Emotional Panorama / 2020
Workshop with Caimi & Piccinni

Emotional Panorama was a workshop on editing as a creative tool held by Caimi & Piccinni at PhMuseum Lab, Bologna on 19-20 September 2020.

  • Where PhMuseum Lab, Via Paolo Fabbri, 10/2a, Bologna
  • When 19 - 20 Sept 2020
  • Language English
  • Positions 14
  • Contacts If you have any questions you can reach us at edu@phmuseum.com

The Workshop

The multiplication of possibilities offered by modern photography and the array of final media outlets are enormous. Celebrated duo Caimi & Piccinni will guide you through this multi-input/output scenario where creativity and stylistic awareness need to be carefully crafted in order to maintain close contact with personal identity and vision.

How it works

  • 19 - 20 Sept 2020 / €150

    During the first part of the workshop, Caimi & Piccinni will be showing their works explaining how they were conceived and carried out. They will then be working on the photographers’ projects to highlight strengths and weaknesses. The photographic approach will be refined in order to precisely outline the participants’ visual language, the source of personal inspiration, motivation and the crucial ability to connect the work with a rich inner emotional panorama.

    There will be identified images that work best and those that don't for each project and together elaborate the motivations. The process will help each participant to find further development opportunities for the work, eventually planning future shootings. During this phase, they will ask participants to bring all their material, including previously excluded images from the submitted selection.

    Each participant will develop solutions with the tutors in order to proceed in their project with a highly focused idea of what images - both already taken and to be taken - are needed for the project and how to obtain them, keeping a strong language coherence. Moreover, more effective strategies will be discussed in having an unfiltered, honest relationship with the subjects and the environment (both cultural and human) where the work is carried out.

    The second half of the workshop will be focused on the pure editing of the material. Editing intended as a creative tool for the existing material and a work-scheme for ongoing works, helping develop an overall project's pre-visualization. In this final phase, the use of editing for different outputs will also be discussed, finding tailor-made solutions depending on whether you have to produce a photobook, approach a magazine, create multimedia, or upload your portfolio on a website.

Head professor

Caimi & Piccinni

Jean-Marc Caimi and Valentina Piccinni collaborate since 2013 for documentary and personal photography projects. They focus on contemporary subject matters, with a particular attention on the human aspects of each story. Their works are regularly featured in the press and media worldwide: Der Spiegel, Politico, Le Monde, L’espresso, Internazionale, Wired, GQ, Newsweek, The Sunday Times and many others. They are recipients of several awards such as the 2020 PHmuseum Of Humanity Grant in the solo show category, the 2019 Sony World Photography Award in the category “Discovery”, the 2018 Istanbul photo book award, the 2016 Gomma Grant for best B&W documentary work. They are exhibited throughout Europe and Asia in galleries and festivals, such as Biennale Für Aktelle Fotogra e (Mannheim), Delhi Photo Festival, Lumix Festival (Hannover), Fotoleggendo, Phest, Voies Off. So far they published ve books including the trilogy on cities in transition comprising “Güle Güle” about Istanbul, “Forcella” focused on Naples and “RHOME”. "RHOME" was shortlisted at PHotoESPANA Best Photobook of the Year 2019. Güle Güle received a special mention at Kassel Dummy Book Award 2019 and was nalist at Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award in Arles and was shortlisted at Arles Author Book Award 2020 and Prix Nadar 2020.

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