Photo-Therapy Day 2020 ONLINE - Programme

Photo-Therapy Day 2020 
ONLINE
Royal Photographic Society – Bristol
GRIFO” Photo-Therapy Research Group
Symposium: 22 May, Friday 10.00 am – 7.00 pm


Symposium
Explorations of current issues in Photo-Therapy

10.00
Opening
On Hugh Welch Diamond - The Father of Photo-Therapy
Dr Michael Pritchard FRPS
Director Royal Photographic Society

10.45
Photo-Therapy Day: a new tradition
Heather Nelson
Psychotherapist, member of GRIFO Friends UK

11.00
Round Table
Explorations of current issues in Photo-Therapy

Embodiment, performativity and collaboration
Rosy Martin, Pioneer of Photo-Therapy. Artist based in London (UK)

An extant photograph as an imaginal target
Mark Wheeler FRPS , Photo-Art-Psychotherapist NHS National Health Service (UK)

Therapeutic Photography Online
Neil Gibson, Senior Lecturer BA (Hons) Social Work Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen (UK)

Photo-Therapy and Post-Memory in the Post-Truth Era
Del Loewenthal (tbc), Director of the Research Centre for Therapeutic Education
Department of Psychology at the University of Roehampton (UK)

Photo-Therapy in Expressive Therapies
Ayres Marques Pinto , Semiologist, “GRIFO” International Photo-Therapy Research Group Coordinator
Nicoletta Braga, Artist and University Professor of Phenomenology of the Body at “Brera” Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Italy
Roberto Calosi, Psychotherapist, Art Therapist Member of ICAAT – International Coordination of Anthroposophic Arts Therapies – Florence
Marina Marques, Visual Arts student based in Venice and Manchester,
Media Manager for Last Frame Project

12.30
Q&A with Speakers

13.00
Lunch
14.00
Diamond” Photo-Therapy Award – 2020
Building Community

Community Photography: a pinhole work
Justin Quinnell, Photographer, teacher and lecturer based in Bristol – UK
Ruth Jacobs, St Paul’s Darkrooms Director

The Self-Portrait Experience
Cristina Nuñez, Artist-Photographer and lecturer based in Switzerland

BodyMind Photo-Therapy
Riccardo Musacchi, Psychotherapist, founder of BodyMind Phototherapy Institute

15.30
Presentation of the selected papers

Look Again, Mindfulness Photography
Ruth Davey, Photographer, Director of Look Again

Fetish Photography: Using Photography to Explore Alternative Identities
Rebekah Sunshine,

A Creative Whole School Approach to Emotional Wellbeing at Woodside High: the project
Trupti Magecha, Director deep:black

A Creative Whole School Approach to Emotional Wellbeing at Woodside High:
quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods
Dr Nick Barnes, Senior Honorary Lecturer, University Central London

16.30
Tea/Coffee

16.45
Working Through Grief – Processing Bereavement using photography
Sisi Burn, Photographer and Transpersonal Arts Counsellor, Tobias School of Arts & Therapy

Photographic Wellbeing
John Humphrey FRPS, Photographer, writer on photography and on mental wellbeing

Analytic Photography
Emilie Danchin, Artist – Photographer, Philosopher and Psychotherapist

17.30
Q&A with Speakers

18.30
Wrap up

18.45
End

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