Workshop  Technical with LORENZO COLLERETA

AdobeGuru certificate PHOTOSHOP

"Color consistency of the shots and calibration of cameras"

November 15, 2009

morning from 9.30 to 13.00

Description:

this workshop guides you to the calibration of cameras with the DNG Profile Editor. Size is very important in the case of shots on the same subject with different cameras, for a more natural colour and colour uniformity of  photographic archives. We show you how to use the profiles created inside Adobe's Photoshop CS4 and Adobe Photoshop Lightroom


Cost half-day Workshop € 75.00

Workshop Technical with LORENZO COLLERETA

AdobeGuru certificate PHOTOSHOP

"Creation of  impossible shots with Smart Objects in Adobe Photoshop CS4 "

November 15, 2009

afternoon from 14.30 to 18.00

Description:

Workshop with ENRICO MINASSO

“Photographing slowly. Pinehole Photography”

22 – 23 November 2009

Description:

The use of pinehole camera is a good opportunity to have a different approach with the image: there is no direct vision through a viewfinder, but search for the right image and framing through a careful observation of the surrounding setting.

Program:

22 November 2009

Meeting in the morning. Presentation of the participants. Lesson in classroom about the use of pinehole camera and discussion on method and approach to “slow photography”.

In the afternoon: projection of images by different authors, who use pinehole cameras.

View of any students’ portfolio.

23 November 2009

The day is dedicated to the use of the pinehole camera. Shots will be taken in the historical centre or up on the hills, if we choose to focus on landscape.

During the shots we will carry on the discussion on “slowness” in photography. Late in the afternoon: final comments and conclusion of the workshop.

About ten pinehole cameras will be available for the participants.

2 Days Workshop Cost € 120,00

Workshop with ANTONIO MANTA

"Print Fine Art: New Frontiers

Course of post-production and Print

together with CANSON Infinity

21 - 22 november 2009

Description

Fundamentals of Color Management

Monitor setting, photoshop and printer drivers. Basic correction of our images, levels, curves, color, contrast, engravings,etc.

Conversions bw

Print

Recommendations on the purchase of monitors, computers, printers, colorimeters, etc., to obtain correct  workflows and  FineArt prints.

Course participants may bring their original files and any copies prepared for testing directly during the course.

Biography

Manta Antonio was born in Empoli, after several working experiences he established in a country town of Valdarno, Pia di SCO'. He always had a close relationship with photography; as often happens, initially for pure diversion,after at a professional level. The many years spent  working on images,made him consider "reportage" a strong reference for his photographic production. Operating in more fields of photography, experience after experience,he caught the essence with regard to photographic composition and content. The desire for knowledge and constant experimentation,brought him to the profession in digital imaging, as well as fine print in fine art. That's why he has chosen, for his photographic studio, the new address located away from the chaos of big cities. Now he's considered,  in the areas first mentioned, one of the leading experts of the moment and is required for this in every part of Italy to hold workshops,  to give lecturers and  conversations on reportages . To his credit numerous publications including photographic-reportages; the finalization of his books production beeing very often  significant charity work.

Librografia:

Enfant du Togo 2004

Anime e Pietre  2005

Prisoners in the desert 2006 years

Against Uganda 2008

Collaborations for Fine Art Print

Nino Best, Pepi Merisio, Fulvio RoiterJohn Marrozzini, Giuliana Traverso, Tim A. Hetherington.

Cost 2-day workshop € 150.00

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Workshop with ERNESTO BAZAN

“The editing of your work”

27 – 28 – 29 of November 2009

Description:

The more I teach, the more I realize how difficult it is to select one’s own work. I am sure that editing is the Achilles’ heel of any photographer.

How many books have we seen, included ours, which could have been much better if we had paid more attention and seriousness in the selection of our photographs?

This will be an intensive workshop where we will deal with several topics about how to gather a coherent and consistent group of photographs.

We will closely examine 20 contact prints of each student in order to learn more about the approach of the photographer, his intentions, his composition style, his ability to discern and to extract from life’s flow the essence of life itself (a rarely useful goal).

We will critically examine some photographic books, trying to understand what make them special or which factors cause them a loss of interest, as the insertion of less interesting photographs, or some erroneous combination between the images, or bad graphic choices.

We will peer at your best images and long-term photographic projects.

I will help you to remove the weakest and more repetitive photographs

that often dilute the best photos’ impact. I will assist you in creating the best photographic sequence, the more appropriated combinations of images.

I can imagine this workshop as a three-day intensive photographic sessions in which we will listen to the different opinions of the group.

We will establish a high standard in the selection of the best images, in order to reach a strong selection that will flow in a harmonious way.

Ernesto Bazan

What to bring:

A long-term photographic project or a portfolio with the best pictures; 20 contact prints with nothing written on; your favorite photographic book.

Author’s Biography:

Ernesto Bazan was born in 1959 in Palermo, in the Sicilian Isle of Italy.

When he was 14, he received his first camera and he began to photograph the daily life of his native city and the rural areas of Sicily.

Photography was much more than a simple work: it was a real passion, a mission of his life.

Bazan published many books: “Il Passato Perpetuo”, “Passing Through”, “I Primi Vent’Anni”, “Isola e Molo Nord”.

In 2008, his new publishing house - BazanPhotos Publishing - published his new book “Cuba” that tells the story of his 14-year-long life and photographer’s experience in the Isle.

Bazan made some expositions in Europe, in Latin America and in the United States.

His pictures belong to private collections and museums like MOMA, the International Center of Photography of New York, SFMOMA in San Francisco, the Fine Arts Museum in Houston, the Center for Documentary Studies of the University of Duke in Durham, the South East Museum of Photography in Daytona, the Fondazione Italiana della Fotografia in Turin, the Biblioteque Nationale in Paris and the Rattau Museum in Arles.

From 1992 to 2006, he documented the “Special Period” in Cuba. This work gave him the opportunity to win some of the most prestigious international awards, like: the W. Eugene Smith, the Mother Jones Foundation for Photojournalism, the Dorothe Lange- Paul Taylor prize, the World Press Photos, two grants from the Alicia Patterson Foundations and one from Guggenheim Foundations.

In 2002 Ernesto Bazan created the BazanPhotos workshop www.bazanphotos.com, giving a special emphasis to Latin America.

Teaching has become a real passion and a mission for him. Thousands of students have studied with him in the last seven years.

He lives with his wife Sissy and with his twins Pietro and Stefano and their three dogs Diva, Ono e Charlotte in Veracruz, Mexico.

3 Days Workshop Cost € 250,00

Workshop with CLAUDE NORI

“The photographer’s book, an autobiographic adventure
between real and fantasy"

28 – 29 November 2009

Description:

For a photographer the book represents a territory of creation, where, page after page, he can invent a purely visual grammar. Starting from the reality of the photographic act, he lets his intimacy and fantasy come up . Like a film director, the photographer becomes the real author of his book, leaving his mark on it, in particular with textes and fictional escapes.

The workshop intends to start from concrete examples concerning the history of the photographer’s great books (Gibson, Ghirri, Frank, Plossu) as well as shots made by the students, comparing theorical, artistical and practical aspects regarding the book, from the graphic research and the pagination until the different ways of printing.

Author’s Biography:

Born in 1949 in Toulouse of Italian parents, Claude Nori is a photographer, publisher and writer. In 1974 he created Contrejour Publisher in Paris, the magazine Caméra International, the Cahiers de la Photographie and many cultural events like the festival Terre d’images in Biarritz, where he lives currently.

After working for Vogue and Daily Télégraph Magazine, he brought out his first book of photographies « Lunettes » in 1976 prefaced by Agnès Varda, followed by a novel published by Seuil, two films and many books, in which he followed a photobiographic search, turning around adolescence, Italy, and happiness.

In 1982 he took part in the project (book by Electa Publisher and exhibition) Napoli, città sul mare with Lee Friedlander, Charles Traub, Gabriele Basilico, Paul den Hollander.

In 1984, he was involved in the exhibition and in the book Viaggio in Italia under the direction of Luigi Ghirri.

Then he exposed almost everywhere: Paris, Arles, Toulouse, Bayonne, Huston, Mexico, Madrid, Valencia, Genève, Coïmbra, Rio de Janeiro, Malmo, Tokyo, Rome, Corigliano, Reggio Emilia….

Bibliography

Lunettes, Contrejour, 1975

Une fille instantanée, novel, Seuil, 1981

Il me semble vous avoir rencontré quelque part, Contrejour, 1983

To the Institute, 1986, French Institut of Naples (limited edition in collotype)

Stromboli, Contrejour, 1991

Fugues Toulousaines, Subervieen, 1997

Toi et moi, En Vues, 1999

Un été Italien, Marval, 2002

Les couleurs du bonheur, Lieux ditsen, 2004

Histoire de la Photographie en France, Flammarion, 2008

2 Days Workshop Cost € 150,00

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Photographic Workshop with Alex Majoli

"Breakfast with Alex Majoli: improvisation on photography "

05 - 06 dicember 2009

Biography

Italian, born in 1971

At 15, Alex Majoli began working for " Studio F45 Ravenna", where he worked alongside withDaniele Casadio. While studying at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Ravenna, he joined the agency Grazia Blacks and went to the former Yugoslavia to document the conflict, returning several times over the years to witness the main events of political and social life in Kosovo and Albania.

Three years after graduation in Fine Arts in 1991, Majoli carries out a deep reportage on the closure of the asylum on the Greek island of Leros, a project that will inspire even his first monograph, Leros.

In 1995, he stays for a few months in South America, photographing various subjects for a personal project in progress, "Requiem in Samba." In 1998 he starts working on the project "Hotel marinum, on the life of the port cities of the world, a work that will flow together into a multimedia theatrical event. The same year he begins to turn a series of short films and docu