Photography Studio
The Photography Studio is the youngest one at the FFA; its form and pedagogical concept is still being formed both by the tutors and the students. “The Future” is the buzzword in the studio. In our study and teaching process, we try to answer the following questions: what should photography accomplish? Should it be an artistic medium like painting, for instance, or should it be a purely aesthetic medium, like it was during the modernist era? Should photography be used as a tool for speculation about the meaning of art, like it was during the postmodern era? Or should it be purely accidental, without any deliberate artistic intention?
Tutors
doc. MgA.
IvarsGravlejs
Ph.D.
He studied photography at FAMU in Prague; however, he has been taking photographs since his childhood. He plays with language, with combinations of words and images, he mystifies the spectator with a certain degree of infantility. The art of provocation is typical of Gravlejs who, as it happens, can pretend nothing special is at stake.
doc. MgA.
AleksandraVajd
She studied at the Department of Photography at FAMU and at SUNY in New Paltz. She was awarded the title of Associate Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana and has also taught at UMPRUM in Prague. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries in the Czech Republic and abroad, including the Rudolfinum Gallery, the Prague City Gallery, the Museum of Modern Art in Ljubljana, the Astrup Fearnley Museet in Oslo, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.
Responsibility: doc. MgA. Ivars Gravlejs, Ph.D.