Workshop: TEREZA ZELENKOVÁ & PETER WATKINS CONSTRUCTING MEANING / DISRUPTING NARRATIVE

#2 min Tereza Zelenková, Peter Watkins

22. 9. 2025

TEREZA ZELENKOVÁ & PETER WATKINS
TEREZA ZELENKOVÁ & PETER WATKINS
#49 Talk TogetherFotograf Zone Festival 2025Holešovická Tržnice, Hall 13

Photo books are sometimes described as “paper movies” because, unlike individual images or gallery exhibitions, the photographer controls the sequence in which the viewer encounters the work. This sequencing often follows a narrative or chronological arc. While single photographs can be unruly, ambiguous, and open to interpretation, a photobook – like cinema – shapes and refines that ambiguity through deliberate structure and pacing. In this two-part workshop, we will consider some of the conceptual and narrative strategies behind sequencing evocative photographic series and photobooks. 

Through a series of prompts and disruptions, you’ll be encouraged to explore different approaches to editing a photo book and to think outside the box, critically challenging preconceived ideas around authorial intention and viewer interpretation. We will examine the role of storytelling, context, materiality, and constraint through hands-on editing exercises, peer reviews, and active discussions. We will ask ourselves how we can challenge our expectations, and deepen our engagement – not only with our own work, but also with that of our peers – allowing the unexpected to evolve our conceptual thinking.

WHAT TO EXPECT
– Edit and re-edit your own photo series in response to prompts
– Explore unusual strategies for sequencing and narrative framing
– Participate in collaborative editing and group portfolio reviews
– Try out ing.

EVENT
Oct 3, 2025, from 12:30 to 15:00
Oct 4, 2025, from 15:00 to 17:30

VENUE
Holešovická Tržnice (Holešovice Market), Hall 13
Bubenské nábřeží 306, 170 00 Prague 7

The workshop is part of the FUTURES Annual Event program and are exclusively for FUTURES artists.

Futures Annual Event 2025 takes place within the Fotograf Zone festival in Prague. Futures is co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

#49 Talk TogetherFotograf Zone Festival 2025Holešovická Tržnice, Hall 13FUTURES

Tereza Zelenková

is a photographer who lives in London and Prague. Between 2007 and 2010, she studied photography at the University of Westminster, followed by studies at the Royal College of Art (2010–2012). She has taken part in a number of group projects, mostly in Great Britain but also in the United States, the Netherlands and Switzerland. Her works are part of several significant collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum (London), Foam Photography Museum (Amsterdam), Musée de l’Élysé (Lausanne), Saatchi Gallery (London) and Fotomuseum Winterthur (Winterthur).

Peter Watkins

is an artist, educator, and founder of Postcards for Palestine. His work explores themes of loss, trauma, and history, and is grounded in processes of archiving and remembering. While rooted in photography, his practice extends into spatial, and materially experiential forms, incorporating installation, object, and text.

#49 Talk Together

This issue explores language – its forms, possibilities, and limits. We look at how we communicate in the digital space, how the language of artificial intelligence changes our notions of creativity, and how visual images can replace words. You will discover why language is never neutral and how it shapes identity, creates inequalities, and opens paths to liberation. The issue features a reflection by bell hooks, the artistic practice of Eszter Magyar, projects documenting the Roma community in Brno, and visual essays by Claudia Larcher and Tabor Robak. The magazine presents language as a tool of communication, power, and resistance and invites you to reflect on what it truly means to talk to one another today.

False Friends

#4 min Fotograf Zone

False Friends

#49 Talk TogetherFotograf Zone Festival 2025Jedna Dva Tři Gallery, Petrohradská kolektiv

Language shapes our world, influences our thoughts, and reflects our societies. In the context of the Balkans, specifically the former Yugoslavia, a region marked by shared histories and divergent narratives, language can both include and exclude. Through the concept of “false friends”, words that appear similar but differ in meaning, this exhibition explores how identity, politics, and cultural memory echo in the language we use, and vice versa. Simply put, we often speak of what we believe are the same notions, not realising we understand them differently. These deceptively familiar terms thus become symbols of regional complexities, miscommunication, and broader cultural and historical tensions.

Tereza Zelenková – The Dead, Secret Language of Moths

#3 min Otto M. Urban, Tereza Zelenková

Tereza Zelenková – The Dead, Secret Language of Moths

#38 Death, When You Think About ItProfilePhilosophy

In a tucked-away courtyard full of history, Tereza Zelenková is exhibiting a collection of new works. This is a compact exhibition that works in a refined manner with the gallery space, creating a strange rhythm, suggesting a possible grammar and dictionary for uncovering the essential; that which the images and texts only suggest. The exhibition might be small, but it is an exceptionally concentrated and remarkably rendered cameo.