What’s it all about?
Why the hype about film photography? Learn how to use film photography to slow it up and engage in a more physical photography experience. The lack of immediacy afforded in film photography will push you into being more patient, more mindful and the process of creating a photograph will become more satisfying. Film will take you right back to making (not taking) photographs.
What will we cover?
During this class we will be going back to basics. We will briefly visit film types, camera formats, shutter speed, aperture, metering, lighting, composition. Mostly though, we’ll be engaging with our film cameras to practice this stuff to make photographs using film.
Who will be teaching?
Aliki Smith is a fine art photographer based in Melbourne, Australia. Over the last few years Aliki’s work has been featured in numerous physical spaces, various publications and online journals. She is also the founder of She Shoots Film – an online publication that features and celebrates film photography by women. Aliki combines a mastery of the technical with an innovative eye to capture the ephemeral grace and simplicity of life on film. She is an evocative storyteller; giving the viewer just enough in one photograph to feel as if they know – or want to know – the whole story.
At once both dreamy and realistic, her work has a tangible, sensual quality to it that makes the viewer feel as if they might be seeing bits of another reality that exists just behind closed eyes. Her photographs find the perfection in the forgotten moments; the beauty of the in-between and often unnoticed.
Visit her website Morning With You or an Interview between film photographer Kevin Lim and Aliki here.