Photography
Practical photography tuition can be adapted to beginners, developing photographers and more experienced students looking to strengthen particular aspects of their work.
Areas can include:
- camera skills and photographic technique
- composition and visual storytelling
- natural and studio lighting
- portrait photography
- street and travel photography
- still life and object photography
- editing, sequencing and workflow
- developing an individual photographic project
Sessions can combine technical instruction with practical shooting and image review according to the student’s experience, course requirements and objectives.
Analogue & Experimental Practice
Analogue and experimental processes are at the heart of Ioana’s own creative practice and form a distinctive part of the programme at Artists’ Clinic Barcelona.
Workshops and individual sessions can explore:
- analogue photography
- in-camera multiple exposure
- pinhole photography
- cyanolumen and alternative photographic processes
- photographic abstraction
- image transfer and mixed-media processes
- embroidery and textile interventions on photographs
- material and tactile experimentation
- creative experimentation through analogue constraints
Rather than focusing only on mastering a technique, these sessions use experimentation, limitation and material processes as ways of developing creative attention and discovering unexpected visual possibilities.
Creative Development, Curation & Exhibition Design
Individual sessions are available for students who want to develop an existing project, clarify the direction of their creative practice or explore how their work can be presented and experienced by an audience.
Areas can include:
- portfolio development and review
- project and concept development
- visual language
- creative research
- editing and sequencing
- artist statements and project texts
- curatorial development and artwork selection
- exhibition concept and development
- sequencing and spatial presentation
- exhibition design and visitor experience
- professional practice and communication
Sessions are adapted to the individual student rather than following a fixed programme, allowing support to focus on the specific stage, project or question they are working through.
Creative Experiences in Barcelona
Barcelona itself can become part of the learning environment.
Alongside studio-based tuition, students can take part in creative experiences that combine observation, experimentation, making and encounters with the city’s visual and material culture.
Experiences can include:
- creative observation and photography walks
- analogue photography experiences
- museum and exhibition-based creative sessions
- visits to artists’ and artisans’ studios
- site-specific creative workshops
- sensory and material exploration
- photography and visual storytelling experiences
- intensive half-day and weekend creative programmes
These experiences are designed not simply as tours, but as opportunities to slow down, look more closely, experiment, gather research and engage creatively with place.
Bespoke intensive programmes and creative retreats can also be developed for OCAD student groups, combining practical creative learning, experimentation and engagement with place in Barcelona or other locations.
