TalkSeePhotography

The TalkSeePhotography September event will host participants from the Edinburgh based Feis Projects. Fèis is a new group of independent artists and curators who plan to organise exhibitions, events, commissions, publications and research projects across Scotland.

At the event Alastair Cook, Alan McCredie, Jonathan Jouty, Albie Clark and Susanne Ramsenthaler will present and discuss a series of exhibitions, seminars, and other photography and film based projects they are planning to take place and tour around Scotland during the course of 2015. The group will also share some of their individual work and in discussion we will be able to draw parallels between the individual creations and the importance of organisational artist collaborations.

The event is the first in a series of talks by Scottish individuals and groups that are specifically designed to pay attention to the functions of collaborative efforts, networks and support structures. These national events will be interspersed with a series of international programs, with talks and workshops by Scandinavian professionals, which will be run into 2015.

Alastair Cook is artist in residence for the Heritage Lottery-supported Absent Voices (Document Britain). Alan McCredie is the author of forthcoming photographic essay One Hundred Weeks of Scotland (Luath Press). Jonathan Jouty is one of the funders of Document Britain, and former darkroom specialist at the University of St Andrews. Albie Clark is founder of The Photographer's Collective and is also a freelance photographer. Susanne Ramsenthaler is a widely exhibited visual artist from Edinburgh.

In conjunction with the talk, Document Britain will make portfolio reviews: time, location and information on applying to take part will be announced on the TSP Facebook site.