Workshop: Hands-On Photography, 35mm Film and Bookmaking

Facilitators

• Kindred Cameras

  Conceived in the midst of the 2021 lockdowns and launched in 2022, Kindred Cameras was created by a small group of photographic practitioners as a way to share their knowledge with the rest of the community. While most photographic education is highly structured and inflexible, Kindred Cameras aims to provide a quality learning environment to those interested in the elements of photography and video – without all the baggage of formal education. Offering a range of classes designed to suit people of all backgrounds, the team behind Kindred Cameras love being able to help their students take their image making to the next level.

• Chris Bowes

  Chris Bowes is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice has taken on many forms, including documentary photography, experimental print making and interactive installations. He is interested in picking apart the medium of photography and video, often finding ways to manipulate the photographs physical form, and how the meaning of images can shift and change depending on the context they are viewed in. Chris exhibits regularly around Australia, most recently with his solo show Split at Photo Access, and his work is held in several collections, including the Macquarie Group, LACMA and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. In 2014 he published the book Money Talks after collecting bank notes that people had written on while working as a teller. Chris teaches at RMIT, previously ran the educational program at Michaels Cameras, and co-founded Kindred Cameras in 2022.