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Workshop on photographing landscape with Bernard Plossu

Plossu is particularly fascinated by the Sierra de Guara in the province of Huesca. His work involves going on walks that last several days to take photographs that reflect his interpretation of the territory. The aim of the project is to compile a photographic archive of approximately 250 images.

Plossu (Vietnam, 1945) discovered at an early age that he could only capture the geographical scale in small photographs. His work reveals a penetrating gaze, which, like a person walking, is always in movement. Plossu won the National Photography Prize in 1988, and a retrospective of his work was held at the Pompidou Centre in Paris the same year.

Plossu is a travelling photographer par excellence. For decades his nomadic spirit has driven him to wander the planet with an open spirit and an attentive eye. As Francesco Careri writes in El andar como práctica estética: ‘We could now construct a history of walking as a form of human intervention that contains the symbolic meanings of a fundamental creative act: wandering as the architecture of landscape, with landscape understood as the act of symbolic transformation – and not only physical transformation – of anthropic space.

Programme

Friday

8:00 p.m. Reception
9:00 p.m. Dinner
10:00 p.m. Plossu: projection of photographs and introduction to the workshop

Saturday

9:00 a.m. Full-day photography excursion: walks around Bara and the surrounding area
9:00 p.m. Dinner
10:00 p.m. Photography discussion and viewing of portfolios

Sunday

9:00 a.m. Walks on the sierra
2:30 p.m. Lunch and farewell

October

The programme will be completed with a follow-up stage when Bernard Plossu will return to Huesca. In this session the images captured during the workshop will be viewed and discussed.

More information

All places for this workshop have now been filled. In view of the enthusiastic response, the workshop may be repeated in 2009.

·         Complete information on the workshop – News section of the CDAN web site (February 2008)

Source: texts – CDAN; photographs, Bernard Plossu.

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