WORKSHOP with LINA PALLOTTA
Saturday 17 and Sunday 18, April 2010
PROGRAM
This workshop will explore the thin line that defines the boundaries between our own subjective vision and the subject we want to explore.
We will learn creative ways of reframing the world through our own visual metaphor: objective/subjective reportage.
We will review the work of well-known photographers such as Shomei Tomatsu, Daido Moriyama and the group of Provoke, Jim Goldberg, Rinko Kawauchi, Morten Andersen, Ed Templeton and others who have challenged the conventional approaches and strategies to photo-narrative.
We will seek to be truthful - to the facts and to our deep perception - to be unprejudiced, to open ourselves to the unfolding and unbound possibility of reality. To value of content, and the need to establish a point view will be encouraged as a mean to challenge the dominant representation, and a way to tell stories with visual narratives closer to a more personal perception of reality.
We will explore the expressive and communicative possibilities of photography in a moment in which the network and new languages - web-multimedia - are becoming predominant. L.P.
It is suggested to bring a portfolio or a selection of your work both in prints or in digital files.
The workshop will be given in Italian language and translated in English.
Schedule: saturday 10,30/18,30 - sunday 10,30/18,30
Lina Pallotta (1955 S. Salvatore Telesino) lives between NY and Rome. In 1990 she earned a diploma in Documentary Photography and Photojournalism at ICP. She worked as a contributing photographer at Impact Visuals, and from 1991 to 2003, she contributed to the photo agency Grazia Neri. Some of the major stories she worked on are: in New York, Tompkins Square Park and Lower East Side, Afghan Women, the Nuyorican Poets Café; in Mexico: The Day of the Dead, Piedras Negras, Basta - to work and die on the Mexican border. She received grants from: New York Foundation for the Arts - The Catalogue Project 1998; Fund for Creative Communities - Lower Manhattan Cultural Council 2003; CASE Media Fellowships - University of Texas, El Paso. Since 1991 she has been exhibited in many places in Europe and America, among which Casa delle Letterature (Rome, Italy); Queens Museum of Art (New York City, USA); ABC NO RIO (New York City, USA ); Azido Gallery (San Francisco, USA ); L'Atelier de Visu (Marseille, France); CP Gallery (Rome, Italy); Confluences (Paris, France); Maschio Angioino (Naples, Italy); Mole Vanvitelliana (Ancona, Italy). Some of the exhibitions include: "My Face - My Story" 2003; "I am from Lower East Side" 1998; "Imagine/Action-Poesia in Movimento" 1999 (Catalogues with the same titles were published); "Basta - to work and die on the Mexican border", a travelling exhibition in conjunction with a conference with representatives of women from organizations working in Mexico. Since 1990 she has been teaching and giving workshops in many places such as the International Center of Photography and the Empire State College in New York. Currently s