6 and 7 November at 17:00
Room 119, Dun Mikiel Xerri Lecture Centre, University of Malta Msida Campus
The M.A. in Film Studies offered through the University of Malta’s Faculty of Arts is proud to announce a couple of lectures which are going to be delivered on 6 and 7 November by the world-renowned photographer and academic Stuart Franklin, former president of Magnum Photos, of which he is a full member since 1989. He is also a Professor of Documentary Photography at Volda University College, Norway.
Room 119, Dun Mikiel Xerri Lecture Centre, University of Malta Msida Campus
The M.A. in Film Studies offered through the University of Malta’s Faculty of Arts is proud to announce a couple of lectures which are going to be delivered on 6 and 7 November by the world-renowned photographer and academic Stuart Franklin, former president of Magnum Photos, of which he is a full member since 1989. He is also a Professor of Documentary Photography at Volda University College, Norway.
Both lectures will be held in Room 119, Dun Mikiel Xerri Lecture Centre, Msida Campus, at 17:00, and will be open to the general public.
On 6 November, Prof. Franklin will be dealing with the complex and multifaceted notion of landscape, discussing the 'land of confusion' which exists between historical concepts of art and landscape as being descriptive of particular places (real or imagined). He will also explore contemporary uses of the term 'landscape' itself and will engage with psychological explorations of nature and society within confused, largely unpeopled spaces.
On 7 November, Prof. Franklin will focus on ambiguity by drawing from his forthcoming book on the subject and by exploring the role of the reader, or viewer, in appreciating and understanding images.
Prof. Franklin authored and co-authored several books, among which ‘The Documentary Impulse’ (Phaidon Press, 2016), and was awarded a Doctorate in Geography from the University of Oxford in 2002. From 1980 until 1985, he worked with Agence Presse Sygma in Paris. During that time he photographed the civil war in Lebanon, unemployment in Britain, famine in Sudan and the Heysel Stadium disaster. In 1989, Prof. Franklin photographed the uprising in Tiananmen Square and shot one of the Tank Man photographs, first published in ‘Time Magazine’, as well as widely documenting the uprising in Beijing, which earned him a World Press Photo Award.
Information on the M.A. in Film Studies is available on the UM website and on the Film Studies Facebook page.
Contact the course co-ordinator, Prof. Gloria Lauri-Lucente by email for further details.