This year’s study trip was to Paris Photo and saw 30 students attending from all years of both the BA (Hons) Contemporary Photography and the Foundation Degree Commercial Photography.
The trip is a gift for all who are interested or involved in the subject of photography. As a subject, we are very lucky to have such a prestigious event which covers most aspects of how photography functions, not just in terms of the collector’s 'market', but also in terms of cutting edge contemporary world photography.
The main event is the show in the Grand Palais, on the Champs Elysees. There were hundreds of galleries from all over the world showing all manner of photographic work from vintage prints to the very latest digital photographic imaging.
We visited the Le Bal Gallery, a specific photography gallery in the heart of Paris, which was showing the work of American photographer, Mark Cohen. Unlike Paris Photo, this was a highly curated exhibition, centering on the photographer’s early street work accompanied by descriptive text.
During our second day in Paris we visited to the Pompidou Centre to view the show, Surrealism and the Object. Then to 'offprint', a festival of photography publishing in the afternoon.
The evening resulted with a meal with all the students in a restaurant on the trendy Rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis.
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