WORKSHOPS & LECTURES
SEEING AND THINKING—IN PRACTICE
SEETHINK Lab offers a series of workshops and lectures that invite participants to engage with photography as both an artistic and cognitive practice.
Each session is grounded in the SEETHINK Educational Framework (STEF) and can unfold as a talk, an immersive workshop, or a hybrid encounter—depending on setting, audience, and intent. Whether reflective or hands-on, each format is designed to inspire reflection, promote ecological awareness, foster new open perspectives of seeing.
These workshops and lectures are designed for curious minds—artists, students, researchers, educators, cultural workers, and anyone interested in how images shape thought, memory, and material practice. No previous experience required; formats can be adapted across knowledge levels and age groups.
THEORY AND AWARENESS
From the first images to how we perceive them today
Zero Baseline of Photography
A curatorial lens on the origins of photography, tracing pivotal “firsts” that shaped the medium’s evolution—from Niépce to NASA, from the first X-ray to the first image of a black hole. These sessions provide historical grounding while inviting reflection on how photography began—and why it still matters.
An invitation to slow down and see with intention. Participants explore four conceptual vantage points—Phenomenology, Time, Transparency, and the Transcendental—to deepen perceptual awareness and unlock new ways of engaging with images.
MATERIALITY AND PRACTICE
Creating, observing, and thinking
Photography Workshops
Experiential sessions where image-making meets reflection. Participants explore composition, camera technique, and storytelling—linking visual choices to the underlying logic of seeing and thinking. Workshops include both analogue and digital approaches, encouraging experimentation with methods such as infrared photography, light painting, photograms, and cameraless image-making. From large-format film to digital tools of all kinds, participants work across a range of cameras and formats—exploring photography as both a process and a perceptual inquiry.
Documenting, Archiving and Cataloguing your Work
A focused introduction to the care and structuring of visual materials. Participants learn how to document, organise, preserve, and future-proof analogue and digital works—connecting craft with cultural memory.
The Art & Science of Sustainable Practices in Photography
Learning Through Material, Process and Care
Sustainable Practices
The Sustainable Practices explore the tactile and ecological dimensions of photography. They introduce participants to environmentally conscious darkroom practices, using plant-based developers and natural materials to reconnect photographic making with the rhythms of nature.
Beyond technical skill, the workshops cultivate awareness of photography’s material and ethical footprint, inviting participants to rethink creation as an act of care—for materials, for process, and for the image itself. Through hands-on experimentation and reflection, participants learn to balance artistic vision with sustainable practice, gaining a deeper understanding of how ecological responsibility can become a creative force within contemporary photography.
WHY SEETHINK LAB WORKSHOPS & LECTURES MATTER
In a world saturated with images, we rarely pause to ask how they shape us—or how we shape them in return. SEETHINK Lab’s educational formats create space for reflection, experimentation, and critical awareness. By revisiting photography’s origins, rethinking its materials, and expanding how we observe, these sessions help cultivate visual literacy, ecological responsibility, and cultural continuity. They are not just about learning photography, but about understanding what it means to see—and to think—with care.
HOW YOU CAN PARTICIPATE
SEETHINK Lab formats are offered independently or in collaboration with host institutions.
To explore upcoming opportunities or co-develop a session for your context, please get in touch.