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Get Your Things Together is a two-session workshop on photographic editing and curating to be held by PhMuseum at Condominio, Milan on March 23-24 and May 11-12.
Over the course of two weekends, Giuseppe Oliverio (PhMuseum Founding Director) and Camilla Marrese (PhMuseum Visual Editor) will share key principles on the development of a photographic project and its presentation in digital and physical formats. The participants' work will be a starting point for reflecting together on the dynamics of visual languages, and on design methods that help disseminating one’s artistic practice.
The first weekend will be dedicated to photo editing. The second will focus on curating, designing and producing an exhibition. Participants may join the entire program (€350) or decide to enroll in one of the two sessions (€230 or €190 Early Bird).
PhMuseum is a platform dedicated to visual language and its culture. Since 2012 it has supported a new generation of photographers thanks to its Grant Program, awarding artists such as Max Pinckers, Poulomi Basu, Jacob Aue Sobol, Diana Markosian, Alejandro Cartagena, Bieke Depoorter. Since 2017 PhMuseum founded its Education Program, offering individual sessions and masterclasses engaging more than 60 students from all over the world every year. In 2020 the multifunctional space of PhMuseum Lab was inaugurated in Bologna, focusing on exhibitions and workshops. In 2021 PhMuseum founded its International Photography Festival PhMuseum Days, through which exhibitions for artists such as Penelope Umbrico, Brea Souders, Alejandro Chaskielberg, Vasantha Yogananthan, Silvia Rosi, Felicity Hammond, and Andy Sewell have been curated and produced.
How can we shape relationships between images? How does the meaning of a photograph change based on its context? In this workshop, participants will focus on photographic editing, a process starting with the selection of a body of images and leading to the definition of a sequence. We will reflect together on the balance between ambiguity and the desire to stabilize meaning. We will work on rhythm and coherence, on the balance between repetition and progression, proceeding through both aesthetic and functional choices. Special attention will be paid to the practical needs of presentation, from the application for an award to the logics of a photobook.
Program and Goals
Over the course of the two days, we will alternate theoretical discussion with practical exercises that will help us develop an idea or a narrative through images. Progressively, we will set the stage for an in-depth analysis of the participants’ work. Each student will have the opportunity to present and discuss their project, receiving individual feedback from the tutors and activating a collective reflection on how to realize its expressive potential.
Requirements
Have one project or a coherent body of images (min. 15 max. 50). It is recommended to bring a computer with the selection of images, and to print them in small format. Please create a Miro account before starting the workshop.
Sign up by 8 March to access the Early Bird fee.
Apply nowBringing a project into physical space represents an opportunity to consolidate and expand its meanings. It is increasingly important for an artist to be able to be a curator of their work as well: to look at it from a design point of view, and to figure out how to decline it according to the needs of a context. In these two days we will look at curating as a set of techniques and methods to connect with an audience and make photography three-dimensional. We will navigate the variables of budget, materials and space, reflecting on how to create unconventional presentations that allow for the expression of an idea.
Program and Goals
We will analyze several case studies, presenting the tutors’ experience gained through the PhMuseum Lab exhibition space and the PhMuseum Days festival. The two days will be articulated through exercises of increasing complexity, where participants will get to simulate the curation of their own exhibition from design to communication. Together we will reflect on the different installation possibilities of their work, coming to articulate a proper exhibition proposal. At the end of the workshop everyone will have analyzed their work from different perspectives, laying the concrete foundations of an exhibition project.
Requirements
Have one project or a coherent body of images (min. 15 max. 50). It is recommended to bring a computer with Adobe Photoshop and/or Indesign installed. Please create a Miro account before starting the workshop.
Sign up by 24 April to access the Early Bird Fee.
Apply nowBy joining both sessions, you'll have the chance to work on your project through all the proposed phases.
Apply nowGiuseppe Oliverio (Bologna, 1985) is the founder and artistic director of PhMuseum and PhMuseum Days. Since 2012, he has led workshops in Brazil, Italy, and Saudi Arabia and he has been a juror of awards such as Lucie Photo Book Prize, Magenta Foundation's Flash Forward, Blow Up Press Book Award, LensCulture Critics' Choice, United Photo Industry The Fence, and Cortona - Happiness OnTheMove. He has worked as a portfolio reviewer at festivals such as Unseen, Photo Vogue Festival, Fotografia Europea, and Visa Pour L'Image. He has written for TIME magazine and L'Uomo Vogue.