{"id":2591,"date":"2023-03-01T07:09:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T07:09:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/?p=2591"},"modified":"2023-03-01T13:03:09","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T13:03:09","slug":"the-camera-as-a-great-passport-into-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ginko.org.uk\/index.php\/2023\/03\/01\/the-camera-as-a-great-passport-into-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Camera as a Great Passport into Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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the lives of others \/\/ entwined with our everydays \/\/ our togetherness<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
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Join me on a Ginko Photowalk for Just \u00a320 <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

(Discounted through a group booking by the RPS Travel Group)<\/em><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

During a Ginko Photowalk Workshops we go beyond Street Photography to discover new ways of making photography and engaging with people. <\/h3>\n\n\n\n

If you would like to join me on a workshop scroll to the bottom of the this post where I talk about workshops in May with the RPS Travel Group and include links to book.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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February report on a Ginko Trip to Bristol, The RPS, Parr Foundation and Devizes<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Recently, I made a trip to Bristol to assess licentiate submissions for the Royal Photographic Society, and the day before I met up with Peter and Paul, a couple of RPS members that I have been working with and helping them with their potential photobook submissions. Vicecca Koh and Richard Hall, a couple of my colleages on the Licentiate Assessor Team joined us too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Parr Foundation<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

I took them to the Martin parr Academy, who kindly opened for me on the Tuesday, when normally that is one of their closed days. We saw Martin Parr’s current exhibition which is his work, ‘A Year in the Life of Chew Stoke Village’. We spoke about the content of this incredible body of work, and how Martin visualised the lifes and traditions of English Village Life, re-performed every year. Through his images we develop a sense of place and what life is like for those who engage with the same events each year. It is like true life theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n

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I showed them my Park Hill Project Photobook and The Stonemason Book which Martin has in the collection, as well as many others including Robert Frank\u2019s book London\/Wales. Robert Frank is, of course, best known for his book \u2018The Americans\u2019 and if you know his work in that book, even without looking at the author\u2019s name on London\/Wales you would see Frank in the work. Peter really enjoyed London\/Wales because he could identify with it, he saw images that reminded himself of his life in London when he was a boy. I think this is one of the things about photography, it is often a passport to past, future, and other worlds that we are not in when we are looking at a photograph.<\/p>\n\n\n

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