TalkSeePhotography Photography Workshop

TalkSeePhotography’s March session sees photographers Alicia Bruce and Robin Gillanders host a conversational presentation on the photographic portrait. Bruce was a student of Gillander’s at Edinburgh Napier University and both have since continued to engage in the discourse around each other’s work in progress. The conversation will give an insight into the decision-making process prior to making a portrait, and the the ongoing dialogue between the two photographers.

Robin Gillanders is an Edinburgh based photographic artist. He worked commercially from a studio in central Edinburgh before he began teaching photography at Edinburgh Napier University where he later became a Reader, before leaving teaching in 2012. He has exhibited in Scotland and internationally in France, Spain, Poland, Norway and USA and has featured in several group publications as well as having authored four solo books with the National Galleries of Scotland, Birlinn and David & Charles. Gillanders works primarily, but not exclusively, in black and white.

Alicia Bruce studied at Edinburgh’s Napier University, graduating in 2006. Since then her work has focused on the collaborative nature of portraiture and the relationship between the photographer and the sitter. Her practice explores environmental politics of space, territories and how this impacts on our heritage. Her most recent projects have involved communities, such as Menie, the Scottish community whose homes and environment were threatened by the infamous construction of Trump International Golf Course in Aberdeenshire. Alongside her arts practice photographer she teaches photography at City of Glasgow College. She has held several artists in residencies and recent has been widely exhibited.