Turnabout: Lewis Baltz and Slavica Perkovic at Duckspool November 1998

Work shown on this workshop included everything from handmade books to Iris prints and the photographers’ approaches to their chosen subject matter were equally varied.
Contemporary concerns such the relationship between humanity and the landscape and the nature of news imagery were touched on and chewed over.
The workshop I attended was entitled Turnabout and the work shown by Lewis Baltz and Slavica Perkovic certainly reflected this.
Most people will know Lewis Baltz as one of the "New Topographics", but his more recent work has taken a radically new direction. If you are looking for a challenging workshop, which may well cause you to totally rethink what you are doing, then this one should not be missed (it will be running again in November 1999). Although wondering what I had let myself in for (I initially hated the New Topographics when I first saw their work) I found the workshop very stimulating. The comments made about my work were helpful and constructive. Not bad going for a Minor White fan! (Minor White is not Lewis’s favourite photographer….) And black and white lives!

I’d come on this workshop hoping to consider changing perceptions of reality and possible new directions that my work might take and I wasn’t disappointed.
The legendary Duckspool rapping sessions are a vital part of any workshop there. Topics discussed included Bill Clinton, Macs Vs PCs, the education system and the existence of God.. The jury is still out on the last and possibly also the first of these. Coming to Duckspool provides food for both the body and the soul (assuming, of course, that the soul really exists).