This information page contains details from our website section presenting the one-on-one bespoke sessions. It contains additional clarifications that we believe may my help us design your sessions.

 

There are multiple and unexpected ways a photography practice can develop, and through this informative page, we would like to provide you with a few examples of possible sessions along with their potential outcomes.

 

If you should have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us directly for clarification.

 

Summary:

• The Chester Photo Festival encourages the participants to work with photography as a visual language to communicate and think through photography. 
• Within a vast realm of aesthetics, rules and techniques, to be considered or not, your unique message and meaning define your work as distinctive.
• These are tailored sessions designed to guide your photography practice, covering landscape, still-life images, street photography, family photos or others, at various stages.
• From initiations or advance sessions, know and choose your camera for projects, understanding project limitations, project developing, presenting your work, exhibition preparation, creating photo books and more.
• 'Show and Tell' remains essential to creative photography practice at all levels and stages of working with photography, its meaning, artist statements, exhibitions and public presentations.
• These distinctive sessions have been developed over the years and together contributing to the Chester Photo Festival.
• It is suitable for everyone at any level: individuals or small groups, beginner or advanced, including undergraduates and postgraduate studies.

 

One-on-One Bespoke Booking Form

Via the Booking Form, you can express your interest in booking one of the sessions.

The details in the form will help us know how to design your session according to your needs.

 

Details we would like to discuss and confirm beforehand include:

• Location where the session will take place.
• The date and time when the session will take place.
• Your photography interest and the aspect of your practice on which you should focus.
• Expected session outcomes.
• If applicable, what your photography topic is.
• Additional details that may define your practice better and help us to design our session efficiently.

Please feel free to use the message text box in the Booking Form to provide additional details.

 

We will discuss the details via the next two following methods:

1. Emailing you from: info@chesterphotofestival.com or events@chesterphotofestival.com and/or
2. Calling you from: 07949 066 406.

After we have established the details of the session, we will send you an invoice to be paid in full in advance. See the details in terms and conditions section.

 

One-on-One Bespoke Session Details

The role of each bespoke session is to develop, guide or initiate your work according to your needs.

 

Here are a few examples of aspects of photography practice that we can focus on during our session:

• Basic or advanced photography tailored to specific areas.
• Finding various ways to develop your photography practice.
• Experiment with similar practices, including various skills and techniques.
• Discuss potential needs for your photography project, such as resources, equipment, locations, materials, collections, literature and references from relevant practices.
• Review your work and identify potential ways to present it.
• Initiate, structure or develop your photography narrative, concept or storytelling to effectively communicate with photography.
• Gain a deeper understanding of the role of photography and connection to your artist/personal statement.
• Learn postproduction skills and prepare a portfolio of photographs, including editing and printing.
• Understand the process of exhibiting your work, including selecting, finding location, sizing, framing and determining a wall placement.
• Clarify the intentions behind your photography and what you want to communicate, as these factors shape your future photography action plans.
• Get ready to present your work to diverse audiences, whether to individuals or to the public.
• Experiment with various ways of working with photography that are relevant to your practice.

Use the Booking Form to provide your details and design your bespoke session.   

The Chester Photo Festival is looking forward seeing you working with photograph.

 

Examples of Photography Topics to Be Explored

The Chester Photo Festival encourages its participants to a photography practice answering the 'What' and Why" questions rather that the 'How'. It invites everyone to explore specific topics driven by its personal stories and curiosity.

 

Here are a few examples of potential photography topics to be explored:

• Re-imagining, imagining, familiarity, every day, the unknown, the new;
• The missing object, objects together, misplaced object(s), unseen, staged or banal;
• From afar, at a distance, distance, behind, shadows, colour, shape and time;
• The narrative, the missing or incomplete image, the missing photograph;
• Misrepresentation and misunderstanding;
• The printed photographed as a physical object, the digital photograph as a virtual object;
• Self-exploration. Who am I?
• Artificial intelligence and the mechanical act of taking or reproducing a picture;
• The possibility of creating a photograph without a meaning;
• What if I create a photograph and someone else would write the artist statement?
• What if I create a photograph for an already written statement?

 

Prices, Locations, Discounts for Guests and Groups

 

Price: £40.00 per hour.

You can invite a maximum of three guests for £20/h each.

Where: Face-to-face in Chester or Online

The sessions can be conducted at other locations or in mixed forms; details will be discussed. Multiple sessions can be booked and would be tailored to your needs.

 

Group bespoke sessions are available for more than 10 participants at £10 to £15 per person; details are to be discussed. 

 

Online via Zoom, WhatsApp or MS Teams.

• Looking at and discussing your produced photographs, finding relevant references for your interest. 
• Looking for and discussing how potentially to start your photography work.
• Looking at, reviewing and receiving guidance on your photography plans.

 

On Location 

Indoors in the Chester City Centre.

We have access to various locations to accommodate most of your needs, including workshop space areas or specific dedicated studio spaces; museums or other public locations; The Grosvenor Museum Chester; and the Boathouse by The Water Tower Gardens, Chester.

Outdoors: In Chester City Centre, Chester Meadows, Frodsham, Helsby Hill, Moel Famau.

At other locations, outdoors, e.g. Liverpool or Manchester, Snowdonia or Anglesey and other areas, for bookings of a minimum of four hours.

 

Please do not hesitate to contact us to discuss your request specifically.