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In this webinar Simon talks about his recent work from the East Coast of America, where he worked from December 2020 to February 2021, documenting "The Cool Zone”. "The Cool Zone" is a piece of history that is cool to read about, but not necessarily so cool to live through.
Simon will present some unseen work for the first time, which will be included in his eventual publication, which will collect together work from his last three trips to the US. He will share some anecdotes from photographing different situations, including the Military occupation of DC, a snowball fight in Washington Square Park, and car-park hockey.
This webinar is intended for anyone interested in the process of creating documentary projects in terms of planning, seeing the big picture, and assessing the moment to moment considerations while working a scene.
The webinar will consist of a presentation, followed by a Q&A session.
If you have questions, please make a note of these beforehand and write them into the Q&A panel on Zoom.
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Simon King's biography
Simon is a documentary photographer and uses 35mm film as a medium for long term photo-essay style storytelling. Simon also writes on the subject of photographic practices, theory and ethics, with an emphasis on ideas around journalistic integrity. He usually uses longer lenses on his M Rangefinders in order to isolate detail and compose flatter scenes using vertical or horizontal layering and hierarchy.
Simon's teaching style, which he also applies to the street photography course he leads at UAL, is based in practice research, which involves encouraging students to experiment through trial and error in order to master techniques and further their understanding of different concepts.
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