Vincenzo De Caro
Yvonne De Rosa
Salvatore Matarazzo
Vincenzo De Caro
Smart Photography – the street in your pocket
In this workshop we will briefly examine some small and simple elements that will help us optimise smartphone photography in street photography.
Having it with you at all times is not the one and only advantage of this medium, which is now of fundamental importance for many internationally renowned street photographers and photojournalists. By going beyond point and shoot, through the study of software and hardware analysis, we will discover that the smartphone can give us emotions and satisfaction we never imagined.
We will conclude the workshop with a shooting in the streets of Anagni and an analysis of some RAW files in Lightroom.
€40 per person
Yvonne De Rosa
Photographer, connoisseur of the subject, founder and artistic director of the independent space Magazzini Fotografici in Naples . Her work reflects on the nature of the photographic medium and its use to narrate and mark time and memory.
‘From commissioning to authorial project’.
A meeting in which the topic of artistic commissioning and planning will be addressed.
Discover how to turn a work commissioned by others into an opportunity to give life to new artistic projects!
Yvonne De Rosa’s two books “To my mother” and
“Correspondences”, published by Nicolucci Editore, will also be presented on this occasion.
Special offer:
• Attend the talk: €30 (including a copy of the book, value €30)
• Personal portfolio reading: +€30 (including a copy of another book, value €35)
Total: €60 per person
Take advantage of this opportunity to receive valuable feedback on your work and take home two inspiring books!
Salvatore Matarazzo
In this workshop Salvatore will guide you through his personal vision of Street Photography that has made him known in the world panorama of photography, thanks to his unique and hard-to-label style. He will accompany you along the streets of your city explaining how, with thought and observation, you can find extraordinary things even in the most common everyday life.
And, without neglecting the human side, he will show you how he manages to approach strangers and photograph them, a process where so many factors come into play such as body language, empathy and the ability to adapt to any situation you may encounter on the street.
This part of the course is essential for the more “shy” photographers who decide to break the ice on the street and for those who are not afraid but nevertheless cannot approach people because they feel uncomfortable or too indiscreet.
The workshop programme also includes more technical parts, such as the use of flash in Street Photography and the various methods used by the members of the international Full Frontal Flash collective to make this artificial light a true creative tool, both during the day and at night and in any environment, open or closed.
Salvatore will also talk to you about portrait photography and Street Photography: the basics of Street Photography, street portraiture, composition and editing, how to develop a project and how to achieve your own precise and recognisable style.
Theoretical lecture:
- Photographing people
- Empathy and technique
- Composition in portraiture
- Breaking the rules
- The street and portraiture
- Hints and tips
- Street photography
- Main uses of flash
- Composition
- Technique
- The flash in street photography
- Creative uses of flash
Practical lesson
- learning to observe
- getting in tune with the street
- body language
- what and whom to photograph
- approaching people
- technical and creative uses of flash and camera
- self-control
- clichés to avoid
- decontextualisation
- planning
- developing a theme
- being original
The course is aimed at all those who want to break out of the common clichés of Street Photography and who want to develop their own effective and impactful language, which goes beyond the single shot and beyond a simple exercise in style.
With this course you will learn to look at your everyday life with new eyes, and lay the first foundations for finding your own style and realising an effective and impactful personal project.
Equipment needed:
-A camera with a flash shoe
-Slide flashes (any type or power)
-A Syncro Flash cable, or aTrigger or Wifi, to connect the camera to the flash
-Lenses from 24 or 28 mm
-A good supply of memory cards and batteries, both for the flash and the camera
-Comfortable shoes
-Avoid overly bulky bags
Total: €120 per person