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2017 CLPA NEWS #03 MEMBERS CONTRIBUTIONS ••• FESTIVALS & BIENNALES IN THIS ISSUE ••• FEATURED MEMBER: BEHAN TOURÉ See on page 4. CiC update © Nadia Mounier. CONTRIBUTORS: CLPA members EDITORS: John Fleetwood & Amy Daniels, Photo: GUEST EDITOR: Uche Okpa-Iroha, The Nlele DESIGN: Karien van der Westhuizen (the earth is round) TRANSLATION:CLPA Patricia NEWS Yumba 2017#03 (House of 1 Nzinga) CLPA NEWS 2017#03 CONTRIBUTORS Cairo, Egypt Contemporary Image Collective (CiC) Dakar, Senegal National Art School (ENA) Bamako, Mali Espace Partage Photo (EPP) Yamarou-Photo Lagos, Nigeria The Nlele Johannesburg, South Africa MEMBERS PHOTO: NON-MEMBERS Market Photo Workshop Guest Editor Uche Okpa-Iroha, The Nlele CLPA News is an internal newsletter made up from contributions of the CLPA members. The Editors hold no responsibility or liability for the accuracy of the provided content. CLPA NEWS 2017#03 2 LEARNING AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES Yamarou-Photo National School of Arts (ENA) Most recent activities Most recent activities Over the past six months Yamarou-Photo’s training has focussed on the history of African photography and research on various African photographers. The course further looked at pinhole Child protection community agents from photography and processing techniques, including Photoshop (above left). “Around the book” (above right) is a session where students gather around a book and each giving their point of view. ChildFund Senegal trained in Photography Students also made a few visits to see exhibitions in town. The National School of Arts took part in a 6-day training-of-trainers programme in Oct 2017. In partnership with the Senegalese Ministry of Culture, the ENA assisted the ChildFund organisation to increase the quality of visual content for donors, sponsors and stakeholders – Planned activities including visual representation of child protection, childhood, savings loan associations etc. In November 2017, the students will meet with the renowned Françoise Huguier and prepare for an The workshop consisted of fifteen community representatives who were trained as trainers on upcoming exhibition. how to ethically represent deprived, excluded and vulnerable children through institutional and documentary photography. The means of the workshop was based on case practices through child programmes in Mbour, The Nlele (Thies region) which looked at methods to create awareness for community agents on how to improve the lives of children and their opportunity to become young leaders in their Planned activities communities. In partnership with the World Press Photo, the Nlele will implement an online workshop “Talking Behan Touré was selected as mentor by the Ministry to lead the workshop with the aim to deliver Pictures”. The workshop will be overseen by Juliette Garms (World Press Photo), Jonathan Worth (World academic expertise to strengthen local partners and sponsorship agents for the ChildFund Press Photo) and Uche Okpa-Iroha (The Nlele). The workshop is scheduled to begin in January 2018. Organisation photography and to implement the essential photography standards to the community representatives who would later be able to teach others. Other 2018 workshops will include Critical Text Writing, the development and implementation of photography projects, copyright etc. Learning & Teaching Activities continues >> CLPA NEWS 2017#03 3 LEARNING AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES CONTINUED Contemporary Image Collective (CiC) Planned activities Most recent activities CiC currently prepares a collaboration with the “Student’s Council”, a Cairo based art education initiative for students from public universities initiated by Studio Khana. The “Student’s Council” meets several times a week for various workshops and for each of the participants to develop their work. Throughout the year the group came to the CiC darkroom for an introduction to experimental darkroom techniques. From 15 Nov until early Dec 2017, CiC will present the works developed in the “Student’s Council”. In late Nov 2017, CiC will be co-hosting in a series of workshops, discussions and presentations on art education organised by the Cairo Working Group of the Another Roadmap for Art Education network. Through different gatherings the group hopes to trace how concepts and methodologies of art education travelled from one context to another and their relationship to different hegemonies. Espace Partage Photo (EPP) Most recent activities 2017 Biennale Street / Off Exhibition Project As part of the Bamako Biennale and local activation of the “Off”-event, JAW.Mali-EPP will direct a workshop in photography entitled: “BAMAKOTOPIA”. The theme, simulating the theme of the Bamako Biennale, “AFROTOPIA”, will take place 16-19 Nov 2017. Planned activities Besides resuming educational activities, CiC’s start of the season was marked by the opening JAW-Mali launches a new photo contest for a better participation of the Malian photographers of Alexandria based photographer and artist Nadia Mounier’s first solo exhibition. Over time Nadia in the Bamako Biennale and for the individual promotion of each artist, in partnership with the has participated in many educational programs at CiC, the latest was earlier this year when she was Bamako Biennale patrons. This contest aims to encourage the desire for research and creativity in part of a longer workshop that took place as part of the PhotoCairo festival. photography. © Nadia Mounier, She said: I swear I saw a light coming out of the side of my eyes, 2016/2017. In June 2017, the workshop “A Geography for Beaten Heroes” ended with a public reading and presentation of images and collages by the participants. The workshop was facilitated by Zeinab Magdy and combined personal writings with found photography from family archives, newspaper clips and other materials. The workshop was connected to other programs that took place at CiC during the same time to investigate representations of nationalism and everyday forms of resistance. Learning & Teaching Activities continues >> CLPA NEWS 2017#03 4 LEARNING AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES CONTINUED Market Photo Workshop Most recent activities Developing Landscapes Developing Landscapes presents a selection of work from alumni of the Market Photo Workshop’s Advanced Programme in Photography. The exhibition engages landscape as it is formed by politics, trauma and the post-1994 social and political imagination in South Africa. The selected photographs engage the South African landscape as a complex accumulation marked by Apartheid-era policies of segregation and forced removal, and post-1994 negotiations of belonging. The exhibition frames the complexity of “development” within the often-problematic 2017 Market Photo Workshop Alumnus Award logic of post-1994 rural and urban land development policies in South Africa, as well as the The Alumnus Award exhibition is installed at the Joburg Art Fair. Dahlia Maubane is the winner of development of new conceptual positions to landscape that young South Africans are negotiating the inaugural Market Photo Workshop’s Alumnus Award. A selection of Maubane’s winning work as contemporary agents within a shifting politics of land ownership. The exhibition opened 4 Oct from her photography series Woza Sisi which looks into the ways in which women street hairstylists in the Allcot Gallery, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. position themselves and how they use and negotiate within urban spaces. Woza Sisi was exhibited at the Market Photo Workshop stand at the 2017 FNB Joburg Art Fair. Planned activities Visual Arts Symposium End of year student presentations In Sep 2017 the Photo Workshop hosted the second Visual Arts Symposium (VAS), which is organised by Black Mark Collective. The theme of this year’s VAS discussions was ‘Urgency and Agency – Strategies Students from the four courses, Foundation Course, Intermediate Course, Advanced Programme in and Contingencies’, which focused on artistic and photographic practices that traverse traditional Photography and the Photojournalism and Documentary Photography, will exhibit and present a categories and that have been initiated beyond the gallery system. selection of their work from 2017 at the Market Photo Workshop’s Gallery 1989. Learning & Teaching Activities continues >> CLPA NEWS 2017#03 5 LEARNING AND TEACHING ACTIVITIES CONTINUED Photo: Recent activities The recipient of the award will receive: • A R40,000 (South African Rand) grant towards the development of an existing or making of a new body of work • Mentoring support from an appointed mentor/curator • Critique sessions with appointed subject and practice experts • Ongoing support and mentorship from Photo: • Online publication of the completed work on the democraSEE.photography website www.democraSEE.photography Nairobi Photographers’ Masterclass The Annual Photographers’ Masterclass took place in Nairobi, Kenya from 24 - 29 Sep 2017. Curators Simon Njami, John Fleetwood, Katrin Peters-Klaphake, Akinbode Akinbiyi and Frédérique Chapuis worked with a group of 12 photographers from sub-Sahara Africa. The participating photographers came from DRC, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Ghana, South Africa, Sudan and Uganda/Kenya. Central to the gathering was discussion triggered by the homework exercises that looked at what ‘African’ means in contemporary photography. democraSEE: New Award for Southern African Planned activities till April 2018 Photographers democraSEE 1 Photo: launched the new award platform democraSEE in Sep 2017. democraSEE is an award The