Towards the end of the school year the stage is always for SintLucas. Since 2017, final year Photography students from MBO SintLucas in Eindhoven have been exhibiting at the Pennings Foundation.
Within the training, creativity is just as important as developing craftsmanship. The students show their best work. This could be a series from one of the 4 disciplines: reportage, fashion, portrait or product photography. But if they want, they can also show free work. In recent years, this has increasingly moved in the direction of storytelling: telling a personal story with photographic images.
It is the students' first opportunity to show their work in an exhibition. In the first years, teachers organized the exhibition. Over the years, students became increasingly involved in the design. In recent years, students have each been given (part of) a wall and can decide for themselves how they want to present their work. With large or small prints, high-end framed or simply attached to the wall with needles, in book form or in the form of an installation. And they can hang it themselves.
Proud parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters and friends come to the opening. But also former students, who see the exhibition becoming more beautiful and interesting every year, precisely because of the students' own presentations.
If possible, a successful former student is invited to give the opening speech. This year it was Madelief de Korte. After SintLucas she continued her studies at Luca School of Arts in Brussels. She recently won the FEP (Federation of European Professional Photographers) Young Photographer Award. “If you want to achieve something you have to go for it”, she told the audience. ”But you also have to have a bit of luck.”
Photos Irma van Bommel (presentations) en Lieke Winters (opening)
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