This workshop is led and inspired by local photographer Marzena Wasikowska. In this hands-on experience, you’ll join Marzena to explore her practice documenting Canberra as a place defined by its people.

The program will kick off with a curatorial tour of Seeing Canberra, and Marzena will share her approach to recording life in the city through intimate portraits of family and friends. Mentored by Marzena, you’ll create your own body of work inspired by her perspective, including experimenting with different portraiture techniques, building studio and natural lighting skills and developing a portfolio of images inspired by the idea of Canberra as a City of People.

PhotoAccess Workshop Series: Canberra Re-Seen

How do you see Canberra? Through its people, buildings or suburban landscapes? Would you like to develop your own unique photographic vision of our city?

Join CMAG and PhotoAccess for a unique photography workshop program developing your unique vision of our city. Presented in conjunction with CMAG’s current Seeing Canberra exhibition, this series of three workshops invites you to explore the diverse ways in which some of the ACT’s leading photographers – Marzena Wasikowska, Ted Richards and Ian North –  have seen and documented life in Canberra.

Inspired by these landmark photographers, you’ll have the opportunity to learn more about each of their practices, investigate CMAG’s collections of their works, and be guided to produce your own portfolio inspired by the artists’ approaches to understanding Canberra. At the conclusion of the workshop series, you’ll be invited to contribute some of your images to a culminating Canberra Re-Seen exhibition. This will be on display in the PhotoAccess Huw Davies Gallery from 10 June – 10 July 2021 and featured in the PhotoAccess Online Gallery.

Join one workshop or enjoy an extended photography experience by enrolling in all three.

Click here to learn more about the Canberra Re-seen workshops.

Image:
Marzena Wasikowska
Jess, Danny and Mia, 2010
Inkjet print on paper 
CMAG Collection, purchased 2015