PAST EVENT: This was part of the Refractions X Civic Programme

As part of year-round programme Refractions: New Conceptions of Film + Photography, EAF Civic and Rhubaba hosted a photo-walk event with photographer Chantelle Gomez. Travelling with photographer Chantelle Gomez along the northeast coast, attendees could explore what Edinburgh’s landscape reveals about place, process and intuition through film and photography.

The event gave participants no set aim, with participants free to decide how and where they wanted to explore the surrounding environment. The trip was be open to reflections, sharing resources and asking questions: How does this environment impact us? Why does it do so? 

Informed by theories of Psychogeography (an exploration of urban environments that emphasises interpersonal connections to places and arbitrary routes) everybody, at any level of confidence in their creativity and connection with land and water, was welcome to attend. 

This event was part of Refractions: New Conceptions of Film + Photography (15 Jan—18 Mar). Co-created by the EAF Civic Programme and Rhubaba, this free event series aimed to connect marginalised people with creativity through film, ceramics, writing, and more. Find out more here.

About the facilitator

Chantelle Gomez is a mixed-media artist and photographer based in the UK. With a keen and patient eye for spontaneous and overlooked elements, their work often captures moments and nuances of the mundane. This can be found in their stills of the beauty of the everyday, in portraiture, collage, videography and interdisciplinary techniques. Chantelle Gomez has exhibited in Berlin, Basel and most recently Edinburgh and has been published in THIIIRD Magazine, Vogue Deutschland, Achtung and Flaunt. She self-published her first photo book “I didn’t / don’t know” in 2018.