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Available Courses

• What does the term genuine and original mean in relation to the digital photographic image?

  >> What does the term genuine and original mean in relation to the digital photographic image?
  
  Begins on 17 February and ends on the 2 of March
  
  This conversation will look at the relationship between the digital and the photographic image.
  The image captured by a digital camera is not an image at all; it is a set of data. The image does not exist until the event of visualization, such as a monitor or print.
  
  Discussion leader: Simon Jones (UK)
• What do portraits reveal?

  2 April till 16 April, 2012
  What do portraits reveal?
  Lydia Panas (USA)
  
  This forum is designed to investigate the nature of portraiture and help us understand what it takes to make a powerful portrait, one that engages on a deeper level. The most meaningful work comes from finding your own voice. Discussion will involve how to connect with our own questions to make portraits that matter to you and ultimately, to others as well.
  
• Future Forum Discussions

  TBA
  Dina Goldstein (Canada)
  
  

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• Past Forum Discussions

  
  

  Topic and Moderator (Most Recent First) Photo Education in an Online Environment Patrick Keough, USA Is contemporary art performative? Francesca Fini, Rome, Italy

  Moments of Decision or Decisive Moments Rui Cepeda, UK in Collaboration with Viewfinder Gallery, London

  The End of the Photographic Print: The Birth of the Image Roberto Muffoletto, Netherlands in Collaboration with Viewfinder Gallery, London

  Dinosaur Bones: the End (and Ends) of Photo Criticism A. D. Coleman, USA in Collaboration with Viewfinder Gallery, London