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"This workshop will explore the thin line that defines the boundaries between our personal vision and the subject we want to explore.
We will learn creative ways of reframing the world through our own visual metaphors, going beyond the objective/subjective dilemma and stressing the importance of the emotional message and the elements needed to tell a story. We will value the content and the need to establish a personal point of view as a means of questioning the prevailing visual alphabet.
We will try to find solutions, endlessly partial, to the crucial questions of reality-based photography: how can we challenge the prevailing conventions of storytelling and reach for our deep emotions? How can we avoid the cliché and learn how to read the picture beyond our preconceived ideas? Can that perceptive moment of collision between inside/outside lead us to a different and unique understanding of what happens around us?" L.P
Lina Pallotta
Born in 1955 in S. Salvatore Telesino, BN. Lina Pallotta lives between Rome and New York where she graduated in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the International Center of Photography (ICP). Currently, Lina teaches Personal Reportage at the Roman School of Photography, Rome, and at the International Center of Photography in New York.
She holds workshops regularly in Rome and Sicily.
She exhibits, in solo and group shows, in Europe and the U.S. and has been widely published in national and international publications. She received grants from: New York Foundation for the Arts 1998; Fellowship L'Atelier de Visu, Marseille, France, 2001; CASE Media Fellowships, University of Texas, El Paso 2002; Fund for Creative Communities. Lower Manhattan Cultural Council 2003.
Lina has placed the exploration of the everyday life and marginality as the focus of her photographic research, always convinced that it is in the chaos of human interaction that we encounter life with all its conflicts, despairs and hopes.
