PHOTOACCESS  has announced that it is offering a new masterclasses program in 2015.

The classes will be aimed at practising photographers, students and photomedia artists and at giving them the opportunity to learn from specialised tutors in a range of areas.

The first masterclass for this year will be “On Landscape Photography”, given by Melbourne artist and educator, Dr Les Walkling, who plans to  explore contemporary landscape photographic practice through pre and post capture equipment and technique, field work, workflow, and style and history, critique, and review.

Various contemporary approaches to landscape photography are engaged, he says, from the representational to the picturesque, including mythical landscapes, poetic landscapes, politicised landscapes, commercial landscapes, and manufactured or altered landscapes. The overall aim will be to ensure the individual is expertly informed, and to dramatically improve their practice, especially their technique, process, presentation and analysis.

The main workshop, with a maximum class size of 15,  is to be presented through discussion, demonstration, critical analysis, case studies and practical applications.

“On Landscape Photography”, by  Les Walkling, at PhotoAccess, Manuka Arts Centre,  9.30am to 4.45pm, May 9 and 10. Enrolments are dye  by  March 6 to  photoaccess.org.au/?q=node/501