Date Thursday 02 May 2024
Overview
Most artworks will be encountered through photography. In the globally connected world we live in, anyone could discover an artist or artwork through an image that may lead to changing the course of their career. Equally important as this is having a strong visual archive of practice. Imagine it comes to a retrospective and there is no reference image on how a work is to be presented; or a work is temporary, such as performance, and the only evidence that it happened is the documentation that becomes the legacy of that work. In this workshop you will learn not just technical information on photographing artworks but the craft of documentation and arts conservation. We will go through the basic and advanced use of a camera (applicable to a phone camera too if thats all you have access to!), artwork placement, lighting, composition, sequencing, colour science, recommended gear and much more.
Reece Straw is a Photographer & Filmmaker specialising across the Fine Arts in documentary, art film production & artwork and exhibition documentation and conservation. Since 2016, Reece has worked with high-profile galleries and institutions such as Tate, The National Gallery, Turner Contemporary, Baltic and Stephen Friedman Gallery
We'll be meeting outside the Tate Britain entrance on Atterbury Street at 9.50am so please be on time!