Mariusz Forecki (PL)
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MasterClass lead by
Mariusz Forecki (PL)
Kaunas, September 6-8, 2013
KAUNAS PHOTO invites to a three-day meeting with Mariusz Forecki, who will share his experience about how to be aside from the “central event” and still make a photographic statement about the situation.
Participants of this workshop will have an opportunity to spend three days working under guidance of one of the best photojournalists in Poland, improving their skills and strategies of documentary photography.
The leader of the MasterClass will help understand how to touch the base of the story, without being at the epicentre of it. The participants of the workshop will choose a theme and develop it and adapt the most suitable form for the visual story.
The Polish photographer equally perfectly mastering the classical reportage, the slow documentary image will share his experience on how to make emphasis on “unimportant” things that in photography acquire documentary value and become imprints or signs of time. Mariusz Forecki will share his expertise of a leader of a photographic agency, paying a great deal of attention to discussing individual images and the process of editing of the stories the participants, in order that the stories can radiate the most visual effect.
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I picture Poland since the mid-1980s. The events and situations that I captured are personal. They do not feature the great political figures nor spectacular events. Looking from a more global perspective these events even look insignificant. But looking from the perspective of the heroes of these photographs, the images reflect their lives. The gatherings of people show the transitions, which we witness on the daily basis. Or maybe it is just me…
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Mariusz Forecki
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Mariusz Forecki (b. 1962) lives and works in Poznan. He is a graduate of the Institute of Creative
Photography at the Silesian University in Opava (Czech Republic). He is fond of social photography and makes documents of changes occurring in Poland in 1989-2009. He accomplished a large number of photographic projects e.g. “New religions in Poland – Krishna believers”, “New, wonderful world”, “Colours of power”, “Beyond paradise”, “Crumbs of the day”, “BlueBox”.
He often photographed in the areas of former USSR: Armenia, Belarus, Chechnya, Dagestan, Lithuania, Ukraine. He is a laureate of the Medal of Young Art for pictures concerning social matters. For his photos brought awards in different contests. Mariusz Forecki won multiple prizes at the Polish Press Photography Contest and that of the Newsweek Magazine for the best newspaper report. He photographs for top-of-the-line Polish magazines. ZPAF (Association of Polish Art Photographers) rewarded him for his work in 2004. He also works for the TAMTAM Photographic Agency and is a publisher of the online magazine called www.5shotsmagazine.com
Publications:
Niezłomna Czeczenia (Unbeatable Chechnya) – 1997, I LOVE POLAND – 2009, Kolekcja Wrzesińska (Wrzesińska collection) – 2011, W pracy (At work) – 2012
more: www.forecki.pl
blog: http://smoczehistorie.blogspot.com/
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Requirements for MasterClass Participants
The group will consist of up to 12 photographers. This MasterClass is aimed at advanced amature photographers, students and professional photographers. The organisers kindly ask the participants to commit themselves for serious work.
Students and advanced amature photographers are asked along with the application form, to send a sample series of their work for approval.
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Mariusz Forecki
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Techninis pasirengimas dirbtuvėms
We hope that every participant will have his or her digital camera, a portfolio of their earlier work, laptop computer.
Working language of the MasterClass is ENGLISH, but Lithuanian and Polish languages will be in use.
Therefore, native speakers of Lithuanian, Polish and are welcome.
Registration
The deadline for sending applications is September 4, 2013, yet we ask to resister as soon as possible.
The price: 500 LT / 145 EUR. The price does not include travel, accommodation and other participant-side costs.
After getting the approval of acceptance, the participants mus pay the full amount (145 EUR) or the non-refundable deposite of 50 EUR (173 LT), which later will be deduced from the total amount of cost, if payment divided into two parts.
Please download the application form, complete it and send us to festival@light.lt
Info at this very email address 🙂
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