Challenges
From time to time, the group is set a challenge and the photographer is required to produce a set of photographs that demonstrates their perception of the task.
Current Challenge
A few of us went to see an exhibition by Gilbert Garcin in London earlier this year. It really was both inspiring and unusual. Garcin took up photography aged 65 when he retired! His approach is to take self portraits, cut them out literally and create scenes that are often comical or absurd with him in them in which he explores the human condition. He does this by having a box with sand in and sometimes objects and projects the background with a slide and then places his cut out self in the scene and photographs it - a very low tech style. His photos are all titled and the title is part of the intrigue. The challenge is this - create a Garcin-esque photo and bring it to the Ealing LIP photography meeting on Tues February 3. It needs to be printed black and white and titled. The photo should in some way explore the human condition.
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Have a look at garcin's work here to see samples of his work to spark your imagination (click on one of the years and scroll through).
Past Challenges
- Trafalgar Square Challenge 08. Ealing extended an invitation to the Queens Park, Enfield, Greenwich, Shoreditch groups to join them for their first photo challenge of 2008. The challenge was to transpose a poem by William Henry Davies and produce a panel of 3 photographs depecting their individual perception of it. We have no time to stand and stare.
- Bermondsey Challenge 07. The group had to contemplate a Louis Sullivan quote and produce a panel of 3, 5 or 7 architectural photographs, each one having a link with the other. That form ever follows function. This is the law.