Maybe the most important thing I learned was something most photographers might know and that easily gets lost in common work: photography is an opinion. So every independent portrait ist always a mix between the models approach and my perception as a photographer. During the workshop I had chances to become more sensitive for my own feelings while getting contact to my motives. These feelings are the most important base for a meaningful portrait to me. Unfortunately there was to less time for most of the shootings to get really into this process of a connection with the motives. On the other hand it´s a challenge to get as deep as possible in a short period of time.
As the result there was a spectrum of photos. What’s interesting about the final editing is the analogy in pictures from different shootings. It seems like a puzzle that completes step by step during the workshop. Et voilà, there’s a big picture as a body of photographic work.
Fly with the blowing puzzle
de Christoph Kauttmann (Allemagne)
Four days Paris, four days of intensive photographic work. And there was no real idea what expected me. At least there was an idea what I expected. In my commercial photography I´I’m used to work for my clients intention in a way that’s directed by common aesthetics in advertising. It was time for some experiments. The intention was to get a better feeling for my visual approach working with models and especially everyday people.
Portfolio du workshop Portrait avec Richard Dumas, Mars 2019.
Vidéo-conférence avec
CHRISTIAN GOGOLIN,
Editeur Photo Senior, magazine GEO Allemagne