How to Treat an Image: Transforming Photographs through Ritual

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography is an artist-run centre committed to supporting diverse approaches to photographic and image-based practices through exhibitions, education programs and facilitating artistic

Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography

This workshop explores how ritual actions can transform photographic images, creating works that carry both visual and performative meaning.

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Workshop Series DescriptionHow to Treat an Image Photography captures a moment, but what happens when we intervene in that moment? How to Treat an Image is a workshop series exploring physical and conceptual interventions into the photographic image. Through acts of destruction, manipulation, and reconstruction, participants will push photography beyond its traditional boundaries, questioning its role as a fixed record.Blurring the lines between photography, sculpture, and performance, this series challenges participants to rethink photographic materiality. Whether working with their own images or found materials, they will engage in processes that transform photography into a tactile, multidimensional form of storytelling.Workshop DescriptionThis workshop explores how ritual actions can transform photographic images, creating works that carry both visual and performative meaning. Participants will learn various techniques for physically altering photographs including burning, tearing, shattering, cutting, soaking, and scratching. We will discuss the conceptual frameworks for these interventions, examining how physical manipulation can embed personal narrative, memory, and emotional resonance into photographic objects. Through hands-on experimentation, participants will create a series of transformed images that expand beyond traditional photographic boundaries. The workshop combines technical instruction with discussions about ritual in contemporary art practice, focusing on how destruction can become a generative act.Requirements<ul><li>Please bring 5-10 printed photographs (can be personal photos, found images, or test prints)</li><li>Basic materials will be provided, but participants are welcome to bring specialized tools</li><li>Please wear clothes suitable for art-making</li><li>No prior experience necessary</li></ul>

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How to Treat an Image: Transforming Photographs through Ritual

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