23/09/2025
Jean-Christian Bourcart
Athens
01-05 November
Deadline 15 October
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Jean-Christian Bourcart will be conducting this 5-day workshop in Athens. The theme of the workshop is based on his eclectic photographic engagement in revealing secret worlds, places that had been rejected outright or were too fleeting to capture attention. Photography is a tool to interrogate presence/absence in the world. It is essential for me to question my practices and recognize the subjectivity of my perspective, as well as the spectacular aspect of the media in which I participate. I am looking for forms of narration that are more personal, interactive, and inclusive, while seeking an ever fragile equilibrium among poetic, psychological, and political perspectives. Images––as well as sounds and ideas––are unstable objects that multiply and fracture, are transformed and recombined in the immense kaleidoscope we call reality. I am looking for projects that can be expressed in different networks– journalism, cinema, the Web, art galleries, books - and that participate in the new fluidity and overall decompartmentalization of forms of representation. I photograph so that I have an excuse for looking. I photograph to grasp what is otherwise inaccessible.
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