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Recent international visitors to Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin
Carleton College (Northfield, Minnesota) and a 3-day workshop with Saul Robbins, ICP (International Center of Photography, New York, New York)
On May 12th, 2011 the Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin welcomed a group of students from Carlteon College. After a short presentation of the school and its facilities, lecturer Thomas Anschütz gave a presentation about his career in the arts. It was very interesting even for the students of Neue Schule für Fotografie to learn that Thomas Anschütz, lecturer of digital photography at our school, first studied painting at the Hochschule für bildende Künste, in Hamburg and began his career as a photorealistic painter. Anschütz started to pursue the field of photography during and after his studies of painting.
Thomas Anschütz
In June 2011, Saul Robbins, Adjunct Professor at ICP, presented his workshop „About Place“ to 14 graduate students of Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin. After a short introduction he proposed an exercise to increase the students‘ sensitivity to unexpected situations and their awareness towards the right moment for making incisive images. First Robbins separated the students into pairs, and took them to the park across from Neue Schule. There he asked one of them to cover their eyes and to make a photograph whenever they felt a sensation that inspired them to capture it...sounds, smell, sensations of their body and hair, etc. Followed by their partners each student photographed for 20 minutes in the park, while the partner recorded the words that came to the miond each time they stopped and were motivated to photograph.
Photos: Saul Robbins
Robbins then took them to Alexanderplatz to resume the exercise, instructiong them to note the differences between each place and again the situations that stimulated each photographic response.
Photos: Saul Robbins
The next day, in critique, student‘s results were discussed, focusing on their sensations of each place, the words they choose to describe theses sensations, and the distinctions between what we feel, what we perceive with covered eyes and what the camera is capable of recording in the same moment. The remainder of the workshop critique focuses on each student‘s work and thesis.
Photos: Saul Robbins
Carleton College (Northfield, Minnesota) and a 3-day workshop with Saul Robbins, ICP (International Center of Photography, New York, New York)
On May 12th, 2011 the Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin welcomed a group of students from Carlteon College. After a short presentation of the school and its facilities, lecturer Thomas Anschütz gave a presentation about his career in the arts. It was very interesting even for the students of Neue Schule für Fotografie to learn that Thomas Anschütz, lecturer of digital photography at our school, first studied painting at the Hochschule für bildende Künste, in Hamburg and began his career as a photorealistic painter. Anschütz started to pursue the field of photography during and after his studies of painting.
Thomas Anschütz
In June 2011, Saul Robbins, Adjunct Professor at ICP, presented his workshop „About Place“ to 14 graduate students of Neue Schule für Fotografie Berlin. After a short introduction he proposed an exercise to increase the students‘ sensitivity to unexpected situations and their awareness towards the right moment for making incisive images. First Robbins separated the students into pairs, and took them to the park across from Neue Schule. There he asked one of them to cover their eyes and to make a photograph whenever they felt a sensation that inspired them to capture it...sounds, smell, sensations of their body and hair, etc. Followed by their partners each student photographed for 20 minutes in the park, while the partner recorded the words that came to the miond each time they stopped and were motivated to photograph.
Photos: Saul Robbins
Robbins then took them to Alexanderplatz to resume the exercise, instructiong them to note the differences between each place and again the situations that stimulated each photographic response.
Photos: Saul Robbins
The next day, in critique, student‘s results were discussed, focusing on their sensations of each place, the words they choose to describe theses sensations, and the distinctions between what we feel, what we perceive with covered eyes and what the camera is capable of recording in the same moment. The remainder of the workshop critique focuses on each student‘s work and thesis.
Photos: Saul Robbins