Photo-Therapy Day 2020 ONLINE programme

PROGRAMME

Photo-Therapy Day 2020

ONLINE

Royal Photographic Society – Bristol

“GRIFO” Photo-Therapy Research Group

22 May, Friday 10.15 a.m. – 6.30 p.m.

To celebrate Photo-Therapy Day 2020 the Royal Photographic Society and

“GRIFO” Photo-Therapy Research Group are pleased to present the ONLINE Symposium

Explorations of current issues in Photo-Therapy

The online session will take place on Friday, 22 May 2020 starting at 10.15 a.m. and finishing at 6.30 p.m.

It will be held simultaneously both on Zoom and on YouTube platforms, on the same day Hugh Welch Diamond’s paper “On the Application of Photography” was read, at The Royal Society, in 1856.

Dr Diamond’s short account, as the Surrey Asylum superintendent since 1848, about his “peculiar application” of Photography, may well be considered Photo-Therapy birth certificate.

The meeting will be articulated in three parts:

1. Round table with experts - Explorations of current issues in Photo-Therapy

Michael Pritchard FRPS - Heather Nelson - Rosy Martin - Mark Wheeler FRPS - Neil Gibson -

Del Loewenthal - Ayres Marques Pinto - Nicoletta Braga - Roberto Calosi - Marina Marques

2. Diamond Photo-Therapy Award ceremony - Building Community

Justin Quinnell - Ruth Jacobs - Cristina Nuñez - Riccardo Musacchi

3. Presentation of selected papers - Therapeutic use of Photography

Ruth Davey - Rebekah Sunshine - Trupti Magecha - Nick Barnes -

Sisi Burn - John Humphrey - Emilie Danchin

For information about how to participate, write to

PHOTOTHERAPYDAY@GMAIL.COM

Photo-Therapy Day 2020

ONLINE

Royal Photographic Society – Bristol

“GRIFO” Photo-Therapy Research Group

22 May, Friday 10.15 a.m. – 6.30 p.m.

Symposium

Explorations of current issues in Photo-Therapy

10.15

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, 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

Therapeutic Use of Photography

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

17.15

Q&A with Speakers

18.15

Wrap up

18.30

End