Mobile self-portraiture for editorial self-expression (DIY Photography workshop)
Description:
Inspired by the life of a freelancer during lockdown, participants will explore using their mobile phones and household items to take personality-driven self-portraits. As flagship smartphones continually compete for the title of “best camera,” these devices are becoming more and more capable of taking photographs worthy of publishing. To lean into the strengths of mobile over DSLRs or mirrorless cameras, we will focus on portraits in which the background environment communicates important visual information along with the posing and appearance of the model.
Artist name:
Jasmine Heyward
Artist bio:
Jasmine is a photographer, creative technologist, and writer who endured and admittedly shorter stay-at-home order in Boston before moving to London to pursue an MA in Digital and Interactive Storytelling. They have an eclectic practice that includes everything from 35mm to web and game development, but their primary subject interests are urban life, race and queer issues, mental health, and internet fan culture. You can find their work online at jasmineheyward.com or follow their day-to-day on Twitter and Instagram.
This event is a part of Queer Youth Art Collectives touring exhibition ERRATICA, The Struggle, the celebration
Since September 2019, Queer Youth Art Collective (QYAC) has run free art workshops exclusively for LGBT young people 18-26. We believe arts education should be free and see its liberating power to bring people together every day. Young LGBT artists must be better connected to one another, demand fair wages and the free exchange of ideas across cities and borders.
The white cube, the art school and the studio space. Queer Youth Art Collective respond with their own, sometimes complicated, relations to art institutions as makers, explorers and lovers of art. Join for a touring exhibition with creative workshops run by young artists.
In partnership with Arts Council England, The Bluecoat, Curious Arts, Glasgow Zine Library, GYRO, Homotopia, Outside Project LGBTIQ+ Centre, and Studio Voltaire