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The 2019 Royal Photographic Society Hurter & Driffield Memorial Lecture will be given by award winning documentary film maker Anthony Geffen, Film-maker and CEO of Atlantic Productions, whose talk "From Attenborough to Hawking" will describe the challenges of pioneering immersive storytelling in Virtual and Augmented Reality.
As new technologies emerge, film-makers must re-engineer their art form to account for new platforms and more immersive experiences. A pioneer in these mediums Anthony Geffen will talk about what it has taken him to stay ahead of the curve, over a career spanning more than 25 years and his vision for the future.
Anthony Geffen is one of the world’s leading documentary filmmakers and a pioneer in immersive storytelling who has won over 50 international awards including 4 BAFTAs and 8 Emmy Awards. His diverse films include 11 projects with David Attenborough including the BBC series The Great Barrier Reef. His theatrical films include The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest and his most recent television work was The Coronation with The Queen for the BBC. He is widely considered a visionary for his innovative storytelling encompassing multiple platforms including 3D, interactive apps, and most recently immersive experiences in VR and AR with AI. In 2017 he received the first British Academy Award for VR storytelling with David Attenborough’s Great Barrier Reef VR. Current projects include Black Holes with the late Stephen Hawking. Anthony is a fellow of St. Cross College, Oxford University.
Lecture open to all.
Date: 6 February 2019
Time: 18:00 - 20:30
Venue: Royal Philatelic Society, 41 Devonshire Place, London, W1G 6JY
Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection
National Science and Media Museum
RPS Journal 1853-2012 online and searchable
Photographic History Research Centre, Leicester
Birkbeck History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné
British Photography. The Hyman Collection
The Press Photo History Project Mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet Street and the UK
The correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
Historic England Archive
UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre
Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group
www.londonstereo.com London Stereoscopic Company / T. R. Williams
www.earlyphotography.co.uk British camera makers and companies
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock.
National Portrait Gallery, London
http://www.freewebs.com/jb3d/
Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention
Frederick Scott Archer
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