Teacher Professional Learning: Izabela Pluta - Collaborative Darkroom Photography

1 – 4pm

Leading contemporary artist Izabela Pluta will facilitate this unique off-site workshop stemming from immersive colour darkroom photography, and focusing on embodied practice, experimental processes and light-sensitive materials.

 
This hands-on workshop is designed to engage teachers’ and art educators with professional knowledge to inspire new ways of engaging students in contemporary art, collaboration and photographic practice.

 
The workshop explores the unique possibilities of creating a collaborative colour photogram. Participants will work together engaging with light-sensitive paper to investigate the sensory and material processes of photography as a way of inspiring broader uses of image-making beyond controlled darkroom environments: the session delves into the dynamics of embodied practice and experimental image-making.

 
Many of the techniques explored can be applied to schools that do not have a darkroom and this will be expanded on further in the session.

Learning intentions:

• Connect curriculum expectations with creative practice in real-world teaching

• Embed contemporary photographic approaches aligned with current curriculum frameworks

• Build confidence in creative experimentation with materials, techniques, and processes

• Support teachers to critically reflect on their own practice and student learning

• Support teachers to lead rich, research-informed teaching strategies

• Support student understanding of visual language and conceptual thinking

Where: This workshop will take place off-site, at Wetlab photography in Brunswick East. Participants will meet and depart from there. Further details are provided upon booking via Humanitix.

Tickets:
Student Teacher $40 + GST
Teacher $45 + GST
Free for regional teachers

Recommended for Primary and Secondary Visual Art Teachers and Student Teachers

Regional teachers, we’re pleased to be offering a limited number of free spots! To secure a limited free ticket please email ACCA Education here, and tell us a little about yourself and your school community.

Artist Biography
Izabela Pluta

Izabela Pluta is an artist with an interest in expanded photographic practice. Born in Warsaw, Poland, she currently lives and works between Mulubinba (Newcastle, NSW) and the lands of the Bidjigal and Gadigal (Paddington, Sydney). Izabela holds a PhD from The University of Wollongong, is a Senior Lecturer at UNSW Art and Design Sydney.

Izabela Pluta’s expanded photographic practice is characterised by processes of embodied fieldwork, fragmentation, dislocation and reconfiguration, which she deftly uses to disrupt linear narratives of time and questions the idea of photography as a factual and reliable tool. Her work aims to push the limits of photography as a medium and practice developing a way of working that physically and conceptually navigates states of uncertainty. From tracing geological changes across deep time to addressing faster- changing anthropogenic, cultural, environmental and societal shifts, she considers different aspects of place in an ever-changing world.

AITSL Australian Professional Standards for Teachers addressed:
Standard 2: Know the content and how to teach it
(2.1) Apply knowledge of the content and teaching strategies of the teaching area to develop engaging teaching activities.

Standard 6: Engage in professional learning
(6.2) Participate in learning to update knowledge and practice, targeted to professional needs and school and/or system priorities.

6.4 Undertake professional learning programs designed to address identified student learning needs.

(7.4) Engage with professional teaching networks and broader communities