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 outside Rankin’s Cafe (4 Main St, North Queensferry, Inverkeithing KY11 1JG) for 10:30am. The nearest bus stop is the North Access bus stop (North Access, North Queensferry, Inverkeithing, KY11 1JD). 

• Participants will have a chance to buy a hot drink before we start, but are also encouraged to bring sandwiches and snacks. 

• This 2.8 mile walk around the Forth Road Bridge area is suitable for wheelchairs, mobility scooters, dogs, and children. The route is mostly pavement with a few short sections of off-road mud. There are public toilets at the Forth Bridges Viewing Point. 

• 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! 

• If travel costs would be a barrier to attending this workshop, please contact Rhubaba ([email protected]) or EAF ([email protected]) to arrange travel reimbursement. 

Documentation
Please note that this event will be externally photographed as part of the Jack Arts Festival City Stories project. More information will be given on the day, and participants are free to opt out of being included.

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