Languages Of Commissioned Photography / 2021
Workshop with Mattia Balsamini
Languages of Commissioned Photography was a workshop focused on analyzing the background and methodologies underlying commissioned projects, held by Mattia Balsamini at PhMuseum Lab in Bologna on 6-20 February 2021.
- Where PhMuseum Lab, Via Paolo Fabbri, 10/2a, Bologna
- When 06 - 20 Feb 2021
- Language IItalian
- Contacts If you have any questions you can reach us at edu@phmuseum.com
The Workshop
The course aims to analyze the framework and the methodologies behind a commissioned story. Mattia will speak about his career from assistant to photographer, bringing specific examples of how to research and self-commissioned projects can simultaneously be the fuel to find a personal style and the opportunity to convey a vision to potential clients.
How it works
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06 - 20 Feb 2021 / €350
OpenThe course will develop in three phases. In the first meeting, participants will be exploring the background that leads to the creation of a commissioned story for an editorial/corporate client or personal project that requires a similar visual narrative. By showing the parallels between some case studies assigned for magazines or corporate on one hand, and personal works or artist residencies on the other, the intention of the course is to recognize the possible workspace between these two realities.
In the second meeting Mattia will analyze his approach to work – in the treatment of subjects, objects, places, stories, both from a conceptual point of view, through the study of examples of past publications in history, and from a technical one, with a strong focus on the use of cameras and light sources of light. Case studies of works created by the author will be also examined by proposing and testing practical techniques through the use of equipment normally used in the field.
To separate the first meetings from the final meeting, there will be two weeks in which participants will be asked to produce a short self-commissioned work starting from a set of guidelines proposed by the author. This process will thus make it possible to put into practice the approach to both content and technical research learned previously. The material produced by each of the participants will then be analyzed and discussed in the final meeting where together with Mattia we will work on an editing proposal.
At the end of the course Mattia will give one of the participants the opportunity to collaborate as an assistant for a day on the set of a commissioned project in the course of 2021.
Head professor
Mattia Balsamini
