 euros deadline 29 February
To apply send 10-15 images and/or a website to:
Michael Grieve at info@hamburgwerkstattfotografie.com
About the workshop
British photographer, Mark Power, will conduct a workshop in Hamburg. This promises to be a special opportunity for those who wish to progress their photographic practice. This is a practical workshop and over the duration of the 5-days, participants will be expected to rethink the topography of the urban terrain and photograph Hamburg from a more conceptual, yet documentary perspective. Various strategies will be employed to map out the city, designed for photographers to engage both experientially and experimentally. Editing, sequencing of photographs will be a constant issue throughout the workshop. On the final evening each participant will make a presentation of the work produced during the workshop. Mark Power will also be in conversation with Michael Grieve about his career as a photographer. This will be open to a public audience at the HWF Galerie.
Workshop structure: Day 1. Mark Power will conduct a presentation and describe his working methodologies with some of his notable projects. Participants will each make a 20-30 minute presentation as an introduction to Mark and the group. Potential project ideas for the workshop will be discussed.
Day 2. Project ideas will be discussed in greater detail and participants will begin to photograph.
Day 3. The results of day 2 will be presented by each participant and critiqued as a group discussion, and then participants will continue shooting.
Day 4. A repeat of day 3, but with a greater emphasis on editing and sequencing. One to one tutorials.
Day 5. Editing, sequencing the work produced and ready for a presentation in the evening.
About the artist
Mark Power's work has been shown in numerous galleries and museums across the world, and is to be found in several important collections, both public and private. However, Power considers himself, primarily, as a book maker, and to date he has published fifteen: The Shipping Forecast (1996), a poetic response to the esoteric language of daily maritime weather reports; Superstructure (2000), a documentation of the construction of London's Millennium Dome; The Treasury Project (2002), about the restoration of a nineteenth-century historical monument: 26 Different Endings (2007), which depicts those landscapes unlucky enough to fall just off the edge of the London A-Z, a map which could be said to define the boundaries of the British capital; The Sound of Two Songs (2010), the culmination of his five year project set in contemporary Poland following its accession to the European Union; Mass (2013), an investigation into the power and wealth of the Polish Catholic church; Die Mauer ist Weg! (2014), about chance and choice when confronted, accidentally, with a major news event - in this case the fall of the Berlin Wall; Destroying the Laboratory for the Sake of the Experiment (2016), a collaboration with the poet Daniel Cockrill about pre-Brexit England; Icebreaker (2018) which documents two Finnish ships operating in the Bay of Bothnia; Terre a l’Amende (2021), the result of an artist-in-residency in the Channel Island of Guernsey, and the five-book, work-in-progress series, Good Morning, America, Volumes I (2018), II (2019), III (2020) and IV (2023). A revised and much-expanded version of his first book, The Shipping Forecast was published in 2022.
Power taught at the University of Brighton from 1992 until 2017, first as a Senior Lecturer, then as the Professor of Photography. He joined Magnum as a nominee in 2002, becoming a full member in 2007. He lives in Brighton, on the south coast of England, with his wife Jo and their dog Kodak
Location: HWF, Bernhard-Nocht-Strasse 8, 20359 Hamburg St Pauli
12 participants
Early 800 euros deadline 31 January / Normal 900 euros deadline 29 February
To apply send 10-15 images and/or a website to:
Michael Grieve at info@hamburgwerkstattfotografie.com
THE INVISIBLE SUBJECT
Workshop in Berlin
Date to be announced / 2024
Tutor: Michael Grieve
Michael Grieve is a photographer, director of ArtFotoMode, and Hamburg/Berlin Werkstatt Fotografie. In 1997 he graduated with an MA in Photographic Studies from the University of Westminster and then proceeded to work as a photojournalist and portrait photographer for publications internationally. He was the deputy editor of 1000 Words Contemporary Photography Magazine and a writer for the British Journal of Photography. Since 2011 he has been a senior lecturer at Nottingham Trent University in the UK, and a lecturer at the Akademia Fotografie in Poland, the University of Art and Design in Berlin, and Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin. He is the director of HWF and BWF, a space for education/exhibitions/events in Hamburg and Berlin. He is currently working on Procession, a project documenting the space between Athens and Elifsina in Greece.
Location: BWF Atelier, Wilhelmstrasse 7, 10963 Berlin
10 participants
300 euros
To apply send 10-15 images and/or a website to:
Michael Grieve at info@hamburgwerkstattfotografie.com
URBAN EXOTICISM
Workshop in Narva, Estonia
Date to be announced / 2024
Tutor: Michael Grieve
Narva Arts Residency
Urban Exoticism 3 is a photography workshop conducted by Michael Grieve, based on the theme 'urban exoticsm‘, a term coined by the Greek art historian, Alia Tsagkari, as an alternative concept to experience and understand creatively the urban environment. This 4-day experience endeavours to help participating photographers find new ways of understanding the urban environment and spatial relations towards the realisation of subjective documentary projects that attempt to go beyond prevailing mechanized modes of thought.
The first workshop in 2021 brought 12 photographers to Athens. With a heightened awareness of strange juxtapositions, layering and hidden places that build up the uncanny fabric of the city, Urban Exoticism 3 is an exploration of Narva. Participants will re-map and find visual strategies to interpret their new experience of the city. From a dérive perspective, that is a mode of experimental behaviour linked to the conditions of urban society: a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances. It is an unplanned journey through a landscape, usually urban, in which participants drop their everyday relations and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there. The emphasis of these series of Urban Exoticism workshops is an experiential one, to engage in the process of making photographic work with a conceptual edge.
The workshop requires speed and quick thinking. It is about doing and working hard. Expect to be exhausted and satisfied by the end!
'Urban Exoticism is an expression that circumscribes a perception of the metropolitan space that values fragments, unexpected juxtapositions and elements obscured by everyday experience. Revealing the mystery beneath the apparently banal surfaces of the modern city, it provokes the emergence of extraordinary realities drawn from the realms of the exotic, the erotic and the unconscious.‘
Alia Tsagkari, Athens, 2021Michael Grieve is a photographer, director of ArtFotoMode, and Hamburg/Berlin Werkstatt Fotografie. In 1997 he graduated with an MA in Photographic Studies from the University of Westminster and then proceeded to work as a photojournalist and portrait photographer for publications internationally. He was the deputy editor of 1000 Words Contemporary Photography Magazine and a writer for the British Journal of Photography. Since 2011 he has been a senior lecturer at Nottingham Trent University in the UK, and a lecturer at the Akademia Fotografie in Poland, the University of Art and Design in Berlin, and Ostkreuzschule für Fotografie in Berlin. He is the director of HWF and BWF, a space for education/exhibitions/events in Hamburg and Berlin. He is currently working on Procession, a project documenting the space between Athens and Elifsina in Greece.
Location: Narva Arts Residency, Narva, Estonia
10 participants
600 euros
To apply send 10-15 images and/or a website to:
Michael Grieve at info@hamburgwerkstattfotografie.com