TalkSeePhotography Photography Workshop

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.

Our long-term goal is to create a scene for both national and international photography but we feel it is crucial to form a local discussion platform by reaching out to the photography (interested and active) community in Glasgow. We aim 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.

TalkSeePhotography’s December session will see Jenny Wicks and The Hasselblad New Photography prize winner Linda Varoma.

Linda Maria Varoma will present her latest series The Singing Neighbour, which celebrates and documents old Estonian singing traditions. Her images settle between urban and rural, portraits and landscapes, and question the problem of labelling, historical rightfulness, political objectivity and what is allowed to be shown, as well as who decides what the truth is and who bears the consequences. Linda's talk will also reflect on the practical side of working as an artist and the process and importance of accurate research, relating to being in the middle of a new work right here in Scotland. Where do ideas come from and how do you work around them in order to make photographs and get your message across?

Jenny Wicks' photographic practice explores critical perspectives on issues surrounding the social hierarchies & classification of human nature - how much of who we are is determined by the communities in which we live. Her systematic manner connects in a sociological and philosophical sense but also in photographic terms. Wicks’ practice has developed to include audio and video in the creation of site-specific installations. In this talk she will present three projects (They are Us, All that I Am and Working Spaces Punishing, Spaces, Root Ginger) that explore aspects of using a collaborative documentary realism and scientific aesthetics, as well as in an autobiographical narrative.