Photo-Therapy Day 2020 ONLINE Information

Information:

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

How to participate

1. Make a donation of any amount to “GRIFO” Friends, for the organisation of the Photo-Therapy Day

We suggest one of the three modalities:

Friend donation: 5 Euro

Brother donation: 10 Euro

Mother donation: 25 Euro

It can be done either through:

GoFundMe Photo-Therapy Day: gf.me/u/xy9d9f

or

The Royal Photographic Society: https://rps.org/phototherapy2020

2. In order to guarantee that the event will be delivered to you, it will be held simultaneously both on Zoom and on YouTube platforms.

So you are asked to take 2 steps:

a. subscribe to the YouTube Photo-Therapy Day Channel - http://tiny.cc/PhotoTherapyDayYouTube

AND

b. book to the Zoom meeting on the RPS site - https://rps.org/phototherapy2020

Please note that you must register through RPS to be allowed to the Zoom meeting.

3. You can follow all the updates by joining our

Facebook Photo-Therapy Day Page: https://www.facebook.com/PhotoTherapyDay

Facebook group PhotographicActs: https://www.facebook.com/groups/PhotographicActs

Blog Photo-Therapy Day: https://phototherapyday.blogspot.com

For further information, please write to

PHOTOTHERAPYDAY@GMAIL.COM