Photographic Workshop with Michael Ackerman
" In the bowels of Naples"
New Years' Eve 2008
From December 28, 2008 to January 4, 2009
"O city, you are as unreasonable as a heart.
Against my palm I have felt the beat
Of the city and of the heart: of the elusive city
And of my heart surprised by life, enormously."
(Apollinaire)
A journey in the bowels of a seductive and indecipherable city, abandoning oneself to its vibrations to let the passions and emotions beat.
Capturing with the heart's eyes the bright and brutal humanity in all its contradictions, and looking in to recognize one's own. An intense experience that will enrich the course of anyone's research.
Michael Ackerman, born in Tel Aviv in 1967, at the age of seven he moved to New York with his family. He has been a professional photographer since 1990. He began working in the streets, in nightclubs and in the dock area of New York. In 1993 he made his first visit to India shooting in Calcutta, New Delhi and Benares. In 1994 he returned to India to continue his work in Benares. In 1996 he worked in New York on Times Square and in 1997 he began a project called "Smoke" with a singer called Benjamin in Cabbagetown, Atlanta. In 1998 the photographs he took in India earned him the Infinity Award from the International Center of Photography in the young photographers category and in 1999 "End Time City" published by Nathan Delpire and Scalo received the Nadar prize as the best photographic book of the year. In the following years he worked in Poland, in Marseilles, in Naples and in Havana. In 2001 he published his second book "Fiction" with Delpire. From 1997 to the present day he has had many exhibitions throughout the world, among which have been those in New York, Berlin, Milan, Rome, Madrid, Barcelona, Krakow and Paris. The VU Gallery represents him abroad and the Agenzia Grazia Neri in Italy.
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