A lecture by Asaf Amran
Creative vision in landscape photography
On the elements that turn a landscape photograph from a pretty picture into a work with depth, statement and feeling.
About the lecture
The session invites you to look beyond the technical side of photography and into the art of creative vision. Asaf speaks about the elements that turn a plain landscape into an image with depth, statement and feeling — and about how a visual language and a personal artistic vision are built, beyond the gear and the settings.
Whether you have years behind the lens or have only just started, the lecture is meant to challenge and to inspire: to see landscape differently, and not merely to record it but to create with it.
Structure
The lecture is given as one session, and a segment on Dying Beauty can be added to it. Length, emphasis and depth are adapted to the audience and the setting.
The main part is about developing a visual language and a personal artistic vision — beyond the technical side and the equipment. What separates recording a landscape from making something out of it, and what makes a viewer stop at one photograph and move past another.
A segment that can be added, giving a look behind the scenes of Asaf's long-running project at the Dead Sea — on sustained work, on a place that keeps changing, and on photography as a way of saying something.
From the work
The lecture is visual: dozens of photographs, made in Israel and abroad, run alongside the talk.
Who the lecture is for
The lecture is adapted to the setting and the audience, and is given in person or online. It has been presented to photography communities in Israel and abroad, at conferences and in educational settings.
Available in Hebrew and English.
Photographer meetups, clubs, courses and workshops.
Cultural evenings, inspiration sessions or employee events.
Photography schools, colleges, universities and libraries.
Photography conferences, festivals and professional gatherings.
The photographer
Author · Filmmaker · Artist-photographer
One of Israel’s most highly regarded landscape photographers, known for a distinctive and original style — clean aesthetics and carefully composed frames that render a reality more striking than the eye perceives. In recent years his focus has been his flagship project, Dying Beauty.
Alongside his photography, Asaf lectures and writes on software, cloud computing and artificial intelligence, appearing before professional audiences.
Book the lecture
Tell me about your organisation, audience and event. I will adapt the lecture to the setting and the themes that matter to you.
