All welcome

Thursday 17th June at 6.30pm.
The Card Room
Chelsea College of Art & Design

The aesthetics of photography have always evolved from technical achievements. From very static images in the early years due to long exposure times to photo journalism on account of smaller cameras and more sensitive emulsions, from black and white to colour and finally from silver halide to digital. The prospects of technical innovations are in the differences and not as often presumed in the similarities.

Silke Helmerdig, is Professor for Photography, Department of Communication Design, Braunschweig University of Art in Germany In 2006 Silke Helmerdig published a book Ein Pixel, Zwei Korn (One pixel , two grains) about the changes in the aesthetics of photography through the influence of digital imaging.

Her research focuses are on the influence of material on the meaning of the photographic image and on collective memory and photographic images in postwar Germany. Her research is practice based and theoretical. She has an extensive international record of exhibitions.