Eastern Partnership Photography
Yerevan (Armenia)
5–7 May 2014
The leading criteria to select the
participants were the fact of applicants’ residence in the region and
their motivation. Sixteen participants
were selected representing various regions of Armenia (including the cities of Echmiadzin, Vanadzor, Abovyan,
Byureghavan, Armavir, Spitak and Gyumri).
The President of the NAPA Sergey
Hakopyan presented SAY CHEESE!
Project. Georgian Photo Artist Mzia
Lekveishvili gave a lecture Monocle
as an expressive mean in contemporary
photography. Extremely popular was
the lecture by Armenian photo artist and expert Hakop Berberyan Contemporary means and basics of sport
photography. Kakha Phakadze, the
President of the Association of Photographers of Georgia gave lecture
HDR Technology in photography.
The second day of the seminar included master-classes by Armenian
photographers Vigen Mnoyan Portrait
photography, composition and lighting and by Artashes Martirosyan Lighting in directed photography and work
with models. Lighting schemes, peculiarities of space in studio and field
shooting, approaches to working with
various models.
The participants had a unique opportunity to attend the lecture by
Martin Shabkhazyan Similarities and
differences between contemporary and
Soviet digital reportage photography,
talk to the legendary photographer
and cameraman of the Soviet period
Levon Atoyants as well as listen to
the lecture by Mzia Lekveishvili about
street photography.
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Ivano-Frankivsk (Ukraine)
4–5 June 2014
Participants from various regions
of Ukraine attended the seminar:
from Vinnytsia, Krivyi Rog (Dnipropetrovsk Region), L’viv, Oleksandriya
(Kirovohrad Region), Chernivtsi, Zaporizhia and Kyiv. Totally, there were
more than 70 participants. The lecturers invited were Taras Perun from
Chernivtsi (master-class on Bichromated gum print), Viktor Suglob (master-class on Shooting technique with
use of light brush), Siarhei Plytkevich
from Minsk (lecture Secrets of nature
and landscape photography), Yarema
Protsyv (master-class on Post processing of pictures), Maryana Glinskaya
from Ivano-Frankivsk (lecture presentation Production and theatricality in
photo art), Gleb Vysheslavsky (lecture
Interaction of photo equipment and
perception) and Mykola Ivashchenko
from Kyiv (lecture Smartphone as an
assistant of photographer).
While evaluating the organization of the seminar, the participants
noted:
– high quality equipment does not
make a good photographer;
– communication with colleagues is
of high importance;
– they’d like to have such an event
in their own city;
– it’s time to become more familiar
with smartphones in their profession;
– they liked a lot Ivano-Frankivsk
and the Carpathian mountains;
– the seminar gave an opportunity
to meet artistic people;
– it’s never late to learn new things;