Desperate Housewife

Is a widespread belief among enthusiasts of photography that to report something beautiful, interesting and with value you have to go far from home. Often the documentation of a long journey, preferably rough and accompanied by a minimal dose of danger, always, and that you need, a war, a riot, a natural disaster, or at least a bit of exoticism.
Images perceived as extraordinary phenomena, taken away from us, have formed our photo memory , apparently with good reason in an age where only the lucky few photographers could tell the world. Today, and for many years, the world is an open book, constantly scrutinized by the satellite is no longer the extension to be interested,but the depth of certain phenomena, their causes, individual stories. Not that the trip has lost its meaning, is still very strong emotion for a photographer to portray western Amazonian population, an African child, a Chinese worker and the joy of everyone to review the images obtained and taken as testimony of our being elsewhere.
The world is now full of photographers, we can say that in the Western world, from 6 to 90 years, we are all photographers. So, with this workshop for the women photographers we really want to emphasize the daily "journey" in its most intimate, domestic dimension of the "adventure" that inevitably brings.
Tina Modotti said that women, anchored to the cycles of life, by their very nature lack concentration, always distracted by everyday life. Modotti indicated the limit, the boundary or the starting point from which our project begins: we want to focus just where women are more present in everyday life in the home.
What would the history of photography without families and children of various kinds of Arbus? The pairs of Nan Goldin? The home life of the ferrato? Just to name a few. women are looking to enter daily in small folds in the small details, small large universes it contains.


Program
Classes will be held by Simona Filippini, Eva Tomei and Benedetta Guidi cestelli at officine fotografiche.
The workshop is addressed to a minimum 15, maximum of 20 photographers who have a technical knowledge base weekly frequency, duration of the meetings about 3 hours.
Total matches: 10.
The course will be to reach 15 participants.


Purpose of the workshop
Each photographer must develop and implement a story in pictures, at least 10 images, max 15, through which will tell a very personal aspect of his life confined to his home. The final project will be a public screening, possibly even a catalog, whose schedule will be decided by the Associations Officine Fotografiche and Camera21.


Methods
Each participant will be invited to present at the beginning of the course, their favorite photograph, which could consist of any picture: family, copyright, history, taken from a book, album, or the Internet. This should help identify the tastes, knowledge, style that each participant has or will develop. After a short presentation by each staff will choose a topic that may relate to family life, the origins, the home environment.
In any event it will check the books of author and work of one or more photographs and notes it will deepen the working method will all work together from time to time vision is shared by the group, their observation / criticism will be means of learning for each. The participants will be helped to solve common problems encountered technical and methodological.


Calendar
The workshop will take place on Fridays and Saturdays during the month of October 2010.
Start: October 1
End: October 30

1st meeting: presentation of the course
2nd meeting: gathering images of participants and identification of the theme chosen
3rd and 4th meeting: shooting in a private home
from the 5th to the 10th meeting: development of theme, including through the presentation of works of authors of reference.

Teachers: Simona Filippini, Eva Tomei e Benedetta Cestelli Guidi.
Chairman: Marina Rivera


Where
Officine Fotografiche - Via Libetta, 1


Information and registration
Officine Fotografiche
Marina Rivera 348.8928921
www.officinefotografiche.org - of@officinefotografiche.org

Camera 21
www.camera21.it - info@camera21.it