FUTURES: Learn with Magnum Photos | Olivia Arthur
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The FUTURES: Learn with Magnum Photos program is designed to help FUTURES artists address challenges in their photography careers, inspire creativity, and build a sense of community. The success of this program relies heavily on your participation. We encourage you to register for the sessions, stay fully engaged, keep your video on, and actively participate with questions and comments. We are working to make the program more interactive, aiming to overcome the limitations of online meetings, and we are confident that together, we can create something meaningful and valuable.
On Tuesday 1 April for an online presentation of Olivia Arthur’s latest book published by VOID: Murmurings of the Skin.
The book looks at both human and machine, not in contrast with each other, but melded together into one lyrical examination of the body. From page to page, we see depictions of people and robots through gentle black-and-white portraits, images of natural and artificial body parts in close examination, moments of stillness, and moments of movement.
For the making of the book, Arthur’s process was slow and purposeful. Changing her approach to work in 5×4, she was obliged to set up her box camera and tripod for each image, ducking underneath the dark sheet each time to get the shot. Working in large format is a slow, intimate, and deliberate process, one that obliges photographer and subject to really spend time with each other, and one in which the person being photographed knows what is going on. “You don’t grab a picture, you really work on it together, and I found it felt very honest to me,”
In this session, Olivia will specifically talk about this project and the making of the book. As always, there will be plenty of space for questions so please come prepare!
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