Brief

International Markets and Context 

Your group must respond to an exhibition venue/geographic area. For example, your selected venue could be a house and, by turns, the work you make may be about the domestic. You should hold a private view for the public to attend – don’t forget to invite your tutors, peers and take photographs as evidence that the event actually happened and post the exhibition details (including an invite to the Private View) on the course Facebook page (and evidence this is your research). The work you exhibit and submit for assessment should be appropriately edited, printed, mounted and framed. 

Important points of the Brief:

• 6 week time frame 
• group work four of us- assign roles 
• theme -to then relate to a venue 
• Need a venue for a exhibition -cost possible sponsor 
•  marketing -invite
• take images 
• make frames 

Task Find artist relating to a theme: LIFE AND DEATH 

Walter Schels - Life Before Death 

This sombre series of portraits taken of people before and after they had died is a challenging and poignant study. The work by German photographer Walter Schels and his partner Beate Lakotta, who recorded interviews with the subjects in their final days, reveals much about dying and living. 

Edelgard Clavey, 67
First portrait:
December 5 2003 
Edelgard was divorced in the early eighties, and lived on her own from then on; she had no children. From her early teens she was an active member of the Protestant church. She contracted cancer about a year before she died, and towards the end she was bed-bound. Once she was very ill she felt she was a burden to society and really wanted to die

Heiner Schmitz, 52
First portrait:
November 19 2003 Heiner was a fast talker, highly articulate, quick-witted, but not without depth. He worked in advertising. When he saw the affected area on the MRI scan of his brain he had grasped the situation very quickly: he had realised he didn’t have much time left.

Agnes Thor

Thor's photographs, with fresh fruit, fleeting sunlight and hourglasses, have a transient nature about them. Yet surely no other image reminds the viewer more of our mortality than the gravestone of Thor's namesake, her great grandmother.

Nick Brandt

British photographer who lives in the US, was in Tanzania, east Africa, when he discovered the curious nature of Lake Natron, a toxic soda lake where the water temperature can reach 60 degrees.

Brandt, who has spent much time in Africa in his photographic work and as a conservationist, noticed a bleak but fascinating phenomenon in the form of dead animals on the lake shore. The birds and bats had died in the water, but their remains had been so immediately affected by its chemicals that they had calcified and preserved as animal mummies

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