10 days in Sicily
Catania, fascinating baroque city, washed by the sea and dominated by the volcano.
Granieri, fortified nineteenth-century farmhouse in sicilian inland, a magic space out of time.
Michael Ackerman and Lorenzo Castore, two friends and great masters of photography, will lead, for the first time together, a workshop "for four hands": a journey through the discovery of the urban, complex Catania, and a dive into the Sicilian rural world.
A chance to learn how to tell with a photo the deepest dimension of reality, how to link attention and emotion, the pursuit of knowledge of oneself and the other ones; a precious opportunity to face with different points of view.
A stay in a beautiful and mysterious land, under the guide of people who chose photography as a way of prying into secrets, both inside and outside of ourselves.
The workshop formula of "shared conduct" between Ackerman and Castore, well represents Obiettivo Granieri's goal of developing its activity of research and diffusion of photography recoiling from any sort of narcissism and competitive dynamics among artists.
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.
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.
obiettivo granieri
poggio castel granieri
piazza silvestri n. 2
caltagirone (ct)
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