Known for her timeless portraits, professional photographer and artist Diana Lui will lead an instructional workshop on large format portrait photography.
Participants will embark on practical sessions to familiarize themselves with techniques of using a large format camera, composing images and creating black and white portraits. Finally, they learn to process their own black and white film negatives and create contact prints of their own works.
This is a workshop for hobbyists and young professionals who wish to gain exposure to analogue photography. No prerequisites required.
About the instructor
Diana Lui (born May 7, 1968 in Malaysia) is a Franco-Belgian artist, photographer and filmmaker of Chinese origin. She is best known for her large format photographic portraits of today’s growing hybrid generation of multicultural and multiethnic individuals.Lui has been based in Paris for more than 10 years. She graduated from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California in 1992. A master with the 8×10 inch view camera, Lui develops long term photographic and artistic projects over several years. She has won several awards including France’s 20th Bourse du Talent (Young Talent Award for Photography and the Prix Kodak de la Critique Photographique (Kodak Critics’ Award), Belgium’s Prix National de la Photographie Ouverte du Musée de la Photographie à Charleroi and was in 2008 a finalist for the Prix de la Fondation HSBC pour la Photographie.
Her solo exhibition”Totem” will open on October 7 and run from October 8 to 31, 2015, at Alliance française de Singapour.
Read more about her recent exhibitions:
http://www.star2.com/people/2015/08/17/diana-lui-what-gives-a-woman-her-identity/
http://poskod.my/features/photo-feature-behind-the-veil/
Fees:$700 (inclusive of materials)
Dates and Times:
Friday, 2 October – 7pm to 10pm
Saturday, 3 October – 9am to 5pm
Sunday, 4 October – 9am to 5pm
Venue: 120A Prinsep Street, Singapore 187937
Register here
When: 2 - 4 Oct 2015, 9am - 5pm
By: Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF)