TalkSeePhotography Observations of a Photographer

TalkSeePhotography is a monthly photography workshop, organised for and by artists working with still imagery in Glasgow. The workshop aims to be a forum for sharing, discussing and looking at photography, with a focus centred on visual presentations by photographers and thinkers, followed by an open discussion.

For September's workshop, Danielle Heath will be exploring changing directions in photography by examining the incompatibility between the old photographic narrative and the changing modern world to consider whether the new theory of expanded photography meets these challenges. By using her experience as a photographer she will reflect on difficulties that she has encountered through a range of themes. These will include: the audience’s growing sophistication in reading the semiotics of images, the moral responsibility of the photographer, the death of the genius, the inability for photography to be a representational agent, the growing tendency to cross different art media and genres and the increase in mass production of images.

The long-term goal of these workshops is to create a scene for both national and international photography but it is crucial to form a local discussion platform by reaching out to the photography (interested and active) community in Glasgow. TalkSeePhotography aims to do so by setting up events that can as a greenhouse where photographers and thinkers around photography may present and share their work on the basis of a mutual discussion with the participating audience.