Travel with photographer Chantelle Gomez along the northeast coast, and explore what Edinburgh’s landscape reveals about place, process and intuition through film and photography.
In this collaborative workshop between Rhubaba and the EAF Civic programme, there is no set aim. Here, participants are free to decide how and where you want to explore the surrounding environment. The trip will 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, is welcome to attend.
Participants are invited to bring along and share personal recording equipment, digital and analogue cameras.
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.
Access Information
- To begin the workshop, the group will meet at The Hawes Inn (7 Newhalls Rd, South Queensferry EH30 9TA) for 10:30am. There are two step-free entrances at the side and back of the building, with ramps and wheelchair access inside.
- There are regular trains running from Edinburgh Waverley station to Dalmeny Railway Station. This route requires a ten minute walk from the station to The Hawes Inn.
- You can also take the 43 bus from Princes St – Waverley Steps (Stop PQ) to Dalmeny Railway Station, which runs on average every 20 minutes. This route requires an 8 minute walk from the Railway Station stop to the Hawes Inn.
- * If public transport will be an access barrier to attend this session, travel costs can be covered. Please speak to [email protected] to organise.
- We’ll spend about 15 minutes meeting each other and setting the scene for the workshop. Then the group will walk 20 mins to the beach front to explore the area with our recording and film equipment. Please bring any equipment you like using (including your phone!), thanks to Stills Gallery, we’ll have sound recording and photography equipment you can try out too.
- Participants are free to walk as far or as little as they like. We particularly encourage you to get lost and be led by intuition!
- You can buy food at The Hawes Inn if you’d like, but we recommend bringing a snack and water for the workshop. Don’t forget to wrap up warm!
- If travel costs would be a barrier to attending this workshop, please contact Rhubaba ([email protected]) or EAF ([email protected]) to arrange travel reimbursement.
This event is 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 aims to connect marginalised people with creativity through film, ceramics, writing, and more. Find out more here.
This event is now sold out. For the waiting list, please contact Civic Curator Elle ([email protected])