Peter Vermaercke » fotoklas

Joke Van Eeghem

Peter — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 17:53:52 +0000

Workshop studio photography organised by fotoklas (UGent).

Fotoklas

Peter — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 09:39:02 +0000

Yesterday I developed a b&w film myself for the first time. Argh… sweet old analogue film (in this case it was T-Max 400 that I popped out of a Leica M6). Thanks to the fotoklas of the UGent it’s really cheap to follow an introductory course on all aspects of photography (dark room, photoshop, photography in general etc).

The developed film looks ok so let’s hope I can make a nice print next week.

Jimmy Kets lecture

Peter — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:54:42 +0000

Tuesday evening was – again – lecture evening. This time organised by the fotoklas of UGent.

When I entered the Therminal I was asked whether I was Jimmy Kets. :-p I guess not.

The really poor turnout (I think there were 7 attendants) made the atmosphere quite cosy.

His lecture was unfortunately a portfolio presentation more than an introduction to his way of working (which I think would have been much more interesting for a group of amateur photographers). As an introduction to his work his talk did more than OK. He explained how he got into photography, what his background was etc.

I know most of his photos and the story behind it (I tend to read this paper a lot) so no big surprises for me. Maybe some more insight into the way of working as a team of photographers (as we had with the presentation of An Nelissen) would have given it an important surplus value.

Nevertheless I enjoyed his presentation (and ICT clumsiness) a lot. His work is extremely fascinating and inspiring. Make sure you check out the galleries on his website or on his blog.