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Impressions of Manchester Photography Workshop
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27th November, 2024
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£309.00
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Our Impressions of Manchester photography workshop will take place in November with Bill Ward.
100 yards from one of the busiest shopping streets in Europe, and beneath the watchful gaze of the ever-present Beetham Tower (for many years the tallest building in the UK outside of London), lies the peaceful sanctuary of the Castlefield Basin.
This is the cradle of the Industrial Revolution. The Bridgewater Canal, the world’s first industrial canal, locks horns with the Rochdale Canal, in a glorious timeless basin in the centre of the world’s very first industrial city, Manchester. The textile trade landed big here, and this is the epicentre of it. Its legacy is everywhere: there are viaducts, bridges, warehouses all across the piece, as well as the ever-present canals, locks, towpaths and canal boats.
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And it’s not just about the history: surrounding this extraordinary basin are a brand-new collection of tall, sleek and impossibly shiny office blocks, flats, hotels and bars, which have sprung up like mushrooms over the last 2 decades, as the city starts to forge a new identity for itself for the future. Juxtaposition is everywhere: old vs new, past vs present, curves vs lines, matt vs gloss, and water, water, water. Everywhere. Reflections are ever present.
This is a wonderfully fertile visual playground, and a hugely rewarding place to spend time with a camera.
And it’s a place your guide and tutor for the day, Bill Ward, knows intimately. He spent 3 1/2 years here filming literally just down the road on Coronation Street and used this very route as his daily walk to work: there is history here, and plenty of humanity, but also, if you choose to seek it out, silence and solitude.
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Our workshop will concentrate on developing our skills in what are often referred to as “Creative Photography” techniques, in particular Intentional Camera Movement (ICM) and In Camera Multiple Exposures, as well as Abstract. Your guide for the day, Bill, has been a leading practitioner of these for well over a decade, and is a regular writer/contributor for the worldwide ICM Photography Magazine. He’s particularly evangelical about their ability to get right under the skin of a place, a time, a feeling, and reveal their very essence.
An actor by training, Bill is well versed in the creative process, the benefits of working with an open mind, the joy of improvising and going with what you’re given. He’s particularly interested in working on the fly: staying in the moment, seeing what comes up on the back of the camera, and using it as a springboard for an unknown destination.
The workshop will run from 10am to 5pm.
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Included
Tuition from Bill Ward
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Excluded
Travel to meeting point
Meals
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