During my workshop I want, above all, to try to live for a week together with you. This may seem trite but it isn't. Succeeding in taking photographs forgetting about oneself in fact means living in real time, open to everything: to yourself and, as a result, to others. This for me is reality and each one of us has his own. I will not, therefore, talk to you about a certain kind of photograph or a certain style. I am not interested in reportage photography, in portraiture, people, landscapes, in black and white or in color … What interests me is that each one of you concentrate his attention on what most resembles you and what you love most. Everyone has their own way. I would like, during this week, that you not only manage to take a certain number of “beautiful” photographs but rather that you are able to take home something much more intangible but at the same time infinitely more real: the desire to go on and to succeed in always facing yourselves. This requires extreme hard work, involves great satisfaction and many other things besides. Above all, it will enable you to feel ready to go ahead alone.

Lorenzo Castore born in Florence in 1973, he graduated in Law at Rome University in 1999 while studying photography privately. He began to take photographs in New York and then in India, Brazil, Albania, Kosovo and Poland. In 2002 he worked in Havana on a project called “Paradise”. In 2003 he was employed by the Humanitarian Society and by the town of Carbonia to work in Sulcis on a project about memory called “Nero” to be carried out in the Sulcis area of Sardinia. The results of the project were exhibited in 2004 at the Palazzo Reale in Milan and became the subject of a book published by Federico Motto Editore. In 2003 he won the Mario Giacomelli Prize and was the photographer for the film “Private” by Saverio Costanzo. Between 2003 and 2004 “Paradiso” was shown in two private exhibitions in Milan and in Paris and in 2005 he won the Leica European Publishers Award Prize, which led to the publication of the book in 6 European countries. He has exhibited in Milan, Warsaw, Munich, at the Architecture Biennale in Venice, at the International Festival of Photography in Rome, in Paris and in Krakow. He has been published by Ventiquattro, Panorama, IO Donna, lo Specchio, il Foglio, Il Fotografo, Avvenimenti, Amica, Photo Nouvelles, Zoom. He is represented by Grazia Neri Agency in Italy and by VU’ Agency and gallery abroad.