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Toscana Photogr aphic Wor kshop
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SPRING
INDIA
KOLKATA
MARCH 6 - 13
ED KASHI
Kolkata’s Daily Life:
Visual Storytelling in the
City of Joy
APRIL 8 - 15
ALEX MAJOLI
Easter Procession
SICILY
SIRACUSA
MARCH 14 - 21
STANLEY GREENE
MARCUS BLEASDALE, ALICE WILSON,
CHERYL NEWMAN
Changing Idea Workshop
APRIL 16 - 23
GIORGIA FIORIO
Discover your
Photographic Vision
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Till the End of the World
SCICLI
TRANSYLVANIA
MAY 14 - 23
ANTONIN KRATOCHVIL
Lost Villages of
Transylvania
AUTUMN
PIEDMONT
SEPT 23 - OCT 3
Focus on Monferrato
Masterclass
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SUMMER
TUSCANY
JULY 19 - 25
JULY 26 AUGUST 1
DAVID ALAN
HARVEY
On The Road
BOB SACHA
Multimedia &
Storytelling
OLIVIA ARTHUR
Finding a Voice
STANLEY GREENE
War and Victims
ANTONIN KRATOCHVIL
Portraits on the Edge of
the Light
CHISTOPHER
ANDERESON
The personal Vision
PROFESSION &
C A R E ER
KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN
Long Term Projects and
How to Make it
Happen
ANDREA PISTOLESI
The Photostory from
Idea to Publishing
ED KASHI
Documentary
Photography and
Storytelling in the
Digital World
LANDSCAPE &
ARCHITECTURE
SALLY GALL
Tuscany Style: a
Different View
SANDRO SANTIOLI
Light, Colour &
Landscape
HENRY HORENSTEIN
Country Roads
of Tuscany
ERICA SHIRES
Art and Commerce:
Personal Vision and
Commercial Work
LORENZO CASTORE
Define Your Territory
-------------------------DOUGLAS BEASLEY
Zen and the Art of
Photography
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PEOPLE &
PLACES
DOCUMENTARY
PHOTOGRAPHY
PERSONAL
RESEARCH
PORTARIT
NUDE & FIGURE
PHOTO
TECHNIQUES
ARNO RAPHAEL
MINKKINEN
Eye of the Heart:
Seeing from Inside
Your Self
---------------------ANDERS PETERSEN
Surprised by the
PHILIPPE PACHE
Sensuality of Light
PAUL ELLEDGE
The Creative Portrait:
See Yourself in Others
GIANLUCA COLLA
The Digital Workflow:
RGB Urevealed
CLAUDIO AMADEI
Lightning Techniques
AUGUST 2 - 8
MARIANNA SANTONI
Advanced
Photoshop for
Photagrapher
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WELCOME TO TPW
2009 will be a year full on new interesting projects: from the new workshops in Kolkata, India, to
those in Sicily, to our new “on the road” projects, where we will discover together new European
regions -Transylvania - or look with new eyes at famous cities - London and Rome.
We will continue our project Passion & Profession, as well as our Masterclass Focus on Monferrato.
And, of course, we will be in Tuscany during the Summer, at the heart of TPW where our adventure
started many years ago.
From a few weeks of summer classes in Tuscany, 15 years ago, we have grown and developed our
projects in many directions, discovered new locations.
Many things have changed since then: our country houses were connected by white roads that
do not exist anymore, there were no cell phones or digital cameras…everything ran at a slower
pace, but at the same time very efficiently…
Throughout the years we have built a network of photographers, students, friend that every year
come to share their experience with us.
What we hope has not changed is the love for photography, and magic of spending a week totally immerse in a workshop with other photographers, to learn new technologies or to develop your
vision.
Many years ago one of Arno Minkkinen students’ told me that TPW stays for “Totally Perfect
World”…together with Arno we decided to transform it into “Almost Perfect World” – and since
then, we really care about that simple word, almost…
It is that word that pushes us to add new projects year after year, to keep dreaming…and to show
that TPW has a heart, therefore the possibility to follow - sometimes -more the heart than the reason, and make important choices…
Everybody keeps telling me that TPW is me - Carlo Roberti.
I do not totally agree: I am the facade, the reference point, but behind or ,better, inside TPW there
are many people, who believe in our project and help with their work, enthusiasm, commitment
and passion.
If you have been at TPW, you know what I am talking about.
TPW is made of these people, people like you.
Do you remember Archimedes’s principle we have been taught at school?
“A body immersed in fluid experiences an up thrust force equal to the weight of the fluid displaced”…
This is what TPW is about: each of you receives, during one week at TPW, an amount of energy as
strong as the one you give…
Well, sorry if I have been too long: after all, this is the only time to talk to all of you who have not
been at TPW yet.
Please remember that you will find updates on our newsletter, we send it out once a mont, more
or less, after all we are almost perfect!
Best wishes to all of you, I hope to meet you somewhere during 2009.
Carlo Roberti
Founder and Director
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SPRING
INDIA
MARCH 6 - 21
SICILY
APRIL 8 - 23
TRANSYLVANIA
MAY 14 - 23
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FEBRUARY 20 - 22
After the great success of the first Edition of Passion&Profession in Montepulciano at the end of June, we
are now presenting new appointments.
Our aim is to push young photographers to focus on the world of professional photography and to try to
change their passion into a profession: with the help of high qualified experts, we will examine all the
aspects of the photographic profession.
The experts, who will be at the panel in the mornings and in the working groups in the afternoons, will be:
photographers, news agencies, on-line agencies, publishers, photo-editors, art-gallerists, who will try to give
you a clear vision of the market.
Most of our students, throughout the years, became professional photographers, and they now work with
magazines and agencies. Others discovered the world of fashion and advertising, some others are now
working in the art photography circuit and or as photo editors, curators or critics. The photography world is
full of opportunities: it is always a pleasure to receive a mail from a student that publish a book, opens an
exhibition, propose his photo-essay. During our workshops the students try to improve their vision, with the
help of the teachers, major international photographers. Those who decide to choose this profession usually start with a lot of questions. These will be three important days to understand how to become part of
the photographic community and start your career into the professional world.
Three days will be divided as follow:
1. Fine-art photography, dedicated to those who use photography to express their artistic vision and
who plan to exhibit their work in shows, through books and prints. We will discuss: how to organize exhibitions, prepare portfolio and editions for art galleries, how to print according to collectors market’s specifications, selling and rights on photographs.
2. Travel photography, for those who want to explore the world and its cultures. Topics that will be discussed: what paper and on-line magazine need; new technologies; how to present your work to photoeditors; how to tell a story through images; multimedia, combining sound and photographs.
3. Documentary photography and photojournalism: we will talk on how the market has drastically
changed in the last years; working independently or with an agency; photographing in conflict zones;
working with NGO’s; copyright and marketing your images; publishing your work.
In the afternoon there will be other group sessions - 90 minutes long - with a single expert to further develop the topics of the morning.
IMPORTANT: the working sessions are NOT portfolio review.
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Kolkata’s Daily Life:
Visual Storytelling in the City of Joy
Workshop instructor: Ed Kashi
This workshop will offer the possibility to work on personal projects on daily life of one of the world’s
most fascinating cities, and at the same time learn and develop the skills to produce work for
future publication, using the digital workflow.
The digital age is giving photographers extraordinary new ways to create and organize our photographic projects. This workshop will show how to utilize the power of great photography with
the new digital workflow to extend the ability of the visual storyteller. Ed Kashi will share examples
of his personal projects and work with National Geographic and other major publications to illustrate the possibilities of photography as a source of passion, personal expression and communicative power. He will discuss how you develop an idea, get access to your subject, determine
your goals and present your work to editors. The objective is to share the passions for photography and inject that spirit into the students. Digital photography is just a new tool and what is most
important is to understand the traditions of photography, storytelling, narrative and intimacy so
we can integrate these qualities into our work in the most effective manner possible.
There will also be presentations and discussion on multimedia, how it fits into the changing landscape of media today and what and where the opportunities are for creativity and distribution
of your work. Ed will share recent work from a big project he shot in India that appears in the
October 2008 issue of National Geographic magazine.
The students will view the instructor’s work, outlining the complete process of creating a project
from beginning to end. Each student should expect to shoot a photo essay during the workshop
that deals with some aspect of life in Kolkata.
“My work has been profoundly effected by the political and social issues of my time. I derive my
passionate drive to commit significant time and energy to produce works that are in-depth and
personal. My desire is to report on, capture and tell the stories that I believe will impact humanity in the short term and for decades to come.”
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SPECIAL PROJECT
DATE
MARCH 6 - 13
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1700 €
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CHANGING IDEAS:
Working with NGO’s and Making a Difference
with Photography
Workshop instructor: Stanley Greene
Every photographer wants to take great pictures that can make a difference and help make the
world a better place. This photo workshop gives you the opportunity to work closely with an NGO
in the bustling and vibrant India city of Kolkata under the guidance of experts.
This is a workshop for experienced photographers with a burning passion to give something back
and produce stunning photography that can help transform the work of an Indian NGO.
Conditions will be tough and challenging; you will see the worst humanity has to offer but,
through your work with an NGO, you will also see the best.
We have made arrangements with a number of NGO’s so you will be able to spend time covering a range of subjects - from street children to HIV/AIDS and including slum dwellers, rickshaw
pullers, child labour and adoption. The NGO’s with whom you will be working are small and lack
the resources to commission photography.
The workshop will be lead by the award-winning photographer Stanley Greene whose passion
and zeal for photography is infectious. He is sure to motivate you to work as hard as you can
throughout the week to identify the needs of an NGO and produce stunning photographs that
meet their needs.
Support will be provided by Alice Wynne Wilson, Communications Director of ActionAid India
who will provide insight into an NGO’s photographic needs and Cheryl Newman, Photography
Director of The Daily Telegraph Magazine. Additionally, Carlo Roberti and his staff from Toscana
Photographic Workshop will provide the logistics before and during the workshop and Changing
Ideas will be on hand to ensure that the participants meet the NGO’s needs and to help participants think differently about humanitarian photography.
Kolkata is an exciting and vibrant city in whose busy, bustling streets you can find an example of
almost every aspect of the human condition. With your camera you are sure to capture stunning
images and you will end the week with a better understanding of working with NGO’s in addition to a portfolio of work that is useful for the photographer and vital for the Indian NGO.
It is intended that this workshop is different to the usual photo workshop and delivers a life changing experience for those involved.
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SPECIAL PROJECT
DATE
MARCH 14 - 21
TUITION
1700 €
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SICILY
Our center will be in Scicli.
Scicli and the area around it are part of the UNESCO World Heritage.
Located between the sea and cities like Noto and Modica, is the perfect center to explore also the Sicilia Baroque.
Accommodation will be in double or single rooms, breakfast is included.
Lunches and dinners will be paid separately. We strongly recommend to shoot
digital: in fact labs will be closed for at last three days, and it could be hard to
get film processed on time for the final night slide-show. Please bring your own
laptop in order to download images and prepare your edit.
We will rent cars to share between 3 students. The cost for rental is about Euro
200 per student, including unlimited Km and insurance.
The closest airport to fly into is Catania, which is two hour away from Scicli.
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ALEX MAJOLI
Easter Procession
For years, TPW has planned workshops in Sicily during the Easter Processions. We usually look at
Easter Processions not as a single event, but as part of life and spirit of Sicily. We will follow the last
4 days of the processions and, at the same time, full of this strong visual and emotional experience, plunge ourselves into Sicily’s everyday life and culture. In the days leading up to Easter, processions are carried out bringing to life the Passion of Christ. The Christian component goes side
by side with the pagan element, resulting in the creation of unique rituals which are completely
different from all the others taking place in the rest of Italy. Our workshop will start on Wednesday,
in order to be ready to shoot on Holy Thursday. We will start following the processions in the villages on the Eastern part of the island, in the little towns where there is a greater intimacy and a
strongly felt sense of the religious tradition than in the larger, more well-known processions. We will
go out at night and witness the most crucial moments of the processions and we will move from
town to town, often finding ourselves on country roads, in order to reach the places where this
ritual is celebrated in a humble yet potent way. The last days will be concentrated in Scicli, where
Easter celebrations are stronger that enywhere else. We will spend all day on Tuesday editing the
work produced during the week.
At the age of 15, Alex Majoli joined the F45 Studio in Ravenna, working alongside Daniele
Casadio. While studying at the Art Institute in Ravenna, he joined Grazia Neri Agency and traveled to Yugoslavia to document the conflict. He returned many times over the next few years,
covering all major events in Kosovo and Albania. Majoli graduated from art school in 1991. Three
years later, he made an intimate portrayal of the closing of an asylum for the insane on the island
of Leros, Greece, a project that became the subject of his first book, Leros. In 1995 Majoli went to
South America for several months, photographing a variety of subjects for his ongoing personal
project, ‘Requiem in Samba’. He started the project ‘Hotel Marinum’ in 1998, on life in harbour
cities around the world, the final goal of which was to perform a theatrical multimedia show. That
same year he began making a series of short films and documentaries. After becoming a full
member of Magnum Photos in 2001, Majoli covered the fall of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan,
and two years later the invasion of Iraq. He continues to document various conflicts worldwide for
Newsweek, the New York Times Magazine, Granta and National Geographic. Majoli, in collaboration with Thomas Dworzak, Paolo Pellegrin and Ilkka Uimonen, had an extremely successful exhibition and installation Off Broadway in New York in 2004, which travelled to France and Germany.
He then became involved in a project for the French Ministry of Culture entitled ‘BPS’, or ‘BioPosition System’, about the social transformation of the city of Marseilles. A recently completed
project, ‘Libera me’, is a reflection on the human condition. Alex Majoli lives and works in New
York and Milan.
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SICILY
DATE
APRIL 8 - 15
TUITION
1350 €
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GIORGIA FIORIO
Discover your Photographic Vision
to Become an Author
The workshop aims to discover how differently each of us can “see” what everybody simply
watch. Subsequently to unfold the process leading from the awareness of gaze to the “personal
vision” each photographer should possess. Anyone owning a cellular phone belongs a camera:
hence where is the difference between a photographer and a camera-owner…? To “make pictures” and being an author-photographer implies two different levels of intention: to be a photographer means to have a sort of inevitable personal commitment in the statement of one’s own
photographic expression. The seminar addresses those intending photography as a deep
engagement whereas the visual expression is vital and ultimately necessary – not photography as
an hobby or a mere commercial activity. It is about a change of speed in another dimension,
whereas every choice is important and whereas one continuously chooses. We shall analyze
these choices – singularly for each of You – and how your desire to express yourself, may converge
into your artistic sensitivity. To understand how – from simply taking pictures – one begins to construct meanings. Ultimately how does one reach consistency and a real coherency between
form and contents.. Bring anything you care to show, bring your best. Who enters this class should
be ready to be challenged, ready to hard work.
Giorgia Fiorio was born in Turin on July 23rd 1967. 1989/1990 she attended the International Center
of Photography in New York. She is an Independent photographer committed on long term
humanistic research projects. During the 1990/2000 decade she completed a research on
“closed” male communities in western society: from this work she published seven monographies
with the Frech publisher Editions Marval and an anthological book entitled Des Hommes (Ed.
Marval Paris 2003). Since 2000 she has pursued photographic research on “the inner language
between the individual the Sacred and Mystery and on Humanity’s Spiritual Heritage” entitled The
Gift.
Giorgia Fiorio book publications include: Soldati (1992); Des Russes (1993); Legio Patria Nostra
(1996), Ser Torero (1997), Box’In USA (1998), American Firemen (2000), Hommes de la Mer (2001),
Des Hommes (2003); Piedmon: a photographic definition (2004). In 2003 she has founded, in collaboration with Professor Gabriel Bauret, the Reflexions Masterclass: a long term seminar for young
authors.
She has hold photography seminars at TPW Toscana Photographic Workshops in Italy, at ICP
International Center of Photography in New York; at Nordic Light Photography Festival in Norway;
at Festival Exploraphoto, Salamanca Spain and, with Reflexions Masterclass during Thessaloniky
Photobiennale in Greece.
ww.giorgafiorio.com
CATEGORY
SICILY
DATE
APRIL 16 - 23
TUITION
1350 €
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ANTOINE D’AGATA
Till the End of the World
«What we see is not made up of what we are seeing but rather from what we are. »
Fernando Pessoa
I try to establish a state of nomadic worlds, partial and personal, systematic and instinctual, of
physical spaces and emotions where I am fully an actor. I avoid defining beforehand, what I am
about to photograph. The shots are taken randomly, according to chance meetings and circumstances. The choices made, considering all the possibilities, are subconscious. But the obsessions
remain constant: the streets, fear, obscurity, and the sexual act…. Not to mention perhaps, in the
end, the simple desire to exist. Beyond the subject, the lost souls and the nocturnal drifting, the
scenes of fellatio and of bodies in utter abandon, I seek to reveal some kind of division through
the mixture of bodies and feelings, to reveal fragments of society that escape from any analysis
and instant visualization of the event, but nonetheless, are its principal elements. The brutality of
the form, the intensity of the vision obligates us, still more than images that pretend to document,
to involve ourselves with the reality of what we are seeing. The sense of losing sight of the subject
may seem like a paradox in a documentary genre where I try to impose my subjective point of
view, in an autobiography borne from travels and from wandering. But the emotional strip tease,
which lets me enter into the pages of this intimate, photographic diary seems to carry me inevitably towards this vanishing point. The only photographs that truly exist are the « innocent » images. We find them in the family photo albums or in the police archives. To criticize in a coherent
manner, the dominant image actually demands from a photo that it is lucid in the midst of its
messy situation, from the experience between a glance and a good, hard look, the camera and
the unconscious, in its fundamentally tainted rapport with reality and fiction. This approach cannot conceive that within multiplicity, associating technique and practice, sometimes opposite
each other in their use of the photographic language, I seek to reveal the inherent contradictions
to the « use » of documentary photography, that should supposedly transcribe tangible reality
while at the same time, do nothing more than report a myriad of experiences.
Antoine D’Agata lives and works in Paris. He was born in Marseilles in 1961. From 1983 until 1993 he
lived in a number of foreign countries. He began his photographic studies at ICP in New York in
1990 with Nan Goldin and Larry Clark. From 1991-1992 he worked as an intern at Magnum in New
York. He went on hiatus from photography from 1993 until 1996. His book Mala Noche came out
in 1998 and sold out. In 2001 he won the Niépce Prize in Paris. In 2003 his book Insomnia came out.
In 2003 his project « 1001 Nights » was completed and was exhibited in Paris featuring his 1001 photos shot in Paris, Coln and Amsterdam.
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SICILY
DATE
APRIL 16 - 23
TUITION
1350 €
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ANTONIN KRATOCHVIL
Lost Village of Transylvania
The mind immediately thinks of gothic atmosphere, dark and foggy landscapes, mystery and,
above all, Dracula & Co!!!! The truth however is far from this and you can visit unusual and charming places unspoilt by mass tourism. We will explore villages founded by the Saxons in the XII’th
century. These villages, built to protect the region from invasions from the east, grew enormously
till the end of World War II, when people started to abandon them. Today relatively few people
remain, as witnesses of a long gone past, preserving traditions that have already disappeared in
most regions of eastern Europe. The aim of this workshop is to document the reality and its contrasts. We have been talking with Antonin Kratochvil for a long time about this workshop: Antonin
knows the area very well and considers it as one of the most interesting parts of Europe to photograph.
Our Centre will be Sighisoara, a city that is part of the UNESCO Heritage Found and one of the
best preserved medieval city in Europe. We will be photographing daily life in the nearby villages
with the help of local guides who have excellent local access.
Lodging and meals, except for dinner on the first and last night, are not included in the cost of
the workshop. However Sighisoara is not too expensive and we will give you a list of suggested
places to stay.
The workshop will be run in digital.
Antonin Kratochvil won numerous awards, grants and honorable mentions dating back to 1975.
The latest of these are the first place prizes at the 2002 World Press Photo Awards in the categories of general news and nature and the environment. The next is the 2004 grant from Aperture
publishing. In addition, Kratochvil's fifth book Vanishing has been published in 2005 and marked
another significant milestone for the craft to which he belongs. In 2001 he founded with other
photojournalists the agency VII.
www.antoninkratochvil.com
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TRAVEL
DATE
MAY 14 - 23
TUITION
1400 €
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SUMMER
WEEK 1
JULY 19 - 25
WEEK 2
JULY 26 - AUGUST 1
WEEK 3
AUGUST 2 - 8
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DAVID ALAN HARVEY
On the Road
On the road with David Alan Harvey!
This workshop will be about photographing a precise area, interpreting, with our photographs, the
essence of a place and its people.
We will move from village to village, between Val di Chiana and Val d’Orcia, stopping at cafés,
gas stations, farms, spas, getting to know the people who live there, listening to their talks and
photographing their daily life. Every day we will meet for group critique as well as one-to-one
meetings...and then…on the road again, at different times of the day, to capture the light and
the spirit of the place. At the end of the week, students will have a portfolio with fresh images of
the Tuscan Way of Life.
“Photography is not about buying the right lens, nor is it about knowing the right people. It is far
more challenging than that. It is about looking at oneself in the mirror sometimes and looking out
of the window some other time. Simplicity is always the most difficult thing to achieve. People
tend to make things complicated in a way that wastes energy. Energy, flowing naturally, makes
for the best art and daily life”
This class is for advanced photographers who want to learn on an extended essay or for a magazine or a personal book project.
David Alan Harvey’s work deals with the magic of everyday life. A member of Magnum, he has
travelled the world shooting more than 30 essays for National Geographic. His ongoing work in
the Spanish-speaking world recently brought him to Cuba. The result of these six months photographing this island spread out over a three year period lead to the publishing of several magazine articles as well as “Cuba”, a book that is a moving and intimate portrait of Cuba and its people. A show on Cuba was shown at Visa pour l’Image Festival in Perpignan, as well as in Miami,
Havana and New York, and is currently touring the U.S. and Europe. Harvey is currently at work on
two new stories for the National Geographic Magazine.
www.davidalnaharvey.com
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PEOPLE & PLACES
DATE
JULY 19 - 25
TUITION
1050 €
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STANLEY GREENE
War and Victims
It remains essential for journalists to scour the ground, unimpeded, using the only weapons we
know. Our cameras, notebooks and voices make us the unwelcome pests of aggressors around
the world. Witnesses are inconvenient. Yet as most of my colleagues will agree, countries such as
Irak, Chad, The Caucasus, and Chechnya, are becoming harder to cover. In the world of spot
news, publications don’t want to pay for long engagements in complicated zones because its
getting much harder to afford it. Authorities block access. And the lack of access, infrastructure
and personal security makes logistics a nightmare. Despite the odds, sometimes the effort can
make a difference, and those rare moments never cease to satisfy in a profession that is otherwise lonely, demanding and thankless. Journalism rewards you with long days and even longer
nights. There is no such thing as taking pictures from a place of safety, and you often pack your
feelings in a suitcase until you can return to ‘reality.’ Some colleagues living in this perpetual emotional yo-yo are able to maintain a relationship, money in the bank, and perhaps even their sanity. If you’re like the rest of us not born under that star, you never stop trying to find it. For the last
twenty years I have bore witness to long histories of invasions, mass migrations, conflicts, wars and
destructions. This course that I propose is a flying course to take somebody into a plane and push
them out and hope they land safely but to give them as much as informations as possible so they
can survive as they fall. The course it’s about photojournalism and the importance of those photocorrespondents that are passionate about shining the light in dark places. More than a mere
documentation of the darkness which exists in the world. Journalists today are like disaster tourists
going from one hot place to the next. It has never been my intention to be such a photographer.
I think it is better to build a full body of work which demonstrates the longevity of a working photojournalist, today and yesterday. I think that this should be taken into consideration when thinking to take this workshop.
Stanley Greene is one of the best working photographers today, according too Jean Francois
Leroy of Visa Pour L’Image and Christan Cauijolle of the Agence Vu; fellow photographers, press
editors, news agencies all recognize and admire the talent, passion, personal vision and commitment he puts in his photography. Age 56, Stanley was assistant to the famous photojournalist
Eugene Smith who dedicated his life to a cause, to “give something back “, and this is what drives Stanley Greene today in his workshops: he is trying to give something, to share what he has
learned and experienced. His workshops are more of a happening where he gives it all up for the
participants and that is what makes him and interesting teacher and his workshops exciting. In
2008 he won World Press Photo in the category General News.
www.noorimages.com
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DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
DATE
JULY 19 - 25
TUITION
1050 €
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KADIR VAN LOHUIZEN
Long Term Projects and
How to Make it Happen
Photography is such a great tool to tell a story. Words are sometimes necessary but not indispensable. If you work on a story a long time you actually understand what you want to tell and how
to show it. It requires a long breath and determination. Basically it starts with the fact that you
know what you want to tell and that you know it is a story which can be told visually. So how to
choose your subject? How to research? How to build contacts? How can I finance? The workshop
will not be a ready to go recipe, but it will generate ideas and inspiration. This is a workshop on
how to find stories, how to shoot them and propose to photo-editors. Before starting working on
a project we feel involved with, we have to have a close examination on its possible making and
on problems we can meet along the way, and more than anything decide if this story will be
powerful and speak out through the images. Each participant will concentrate on a story to
develop during the length of the workshop, as if it were personal project to propose to a magazine.
Kadir van Lohuizen has covered conflicts in Africa and elsewhere, but is probably best known for
his projects on seven rivers of the world and the diamond industry. He has received numerous prizes, including two World Press Photo awards and recently won Visa d’Or at Perpignan Visa pour
l’Image. He has twice been a World Press Photo Contest jury member, and has published four
photo books: the most recent is Diamond Matters. Kadir is based in Amsterdam and New York.
www.noorimages.com
CATEGORY
DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
DATE
JULY 19 - 25
TUITION
1050 €
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SALLY GALL
Tuscany Style:
a Differenyt View
Tuscany, a place of great beauty, has become over photographed, and everyone now recognizes its symbols of cypress tree, sunflowers, olives, and hilltop towns. How do you photograph this
cliché ridden area in a new way? How do you see through the compendium of Tuscan images
to find your own unique vision? Finally, how do you represent a specific life-style by photographing its landscape? In this course each student will take on a mini-project dealing with some
aspect of Tuscan (landscape and/or) culture, the goal is “ what do you want to say and how do
you want to say it “. On the first day of class we will spend the morning looking at a brief sampling of everyone’s previous work and after lunch we will head immediately “into the field” to
start photographing. Class will consist of field trips and critiques - lots of looking at each others
work in addition to the work of other contemporary photographers. This class is open to anyone
who has a good working knowledge of their camera and basic photo techniques - the emphasis will be on content and vision, not technique. As a photographer who has spent time over many
many years, photographing in this area, I have a great knowledge of the surroundings to share
with the class and I am always trying to solve the same problem - how to photograph the light
and heat and beauty and culture of Tuscany in a way that it surprising. In this class we will work
with many different subject matter; the class is not only about the landscape, but about everything the landscape contains, so students interested in making portraits, still-lives images, or any
kind of image, are welcome. Our goal is to photograph the life around us in a unique way.
Sally Gall is a fine art photographer who lives and works in New York City. She received a BFA
from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1978 and has numerous solo and group exhibitions ever
since. She has had two books published, The Water’s Edge, 1995, sensual landscapes concerning the edge where water and land meet, and Subterranea, 2001, images of the underground
world, the “twilight zone”, between light and darkness. Her most recent body of work “Crawl” is
about the world at our feet, the landscape at ground level.
www.sallygall.com
CATEGORY
LANDSCAPE & NATURE
DATE
JULY 19 - 25
TUITION
1050 €
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ARNO RAFAEL MINKKINEN
Eye of the Heart:
Seeing from inside Your Self
What happens inside your mind can happen inside a camera. It was the line that I wrote back in
the 1970s as an advertising copywriter that convinced me to put down the pen and pick up the
camera. In this workshop we will strive to expand the concept of seeing from within-taking the
vision you hold in your heart and mind and turning it over to the camera you hold in your hands.
The demands are tough yet the rewards are abundant, capable of astonishing even the home
folk. During the course of the workshop, you will become part of a lively, compassionate, and
savvy group of visual thinkers and creative souls. Every day the goal will be to discover how best
to nurture, strengthen, and expand your internal vision as you build a broad and memorable
body of personal work in photography.
Arno Rafel Minkkinen a Finnish American photographer, educator, curator, and writer.
He has had over two hundred one-person and group exhibitions at galleries and museums worldwide, including SAGA: The Journey of Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Thirty-Five Years of Photographs that
has traveled to Massachusetts, Eastern Europe, Finland, Italy, and Canada. His unmanipulated
self-portrait photographs can be seen in five monographs: Frostbite (Morgan & Morgan, 1978);
Waterline (Marval, Aperture, and Otava, 1994), Grand Prix du Livre at the 25th Rencontres d’Arles;
Body Land (Motta, Nathan, and the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997–1999); SAGA (Chronicle
Books, 2005), Special Jury Prize at the 2nd Lianzhou International Photography Festival in China;
and Homework: The Finnish Photographs, 1973 to 2008 (Like Publishing, Ltd., 2008). Minkkinen’s
works are in prominent museum and institutional collections worldwide: Museum of Modern Art in
New York; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Center for Creative Photography in Tucson; Musée d’Élysée
in Lausanne; Georges Pompidou Center in Paris; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris;
Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma in Helsinki; and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography.
He is Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Docent at the University of Art &
Design Helsinki, and graduate faculty at Maine Media College in Rockport, Maine. In 1992, the
Finnish government conferred knighthood with the First Class Order of the Lion medal. In 2006,
Minkkinen was awarded the Finnish State Art Prize in Photography.
www.arnorafaelminkkinen.org
CATEGORY
PERSONAL RESEARCH
DATE
JULY 19 - 25
TUITION
1050 €
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ANDERS PETERSEN
Surprised by the
Unpredictable
The word photography means so many different things depending on time, the social situation,
the public and specially who is behind the camera. I believe the only approach to your reality is
to illuminate it through yourself so whatever you take pictures of it has to be as close as self-portraits. That kind of platform is never riskless, but absolutely stimulating. And I want you to have fun,
having a good time not just looking for the Good picture but the believable picture showing yourself. To capture things and entering new rooms in your personality that seem to be valid the way
you se them. During this workshop I have only the simple wish that you get close to yourself, naked
and vulnerable, when meeting people, being surprised by the unpredictable. We will work everyday with assignments showing contacts but in the beginning I’m looking forward to see your personal portfolios. And of course I’m showing pictures myself. One week of personal photography.
Workshop in simple English. Prepare yourself; please be koko and thoroughly rested.
Anders Petersen has been involved in Swedish photography since the late 60’s. He is one of its
central figures, and no one else has made a stronger impact on a younger generation. Yet, he
hardly gives the impression of being a father figure. If anything, he is the eternal boy, traveling
through an alien wonderland with its secret love encounters and bewildering adult conflicts. His
pictures of the world out there somehow seem to be taken in a state of permanent amazement.
“Is this what it looks like”, he seems to utter as he points his camera at lovers in the night and at
people in the street - or at inmates in Swedish prisons and patrons in a Hamburg bar. His pictures
are intimate, and yet they disclose no all too unpleasant details concerning the people involved.
The photographs are taken by the subjects’ consent and with a probing, somewhat detached
eye. In the world of Anders Petersen, all things remain incomprehensible and strange - while still
indecently enticing. One of the secrets in Anders Petersen’s photography is his indication of a possible route of escape, a kind of alternative movement through the city, which could lead to a different story. A woman’s gaze into the camera turns into an unsettling invitation, often of the forbidden kind. So writes Peder Alton, a Swedish art critic. Anders Petersen´s first book, Café Lehmitz,
with pictures from a bar in Hamburg, was published in Germany (by Schirmer/Mosel) in 1978 and
in France (by Contrejour) the following year. In Sweden he has published 22 books.
CATEGORY
PERSONAL RESEARCH
www.zonezero.com
www.noorderlicht.com
DATE
JULY 19 - 25
TUITION
1050 €
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PHILIPPE PACHE
Sensuality of Light
The way in using light in photography is not “making lighting” but just looking at the light and thinking about what could result in your photographs. I will emphasize during our week together the
mystery of photography, about the paradox of recording reality with the camera, but at the
same time capturing a certain intangible mystery, a suggestion of something not seen that makes
a photograph interesting. During this week I would like to leave competition with others and with
yourselves behind. I would like you to just be who you are, what you feel, what you want to
express through photography. I would like each of you to arrive at the end of the week with one
image (or even better more than one) that truly demonstrates this “feeling” for you, together with
your portfolio, two to three images that you like a lot. (Not your own!). The idea is that I will ask you
to try to explain why you like these photographs and after that try to explain how the photograph
is made, and how and why the technique used in each image lends to it a certain emotion.
Please choose photographs where the lighting is especially important. The essential aim of this
workshop is that each of you will come back with a better awareness of light and all the ways we
can use it to express what we want in a photograph. In addition to the light, I would like you to
become more conscious of the final result that you are after before setting out to make an
image. I would like you to do also portraits: faces are the most mysterious part of a body, but also
you could do just images of atmosphere, with always the aim to express the emotion you would
like to render in the image with the light. I will ask also to each of you to do a self-portrait to
express: ”Me in Tuscany”. A way to express your feeling being there during this week, far or not
from your home, far from your usual life. Doing a self-portrait is a good way to push you to express
yourself sincerely.
Philippe Pache was born 1961 in Lausanne, Switzerland.
Education 1978-1982 School of Applied Arts of Vevey, Switzerland. Free-lance photographer since
1982. Since 1982, many solo and group exhibitions in Institutions and Museums like Houston Center
for Photography, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of photography,
Bibliothèque Nationale of Paris, Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Oriental Gallery, Peking, Cina…
Many solo exhibitions and many works is in many private and public collections. Professional
works also for magazines and advertising and photographer for the ballet, for Bejart Ballet
Lausanne (1992 - 2001) and for the Prix de Lausanne (internationa contest dor young dancers) as
official photographer since 1993.
www.philippepache.com
CATEGORY
PORTRAIT, NUDE & FIGURE
DATE
JULY 19 - 25
TUITION
1200 €
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GIANLUCA COLLA
The Digital Workflow:
RGB Unrevealed
This is a workshop about using digital photography for its real purpose: creating better images. Too
often we get trapped into digital techniques and forget about our photographs.
It is a hands-on class, where we will work hard, will test and experiment the newest digital equipment (printers, professional monitors, calibration and visualization systems).
The workshop consist of two parts:
* in the first one, we will analyze all the processes for the correct preparation of a file – software tools, Photoshop, blending mode, channels, levels, noise-reduction, sharpening ... , in fewer
words, the best way to work a file (there will be a lot of surprises...)
* in the second part we will analize the output of our images, in low-resolution (web, cdrom,
dvd, slide-shows) and in high-resolution, with particular stress on printing techniques, evaluating
the most recent combination of inks/papers.
It is a technical workshop, in the traditional sense: consider it a developing and printing class of
the third millennium ...
The digital skills brought Gianluca Colla on assignment on many different fields, including collaborations as digital master with National Geographic, World Gold Council, Blockbuster, UBS. Recently
he has been photographing in Japan for a project on longevity for National Geographic on Line.
He is currently working on several personal projects.
www.gianlucacolla.it
CATEGORY
PHOTO TECHNIQUES
DATE
JULY 19 - 25
TUITION
1050 €
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BOB SACHA
Multimedia Story-Telling
Our first stories were spoken. Soon we learned to write, and then we learned to create visual stories by making photographs. Now technology has closed the circle, allowing us to easily add the
power of sound and voices combined with text, images and motion to create more powerful stories in multimedia. Using a still camera and digital recorder, we can now easily create and share
stories that we once only imagined. The secret of multimedia is that we experience the world first
with our ears and then with our eyes. Add to that digital technology and the web which has
made our lives faster but it has also opened up amazing and revolutionary opportunities to tell
stories in new ways. In this class we will learn how to use the power of sound to amplify the impact
of our images and stories, to give them depth and texture and resonance. The power of the still
image is still the key, but we’ll learn how to combine images, sound, motion and text together to
increase the impact of our still photography and to create a new kind of story that we can share
online. Each person will record, photograph and create at least two short multimedia presentations in the class. We’ll start by concentrating on sound: what kind of recorder and microphone
to use, how to listen for for great sound, how to record “clean” sound. how to conduct an interview with a person, what makes a powerful audio track, and finally how to edit our sound. We’ll
record sounds and interviews and practice editing them every day. We’ll also learn how to mix
sound and music together. Next we’ll talk about making photographs for multimedia. We’ll talk
about how to deliver a number of different kinds of images for a multimedia piece. We’ll talk
about the types of images that work well in multimedia, about editing and sequencing and software programs that allow us to combine still images and audio.
Bob Sacha has shot around the world. For more than 25 years, he has produced in-depth photo
essays, portraits and covers for National Geographic, Life, Time and Fortune, among dozens of
other national and international publications. Versatile and always curious, he has explored subjects ranging from American presidents to China’s environmental impact, Kolkata tea stands to
revolutions in mapping. He photographed the first all-digital around-the-world assignment for
National Geographic Magazine, the cover story “Caffeine.” He has received many international
awards, including the Alfred Eisenstaedt Award for Magazine Photography, Pictures of the Year
and NPPA awards. Sacha’s photographs have been widely exhibited and are held in several private collections both in Europe and the United States. In December 2007, Sacha joined the
Webby and Emmy Award winning multimedia production studio MediaStorm.org in NYC.
www.bobsacha.com
CATEGORY
PEOPLE & PLACES
DATE
JUL 26 - AUG 1
TUITION
1050 €
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ANTONIN KRATOCHVIL
Portrait on the Edge of Light
It will not be a workshop on traditional portrait. Antonin will show how, even in the difficult art of
portraiture, is possible to show one personal and unique style and interpretation. His photographs
of people - celebrities or common people - have made him world famous.
You will have to be ready to throw away most of your traditional ideas. Antonin’s images go
beyond document, they speak of emotions and states of mind, both of the photographer and
the person photographed.
Kratochvil won numerous awards, grants and honorable mentions dating back to 1975. The latest
of these are the first place prizes at the 2002 World Press Photo Awards in the categories of general news and nature and the environment. The next is the 2004 grant from Aperture publishing. In
addition, Kratochvil’s fifth book Vanishing has been published in 2005 and marked another significant milestone for the craft to which he belongs. In 2001 he founded with other photojournalists
the agency VII.
www.antoninkratochvil.com
www.VIIphoto.com
CATEGORY
DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
DATE
JULY 26 - AUGUST 1
TUITION
1050 €
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ANDREA PISTOLESI
The Photo-Story
From Idea to Publishing
The photographic profession is a balanced combination between creativity, craft and commercial strategy. Making a reportage cannot be pure artistic exercise, but must take into consideration the needs of the person who will have to publish the final work. The visual language, the making and diffusion of the images change; the media have to adjust to all this, so even the creativity and productivity of the artist must evolve. Our workshop is dedicated to the philosophy of trying to find a visible compromise between the market needs and the work quality. First there is the
making of a photo story: the style, the contents, the ideation and definition of the assignments,
the making of complex projects; then, is the trip organisation, the photographic shoots, organisational methodology once on the field. In one word, the actual photographic work. Then the “boring” but necessary phase comes in: the digitalisation of the work intended both as “dark rooms”
work (on the computer) and as the preparation of images to be easily filed and ready for high
quality diffusion. This is the workflow, which has become an important moment in the life of the
photographer as means between the shooting and the publication. We will also dedicate much
attention to the methods of presentation and diffusion of the images. Finally the image markenting, the phase from which of a professional photographer’s survival depends upon: how to make
and present a first portfolio, how to mount and distribute a photo story, how to enter the “locked”
doors in Italy and abroad. There are no secrets, but obvious and hard methodologies which only
need to be focalised and encouraged: that’s our goal in this workshop. It will be the occasion to
look inside yourself, understand how much of our life you are willing to dedicate to this passion,
which direction to take trying to avoid useless deviations, and finally make photography your own
profession.
Born in Florence, Andrea Pistolesi studied geography at the local University. As as a result of his
ceaseless need to travel, he become a photoreporter specialized in human and environment
documentation. He continuously works for Italian and international magazines, such as Islands,
Travel and Leisure, Geo, Departures, Hemisphere, Gulliver, Gente Viaggi, Bell’Italia, Airone, Viajar,
Rutas del Mundo, and many more. His volumes on exotic destinations have been published
together with guides on major European touristic destinations. He is now making a series of books
on the major religions of the world edited by Touring Club Italiano. He has become particularly
known for his research on the use of light which he combines to a very personal composition of
his images. The approach to artistic photography has been a natural evolution of his professional growth. He has had personal shows both in Italy and abroad. He has participated with a personal show to the VII Biennale of Photography in Turin, Italy, and has gained, in 1998, the price for
first Italian at the Fuji European Press Award.
CATEGORY
PROFESSION & CAREER
www.pistolesiphoto.com
DATE
JULY 19 - 25
TUITION
1050 €
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SANDRO SANTIOLI
Light, Colour & Landscape
In this course we will spend a lot of time photographing the countryside in the territory around Val
d’Orcia. Starting early in the morning, or using the late afternoon light, we will explore a variety of
territories seeking sources of inspiration not only from the great landscapes, but also from the
smaller spaces. We will also shoot within the historic villages and towns looking to develop use of
natural light, composition, color and shadow. We will utilize different lenses and focal lengths
according to the type of photography (even macro lenses are welcome). I will accompany students every day to help solve technical problems and give suggestions and advice. We will
devote a large portion of time to critique of the work in progress from a technical, compositional
and aesthetic point of view.
Be prepared to wake up early, and do some walking…best shots are not from the back of the
car!!!!
Sandro Santioli was born and raised in Tuscany and still lives there today. He is one of the most
esteemed colour landscape photographers in Italy. His work appears in galleries and private collections, advertisements, magazines and calendars. Amongst his clients from the editing world,
such as Barnes & Noble, Rizzoli, Mondadori, he also works with magazines like Geo, Airone, Vogue
as well as companies and corporations such as Carapelli, Rosemount, Magli, Regione Toscana,
and Banche di Credito Cooperativo.
www.sandrosantioli.com
www.terraditoscana.com
CATEGORY
LANDSCAPE & NATURE
DATE
JULY 26 - AUGUST 1
TUITION
1050 €
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ERICA SHIRES
Art & Commerce:
Personal Reserach & Commercial Work
Are you having fun? I am always asking myself this because ultimately, that is why I got into photography. The idea that photography could be used as a way to communicate and earn a living came later, as my relationship with it deepened. It is necessary to think creatively when looking at ways to get work. In this information age, we are all bombarded with imagery. As photographers, the competition is fierce and many of the people who hire us are incredibly visually
sophisticated. The one thing that guarantees a photographer notice is to have a genuine and
articulate point of view. Only show the work you love to a client because that is the work you will
get hired to do. Tell me, what do you see. This workshop is for commercial photographers who
would like to revamp their portfolio, and give more strength to their work in order to get more
focused assignments. It is also designed for young photographers with a strong personal vision
entering the business world, and that would like to keep and apply that vision while working in the
commercial field. Please bring portfolios/examples of your work to class. If you’d like, bring tear
sheets of commercial work that you feel transcends the typical or that you just love. I want to see
where you are coming from and what you are interested in.
Erica Shires is a New York based artist. At 34, she began a new career by moving to NYC to study
photography at Pratt Institute. She was selected as one of PDN’s “Top 30 Emerging Photographers
to Watch” in 2006.
She has photographed for such clients as the Ad Council, Kodak, Nike and Nivea and New York
Magazines. Shires’ personal work has been exhibited in New York, Paris and Blegium. She currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.
www.ericashires.com
CATEGORY
PERSONAL RESEARCH
DATE
JULY 26 - AUGUST 1
TUITION
1050 €
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PAUL ELLEDGE
The Creative Portrait:
Seeing Yourself in Others
What makes a creative work individual, unique, stylized and personal? What makes a photograph reflect deeper meanings than the surface of the print? What separates the great imagemakers from the average? What is in an image that makes that image have a life of it’s own? I
believe what makes an image have a life of it’s own is when it shares a personal point of view. I
believe that each person has a personal history, a personal point of view, and a unique life story.
Successful creators have tapped into that personal view from within one’s own life story. They
have found a way to shape the multifaceted world of their own mind into the two- dimensional
world of a photo print. These successful creators are not afraid to have a point of view of the
world and they have chosen to share that point of view in the photograph. This workshop is about
freeing one’s personal creative spirit from an internal feeling to the printed page. It is about living
more creatively through personal expression as well as about learning to be present in every
aspect of life. It is also about discovering, and unlocking one’s personal mysteries of the mind and
heart. Furthermore, this workshop is about having a clear opinion and learning to express that
opinion in a photograph. While working with the local Tuscan people, this workshop will help us to
learn to express our personal history in the photographic portrait. Through lectures, critiques,
demonstrations and assignments, we will learn to reflect our emotions, feelings, dreams, desire,
and our own personal mysteries in our photography. We will learn to take a portrait of someone
else, and create the image of that person as a portrait of ourselves. We will learn to free the endless list of creative ideas housed in our own minds, and place them in our work. This is a workshop
about possibilities and it will give the power and magic of photography to the creator.
Paul Elledge is a Chicago-based photographer and filmmaker whose clients include major advertising agencies, record companies, and corporations. He has been honored with numerous
national and international awards for work that melds photographic realism with painterly qualities of illustration. Paul has photographed many celebrities including AC/DC, Ashanti, Billy
Corgan, Ministry, Willie Nelson, Trent Reznor, Luciano Pavarotti, and Oprah Winfrey. His work has
appeared throughout the world in such publications as Audubon, Fast Company, Life, Men’s
Health, People, Rolling Stone, Time and Wired to name just a few. As well as his published book
Luna Bella Luna that is the chronicling the people of Vesale, Italy, Paul has also worked on several published book projects with Chef Charlie Trotter. In addition to photography, he has directed
several music videos and television commercials. Paul has been teaching at TPW since 2000.
www.paulelledge.com
CATEGORY
PORTRAIT, NUDE & FIGURE
DATE
JULY 26 - AUGUST 1
TUITION
1050 €
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CLAUDIO AMADEI
Lightning Techniques
Photography could not exist without light. This workshop will make you know-understand-dominate light in photography. Outdoor with natural light, indoor inventing one’s own light, we will mix
natural light and artificial light or the opposite, and we will make up new ways to lighten a scene.
For a portrait, a nude, a still-life an architectural shot alike, the light will be the reading point of our
Tuscany workshop.
We will shoot photographs both outdoor and in a photo studio equipped with professional flash
lights, hot- light, softboxes, projectors, ring lights; we will use all type of formats from the 20x36 to
the large format, also using Imacon digital back. Students will have the chance to produce a
photographic project and apply the lightning techniques learned during the week.
This workshop is not only a technical one, they will also learn how to use the photographic light in
a creative way, in order to make one’s image personal and interesting.
Claudio Amadei has worked as a photographer since 1984. He mostly produces still life images
destined for commercial publications. In 1995 he published his first book In Deep. In 1996 he discovered the HOLGA camera. In the year 2000 he shot a great Italian event, the famous race of vintage cars (Mille Miglia) through the lens of a HOLGA, publishing E’ Corsa, which is presented by
Grazia Neri and Maurizio Rebuzzini. Amadei had a show called HOLGA Mon Amour. He published
Carte du Ciel, in collaboration with RT Arte. He has just published a new book, Romagna.
www.cast-project.com
CATEGORY
PHOTO TECHNIQUES
DATE
JULY 26 - AUGUST 1
TUITION
1050 €
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OLIVIA ARTHUR
Finding a Voice
Photography is about much more than just taking pictures, it’s about showing people your way
of seeing the world, having something to say. This workshop will aim to help young photographers
think about the message they are giving or story they are trying to tell with their pictures.
What is it that motivates you, fascinates you? Are you telling a story that really matters to you? Try
to forget about what other people are doing and what is fashionable and follow your own
instincts. When you care about your story and become involved with your subjects, the feelings
will show through in your work. Over the course of the week I will help each photographer to think
about the direction they are taking and the issues they covering in their work. We will go through
the portfolios of each and find areas for them to develop during the workshop. We will also work
at getting you to photograph your way into a story, so that you get to the heart of what it is that
you find to be most important.
Olivia was born in London and grew up in the UK. She studied mathematics at Oxford University
and photojournalism at the London College of Printing. In 2003 she moved to Delhi to work as a
freelance photographer covering assignments around the Indian Subcontinent. In 2006 she was
invited for a one year residency with Fabrica in Italy, where she began work on ‘the middle-distance’, a project about the lives of young women along the border between Europe and Asia.
This work was exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris as part of a Fabrica group show and later
travelled to the Milan Triennial, the Shanghai Art Museum and the Shiodomeitalia Creative Center
in Tokyo. For the past two years she has continued to work on a long-term project about women
and the east-west cultural divide. This work has been supported by the Inge Morath Award from
Magnum, a Bursary from the National Media Museum and the OjodePez-PhotoEspana Award for
Human Values.
www.oliviaarthur.com
CATEGORY
PEOPLE & PLACES
DATE
AUGUST 2 - 8
TUITION
1050 €
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CHRISTOPHER ANDERSON
The Personal Vision
“The only thing about photography that really interests me is emotion or feeling. Beyond that it is
just a trick.”
Christopher Anderson
This class will explore the idea of photography (and in particular documentary photography or
even “photojournalism”) as a tool for expressing emotion rather than a reporting or a recording
of an event. I am interested in encouraging students to move away from the didactic and find
that compelling element in what they see that goes beyond the emulsion and the framing. The
class will comprise both portfolio reviews of student’s existing work as well as making pictures during the week and critiques of that work. But plenty of time will be given to discussion about working in the field and making the pictures that a photographer feels compelled to make.
Christopher Anderson was born in Canada in1970.
In 2000, he received the Robert Capa Gold Medal for his photographs of Haitians immigrants trying to sail to America. In 2001, he was awarded the Kodak Young Photographer Award for a story
about the young stone throwers in Gaza. That same year he also received the Visa d’Or at Visa
Pour l’Image in Perpignan, France for photographs of Afghan refugees in Pakistan. He has been
nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the New York Times in 2000. Four times he has been a finalist for
the W. Eugene Smith Fund for Documentary Photography. In 2005, he was named NPPA
Magazine Photographer of the Year and in 2003 he was runner up for both the Capa Gold Medal
and Magazine Photographer of the Year. For the past ten years, his documentary work has been
regularly featured in magazines around the world such as Newsweek, The New York Times
Magazine, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and National Geographic Magazine. More recently,
Christopher has been doing pioneering work with multi-media, producing interactive photo
essays for MagnumInMotion from Bolivia and Lebanon and is part of the Off Broadway exhibit
curated by Anderson and five other photographers. The exhibit has now appeared to critical
acclaim in New York, Arles, Berlin, Sao Paolo and Milan. Christopher is the author of one monograph, Nonfiction (DeMo 2003) and the co-author of two other titles WAR (Demo 2003) and
Rethink (DeMo 2002). He joined the VII agency in 2002 and became a Magnum nominee in 2005.
He is based in New York.
ww.magnumphotos.com
CATEGORY
DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY
DATE
AUGUST 2 - 8
TUITION
1050 €
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ED KASHI
Documentary Photography and
Story Telling in the Digital World
The digital age is giving documentary photographers extraordinary new ways to create and
organize your photographic projects. This one week workshop will show how to use the new digital workflow to extend the ability of the visual storyteller. The instructor will share examples of his
personal projects and work with National Geographic and other major publications to illustrate
the possibilities of photography as a source of passion, personal expression and communicative
power. He will discuss how you develop an idea, get access to your subject, determine your
objectives and present your work. The objective is to share the passions for photography and
inject that spirit into the students. Digital photography is just a new tool and what is most important is to understand the traditions of photography, storytelling, narrative and intimacy so we can
integrate these qualities into our work using the new tools at our disposal. The students will view
the instructor’s work, outlining the complete process of creating a project from beginning to end.
Each student would then be expected to work during the week for class discussion on how to
move their work forward.“My work has been profoundly effected by the political and social issues
of my time. I derive my passionate drive to commit significant time and energy to produce works
that are in-depth and personal. My desire is to report on, capture and tell the stories that I believe
will impact humanity in the short term and for decades to come”.
Ed Kashi is a photojournalist, filmmaker and educator dedicated to documenting the social and
political issues that define our times. A sensitive eye and an intimate relationship to his subjects are
the signatures of his work. Kashi’s complex imagery has been recognized for its compelling rendering of the human condition. Kashi’s images have been published and exhibited worldwide. His
innovative approach to photography and filmmaking produced the Iraqi Kurdistan Flipbook.
Using stills in a moving image format, this creative and thought-provoking form of visual storytelling
has been shown in many film festivals and as part of a series of exhibitions on the Iraq War at The
George Eastman House.
www.edkashi.com
CATEGORY
PROFESSION & CAREER
DATE
AUGUST 2 - 8
TUITION
1050 €
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HENRY HORENSTEIN
Country Roads of Tuscany
Tuscany is well known for its beauty and historical qualities. However, Tuscany is also a region
where people live, work, and carry on every day concerns. In this workshop we will explore the
every day Tuscany. The roads, the people, the stores, and other places that are aside from the
Tuscany that tourists know so well. To this end, we will take trips daily, exploring, stopping, and photographing towns and byways within an hour or two from the workshop. We will return to crit the
work and share our experiences. Technical and professional working issues also will be discussed,
as they come up.
Students should bring a portfolio with them at the beginning of the workshop, so we can all see
where we all have been and understand each student’s personal concerns.This will be the ideal
workshop for those who want to expand their photographic vision, and at the same time find an
answer to their technical questions. We will walk, photograph, and learn!!!!!
Born in New Bedford, MA, Henry Horenstein studied history at the University of Chicago, before
turning to photography. Horenstein earned his BFA and MFA from Rhode Island School of Design
(RISD) in 1971 and 1973 respectively, studying with Harry Callahan and Aaron Siskind. Horenstein’s
over 30 books include monographs (Humans, Creatures, Aquatics, Canine, and Racing Days)
and some of the most widely used instructional texts in the field (Black & White Photography,
Beyond Basic Photography, Photography, and Color Photography). Photographs from his book
Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music 1972-1981 were exhibited at the Smithsonian Museum of
American History in 2006 and The Museum of Rhode Island School of Design in 2007. His 2007/2008
solo show at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, Looking at Animals, is traveling internationally, as is Honky Tonk. Recent books include Close Relations (2007) and Animalia (2008). His current photographs, Show, on the worlds of burlesque, fetish, drag, and sideshow, will be published
next year. A professor at RISD, Horenstein lives and works in Boston,MA.
www.horenstein.com
CATEGORY
LANDSCAPE & NATURE
DATE
AUGUST 2 - 8
TUITION
1050 €
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LORENZO CASTORE
Define Your Territory
I don’t know where to begin from. I don’t think photography is something you can teach. I don’t
want to impose a method, nor a style. The most important thing is to be open about who you are
and what you want to say. I will not have a real schedule to offer you. My efforts will be to deconstruct the used and abused points of reference in photography and help you to confront with
yourself in a immediate way. Photographing will become a simple and direct way to be closer to
who and what you love, rather than a technical excuse to hide behind. A street, a wall, a story,
a person, ourselves, all those things together, whatever you like. I am against dividing photography into categories: for me documentary photography, social photography, personal photography, landscape, portraiture, etc do not mean a thing. What is important is the attention you pay
to what you do. Good photographs, are such because they are true, genuine. They become so
when you try to reach the truth that is inside you and follow your personal vision. Forget yourself,
put yourself in a uncomfortable situation, don’t be afraid, enjoy all these things. Well, these are
the things I keep repeating to myself every morning in front of the mirror.
Lorenzo Castore was born in 1973 in Florence and moved to Rome in 1981. He began his career
in photography in 1997, studying photography while still attending the University of Law. In 1999
he spent one year in New York. In the same year he travelled to India and exhibited at the Gallery
di Via Minerva in Rome. In 1999 he won the second edition of the “Dintorni dello Sguardo” Award.
He worked in Kosovo, India, New York (his exhibition, “Babylon, New York” was partially on 9/11),
Poland “Szczesc Boze” and Cuba “Paradiso”. He documented the construction of the Arcimboldi
Theater and of Pirelli’s Headquarters. His show “Paradiso” was exhibited at Grazia Neri Gallery in
Milan and at the VU Gallery in Paris. He also exhibited his work “Nero” at Torre Littoria in Carbonia,
at Palazzo Reale in Milan and in Cracow during the Month of Photography. Federico Motta published the book on this show. His photographs are a part of the collection of the Galleria
Nazionale di Arte Moderna in Rome. In 2005 he works in Germany, Italy, France, Poland and
England. His work is published in magazines such as Amica, Ventiquattro and Internazionale. In
2005 he has also won the Leica European Publishers’ Award for Photography. He is represented
internationally by VU agency and in Italy by Grazia Neri Agency.
CATEGORY
PERSONAL RESEARCH
DATE
AUGUST 2 - 8
TUITION
1050 €
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DOUG BEASLEY
Zen & the Art of Photography
Revitalize your photography while exploring your relationship to your subject, your camera and
yourself. Through photo exercises, assignments and daily field trips participants will learn to deepen their visual awareness while clarifying their approach, making their image making both more
personal and more meaningful. This workshop provides a unique opportunity to rethink our expectations of what it means to ‘see’. We’ll work on simplicity and on making more powerful photographs, supporting the notion that a photograph is not ‘taken’ but made. We become better
photographers by becoming more in touch with our inner selves and then use that awareness to
deepen our connection with our subject, whether it’s a person, place, or thing. We will also pay
attention to lighting, composition, depth-of-field and exposure issues. This workshop is a challenging invitation to redefine not only what is personally suitable subject matter but our whole
approach to photography. Inspiration will be sparked by a balance of conversation, meditation,
readings, poetry or whatever means necessary. Photographic exercises and assignments will be
site specific are concerned with both internal and external experience and growth. Most afternoons will be spent in the field with Doug on daily photo adventures. Open to all levels of experience but better suited for those looking to expand their creativity and vision.
Douglas Beasley’s personal vision explores the spiritual aspects of people and place and is concerned with how the sacred is recognized and expressed in everyday life. Photography is
Beasley’s response to the world around him as he attempts to represent his inner state through the
physical reality of the outer world, therefore expressing a mystical connection to the earth. Are
‘earth’ and ‘self ’ the same or are they separate identities? For Doug the answer is both. Past bodies of work have included ‘Sacred Sites of the Lakota’ in South Dakota, Indigenous Mayan worship in Guatemala, Shamanism in Peru and ‘Sacred Places’ around the world. These have been
funded by both McKnight Foundation and Jerome Foundation artists grants. Beasley’s work has
been exhibited internationally and is widely published in magazines such as The Sun, B&W, PDN
and PhotoVision. His first book: “Japan; A Nisei’s First Encounter,” published in 1999, overs insight
into his journey to his mother’s homeland. Recent projects include ‘Silent Witness: Genocide and
the Landscape’ which was commissioned by Minnesota Center for Photography and
‘Disappearing Green Space,’ funded by a McKnight Photography Fellowship in 2002. As founder
and director of Vision Quest Photo Workshops, Beasley provides photography workshops that
emphasize personal expression and creative vision. He also shoots various fine art based commercial assignments throughout the country and internationally. Douglas continues to explore the
notion of what is sacred in his photography and in his life.
www.douglasbeasley.com
CATEGORY
PERSONAL RESEARCH
DATE
AUGUST 2 - 8
TUITION
1050 €
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MARIANNA SANTONI
Advanced Photoshop for Photographers
We all want to create better images. Beginning seeing and using Photoshop with different eyes,
will help us solve the most varied problems. The first day of the course will be dedicated to clarifying crucial aspects of photographic workflows, above all focalizing on taking picture techniques, because some basic photograph rules in digital have changed and ignoring them can only
complicate life. In the following days the course will unroll in a very practical way developing a
different theme everyday in an absolute vertical way: from portraits to reportage, from still life to
fashion all the way to photography as an artistic expression. Part of the lesson will be carried out
taking pictures and part in class, where we will manage and examine images with Photoshop and
Lightroom exploring colours, as well as black and white, but also experimental elaborations, innovative and tendency. The day will finish with the critical analysis of the projects made. The students must have their own cameras (possibly digital) and a portfolio on CD of 5-20 works already
done (with the possibility of critical comparison between the original picture and the elaborated
one). It is suggested to also bring a CD containing cases of post-production in high resolution particularly difficult and characterized by problems that seen unsolvable. They will be used as case
studies during the course.
Born in Foligno (Perugia) in 1978, Marianna Santoni got to photography and Photoshop through
a more cultural than technical path, after her university studies dedicated to visual anthropology
and years of dedication to art, dance and theatre. Her belief is that what is learnt from courses
must not represent an arrival point, but only a new marvellous and stimulating departure point. As
a Adobe Guru for digital imaging, Marianna Santoni is consultant and official speaker for Adobe
Italia. She is also a beta tester for the development team of Adobe software. She received from
Adobe Italia the recognition as “Best Adobe Guru” for her contagious passion and for her commitment in research and divulgation of her knowledge on Adobe Photoshop and Adobe
Photoshop Lightroom. Among the other things she is the official Italian speaker and testimonial for
Wacom, leader company throughout the world of professional graphic tables. As photographer
she publishes editorials and advertising campaigns on national, European and American newspapers. She is also consultant and trainer in the ambit of digital imaging for publishing houses,
photograph studios and advertising agencies: from taking the photograph, to post-production,
to record keeping.
CATEGORY
PHOTO TECHNIQUES
DATE
AUGUST 2 - 8
TUITION
1050 €
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AUTUMN
FOCUS ON
MONFERRATO
MASTERCLASS
SEPTEMBER 23 - OCTOBER 3
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COSTIGLIOLE D’ASTI
SEPTEMBER 23 - OCTOBER 3
We have been running a project called FOCUS ON MONFERRATO since 2004 in Piemonte, north
of Italy (the area around Torino). During three weeks students of schools of photography from all
over the world, selected by us, have been invited to come and follow 1-2 workshops with experienced masters.
The final goal of the operation has been to let young photographer work on very definite field
(Piemonte and its daily life) and produce material that illustrates the area.
In the last three years we had 70 students, with teachers such as Stanley Greene, Bob Sacha,
Kadir van Lohuizen, Kent Kobersteen, Sarah Harbutt, Andrea Pistolesi and Ivo Saglietti.
For the 2008 edition we have selected participants among young photographers from photographic agencies. We know that very often agencies have young photographers that apply to
be part of them, and who gravitate around the agency before becoming members or associated.
These are usually very talented photographers, waiting for more inputs about their career and are
be the ideal participants to this Masterclass.
The mission of the project is to give these photographers a way to confront with the “real” world
in terms of an assignment. The assignments will be to document different sides of life in Piemonte.
This will be the Masterclass second year, we are planning, in a couple of years, to make it grow
and let it become an important annual point of reference for photographers and agencies.
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ALEXANDRA BOULAT
Scholarship
To honor the memory of Alexandra Boulat, who taught at TPW in these last years, TPW
has created a special scholarship. For the second year, we offer in the possibility to
attend a workshop in Tuscany for free (included room and board - not including travel
expenses) and work under the guidance of master photographers.
The scholarship will be given to a young photojournalist, male or female, under 35 year
old.
To apply for this scholarship send a cd to
TPW
P.O.Box 931 Bologna Centrale, 40124 Bologna, Italy
within the 30 of April 2009, with 1 to 3 photojournalistic projects, each of 15 to 25 images
(size 100 dpi, long size 1200) , your personal data, cv, explanatory note for the projects
and captions.
Please send us only regular mail, not express courier, because P.O. Box does not accept
it.
TPW will make a first selection of best works and made the final selection with VII.
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PRACTICAL INFORMATION
SUMMER WORKSHOP IN TUSCANY
WEEKLY SCHEDULE
The pace of the week varies tremendously according to each workshop as we leave great freedom to our teachers in their lectures, shooting and editing schedule: nonetheless there are some
fixed appointments that recur.
Sunday
4 to 6 p.m. arrival and registration
6 p.m. meeting with students and teachers
7.30 p.m. welcome and orientation
8.30 p.m. inaugural dinner
Weekdays
8.30 to 9.30 a.m. Breakfast (Monday/Saturday)
1 to 2 p.m. Lunch (Monday/Friday)
8.30 p.m. Dinner (Monday/Friday)
10.00 p.m. Teachers’ slide shows (Monday/Thursday)
Friday
9.00 p.m. Dinner and slideshow of the students’ work of the week, followed by Final Party.
Saturday
Morning: last meeting with the teachers to review some last theoretical and practical points, discuss and suggest possible future professional projects. The workshop is over at noon to allow the
staff to get everything ready for the following week.
10 a.m. check out from your room
WHERE
It is suggested, when possible, to come by car. For some workshops it is better to be independent
and in general a car could be useful to explore the surrounding area.
TRAIN
The closest station is Chiusi, on the line Milan/Naples. From there, we can arrange a free pick up
service on Sunday afternoon between 3 and 4. If you arrive at a different time, the taxi cost is
around € 50. For train schedules, please consult the website www.trenitalia.com.
CAR
For those driving from North, the exit is Firenze Certosa on A1, then take highway Firenze- Rome
and exit at VAL DI CHIANA
Take direction to Siena – Pienza. Pass Pienza (2 KM direction San Quirico) and you will find a white
road on your right, leading to Sant’Anna in Camprena (brown sign). After 4,5 km. you will find the
enterance to the Monastery on your left, a road with cypress trees on both sides. There is a parking space where you can leave the car, walk down the alley and you will find the main door on
your left.
From South, exit Chiusi, following the direction Chianciano – Montepuciano – Pienza - Siena - and
then as above.
PLANE
The closest and most practical airport is the one of Florence. From there you can easily reach the
train station by bus and then follow the train itinerary (see above). We are about 90 minutes
away from the airport.
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You can also take a taxi from the airport, or order a car service. Car service is around € 150, taxi
can be more expensive.
WHEN TO ARRIVE
You should arrive BETWEEN 4 AND 6 P.M. on SUNDAY: that will give you time to check into your
room, relax and be ready for the first meeting at 6 p.m. where you will meet your teacher and fellow students.
WHEN TO LEAVE
The one-week workshops end at noon on Saturday. Except for the students staying for more than
one week, all students are required to check out from their room by 10 am.
HOUSINGing - Alloggi
HOUSING
Our new center is the Monastery of Sant’Anna in Camprena. It was build in the 14th century, and
became famous 10 years ago where most of the scenes of the oscar award winner film “The
English Patient” were shot.
It is an amzing building, with room to accomodate most of the students, teachers and TPW’s
team. Rooms are very simple, some with shared bathrooms and some with private bathroom.
At the moment of enrollment you have to tell us which kind of accomodation you would prefer.
Rooms will be assigned to the first ones to enrol. In case you prefer independent hotel accomodation in Pienza or San Quirico or Montepulciano, within 15/20 minutes, please let us know and
we can either give you a list of places to stay or you can book through us.
For those students that are going to stay for two weeks or more, the night between the workshops
is included in the tuition.
Meals – Pasti
MEALS
All of our students and teachers go home with fond memories not only of our landscapes, beautiful colours, friendly people and great experience, but also of our food and wine that freely flows!
Meals are an important communal moment of the life at TPW to relax, exchange opinions and
ideas with students and teachers of other courses, etc. We always eat together, the meal plan
includes all meals from dinner on Sunday to breakfast on the following Saturday. The food is
hearty and savoury traditional Tuscan country food. It is possible, upon request on enrolment, to
have vegetarian meals. Wine and mineral water are provided free of charge. For those staying
for more than one week, Saturday’s lunch and dinner are not included in the meal plan. Sunday
brakfast is included.
Lab Fee - Quota laboratorio
LAB FEE
During the workshops almost all the students are using digital, but if somebody prefer to use film,
these are the lab costs. Still, we strongly encourage participants to use digital: film processing takes
longer and is not possible to have B&W film processed.
These you will pay at the end of the week.
Colour Transparencies: 135/36 each €8 (processing colour transparencies will take 2/3 days )
Colour Negative: 135/36 with 7x10 cm prints, costs each € 10
We will not charge digital lab fee to those students who are technically self-sufficient, who bring
with them everything needed for digital editing (cards and card-readers, laptop, software, blank
CDs and DVDs)
For those who prefer to use our facilities, the fee is € 50, including 5 CD; 1 DVD; 8 digital prints A5 format and assistance.
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INTERNET
There is no Internet connection at the Monastery, but you can find Internet Cafè in Pienza and
Montepulciano
Registration - Iscrizione
REGISTRATION
We limit our workshops to 14 students per class in order to keep the intimate feeling that our workshops are renown for, and to allow each student to have more individual time with the teacher.
Workshops taught by two instructors can be larger in which case it is specified in the course description.We have no registration deadline but because of the small size of the classes it is better to register as soon as one has decided as the courses tend to get filled up quickly.
For your reservation to be effective you must send a deposit of Euro 400 for each workshop as
down payment.
You can enrol:
- By e-mail with our on-line form;
- By phone to make a reservation that has to be followed by the registration form
it List - Lista d’attesa
WAIT LIST
When one of our courses fills up we will open a waiting list for people who want to try to get into
the class, if there are any last minute cancellation.You will be entered in the wait list once we receive your enrolment form, but you will not need to send a deposit, we will let you know what number you are on the list and will keep you updated on any openings.
ent - Pagamento
PAYMENT
To confirm your registration, you can either pay the deposit of Euro 400 or the total amount.
The balance is due 40 days before the beginning of your workshop.
Payment can be made:
- Through Credit Card (SSL secure system) using our enrolment form
- Wire transfer
rkshop Cancellation / Refunds - Cancellazione workshop / Rimborsi
WORKSHOP CANCELLATION/REFUNDS
When working with professional photographers it can happen that at the last minute an unalterable assignment forces them to cancel a workshop.Rarely we have to cancel a workshop because
we do not reach the minimum number of students to hold that class. In these cases the students
can choose either to be fully reimbursed or transferred to another course. If you decide to cancel
for any reason, we will reimburse all fees less Euro 80 for administrative expenses, if you notify your
cancellation at least 40 days before the starting date of the workshop.
After that time frame you will lose your down payment. There will be no refund of any fee for
withdrawing after the workshop has begun.
TPW is not responsible for reimbursement of travel expenses in case a workshop is cancelled. We
recommend that you buy refundable air tickets and/or travel insurance. Please check with your
travel agent.
TRANSFERTrasferimen
There will be no charge for transferring between workshops, as long as TPW is notified at least two
weeks in advance of the workshop start date. (No transfers can be made once the workshop has
started).
Discounts - Sconti
DISCOUNTS
We offer two types of discounts: TPW alumni can benefit of a 5% discount, students taking more
than one workshop during the same year will have a 10% discount on the second workshop.
All discounts are applied on the tuition cost only.
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WHAT TO BRING
Photographic equipment you normally use, make sure that it is in perfect working condition (there
are no nearby camera repair shops), some classes might need a tripod or a handheld light meter.
A selection of your work for the first meeting with your teacher and the other students is essential.
This will be very useful to the instructor in order to evaluate your photographic level and so that
you will be able to see the steps you have made by the end of the workshop.
IMPORTANT
• It is useful to bring a lens cleaning kit, we work in the country and it is a good habit to keep your
equipment clean to avoid dust problems.
• Note pads, tape recorder if you want to record your classes, are also useful.
• We suggest that you bring your own laptop: you will have the independence to work on your files
without having to wait for our computers to be available, and at the same time you will have the
possibility to connect to our scanners and printers.
We used to give advise on which clothes to bring based on the summer weather, but now the climate is so unpredictable... It is usually quite hot, but windy during the day, and cooler at night,
while we have dinner and while we assist at slide shows.
anguage - Lingua
LANGUAGE
All courses with a few exceptions are held in English. Translation will be guaranteed where needed
by the course assistant.
Insurance - Assicurazioni
INSURANCE
TPW is not liable for personal injuries or equipment damage during the workshop duration. The
signing of the enrolment form releases TPW from any liability. TPW is not responsible for reimbursement of travel expenses in case a workshop is cancelled. We recommend that you buy refundable air tickets and/or travel insurance. Please check with your travel agent.
ompanions - Accompagnatori
COMPANIONS
It is possible, and encouraged, to come with a companion, such as members of your family or
friends, who will not take active part to the workshop. In that case, their cost will only be for room
and board.
There is no risk to be bored: your companion can use the week to visit the art cities nearby, or take
walks or bike rides, tennis, swimming or horse riding.
You might also be interested in taking an Italian class! Please check www.scuolacamprena.it
Please let us know if you have any special request, and we will do our best to help you plan your
companion’s week.
Information - Informazioni
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FONDATORE E DIRETTORE – FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR
Carlo Roberti
UFFICIO STAMPA E ISCRIZIONI – PRESS OFFICE AND REGISTRATION
Margherita Cecchini
CONSULENTI PROGRAMMA – PROGRAM CONSULTANT
David Graham - Changing Ideas
Kent Kobersteen - Former Director of Photography of National Geographic
Jack Klein - Photographer
Grazia Neri - Grazia Neri Agency
Andrea Pistolesi - Photographer
COORDINATRICE PROGETTI SPECIALI
Daniela Machado de Freitas
PROGETTI SPECIALI Grazie a - SPECIAL PROJECTS thanks to
Masterclass Focus on Monferrato Lucia Finello
Wine Photo Fabio Balan, Diego Orlando
Fnac Valeria Moreschi
Passion & Profession Lello Piazza
TPW Factory
Andrea Dapueto
Anna Savini
Claudia Paladini
Diego Orlando
Cristina Melandri
Giuliano Berarducci
Isabella Rosa
Lucia Della Mattia
Marta Linfatti
Sarah Gigli
Virginia Roncaglione
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Tel/Fax: +39 051 644 0048
E-mail: [email protected]
Mail: P.O. Box 931 Bologna Centrale 40124 Bologna - Italy