This workshop is designed to take your photography to the next level, breaking some traditional rules in learning, and stimulating the use of the right side of the brain. The goal is visual creativity, returning to observing reality with the disenchanted eyes of a child, in search of inspiration and intuition. And to discover the artist within us, to realize the perfect self-portrait.
- Features
- Authors
- Content
- Target
- Setting
- Modalities
- Reservations
- Time
- Costs
- Sponsorship and training credits
- Informations
Features
The workshop is based on innovative educational theories of Betty Edwards, in visual art, and the American photographer Minor White, in photography, aiming to represent yourself in a self-portrait as an effective way to start seeing what others are looking at, and to represent what is not seen.
Authors
Gabriel Rifilato (1955), a Roman journalist and photographer, is the author of this project together with the authoritative Image Factory of the magazine Roman Walks which includes the art historian Bruna Condoleo, the visual artist Floriana Cason, the photographer Roberto Scardoni and the journalist Virginia Rifilato. Permeated by magnetism and visual ambiguity, the photography of Gabriel Rifilato is nourished by a visionarity that enriches its exuberant creative vein with suggestive contents. A contamination of photographic aesthetics that borders on painting, theatrical scenography, literary narration, with the ambition to adhere to an experience of total art (Ars et Furor, Bruna Condoleo).
Content
The self-portrait “at the mirror” is organized with two meetings of 6 hours each and represents the first phase of the workshop (basic level) which, in its integral project, is completed by the second phase (advanced level) dedicated to the study of the self-portrait with “vanitas” (still life).
Target
The workshop is open to all photographers, both beginners and experts, who are interested in experimenting with new forms of visual creativity. It is also aimed at enthusiasts who are eager to know the ductility and expressive power of photographic media, without any technical or technological dogma. The aesthetic aspects analyzed during the workshop, such as the study of the composition and the final scene shot “at the mirror”, also allow participants to participate with advanced cameras and smartphones.
Setting
The workshop takes place on a weekend in early October, with a 12-hour programme, spread over 6 hours on Saturday (theory and exercises) and 6 hours on Sunday (shots and review). The self-portrait at the mirror takes place outdoors, with natural light, and is set on the beach of Fregene, at the Levante chiringuito (5 and 6 October 2024). The self-portrait with vanitas takes place in a studio on a weekend at the beginning of November, and takes place at the Albergo Etico in Rome, near Piazzale Flaminio (2/3 November 2024).
Modalities
- Welcome cocktail and breakfast included in participation fee
- Natural light in the beautiful setting of the chiringuito, on the beach of Fregene
- Introductory conversation by art historian Bruna Condoleo and film director Luca Verdone
- Reading of personal portfolio by the authors of the Image Factory
- Projection on large screen of works by great authors
- Workshop resources (tripods, accessories, mirrors, any additional cameras) provided by the Image Factory
- The workshop is based on the Guide to Creative Vision in Photography by Gabriel Rifilato, published by Ca’ Art Studio Creative Publishing
- Information booklet available for download from RomanWalks.org
- Publication of the works by participants, at the end of the workshop, in the online galleries of the magazine Roman Walks
- Certificate of participation, at the end of the workshop, by the magazine Roman Walks
- Limited number of participants (maximum 18)
Reservations
By 20th September 2024 at:
- – Levante (Lungomare di Levante 72 00054 Fregene),
- – On this website by clicking here, and then: A – view the workshop brochure on the Roman Walks digital newsstand B – click on the PRINT icon (bottom left) C – buy the workshop brochure (debit and credit cards, Google Pay, PayPal, bank transfer), including the workshop cost of The Creative Self-Portrait at the Mirror, at € 225
- – caartstudio.roma@gmail.com
- – +39.329.9534719
Time
- Saturday, October 5th, 2024: from 11.30am to 6.30pm
- Sunday, October 6th, 2024: from 11.30am to 6.30pm
Costs
- Workshop Creative Self-Portrait at the Mirror: € 225
- Workshop Creative Self-Portrait with Vanitas: € 225
- The two workshops (Mirror and Vanitas): € 350 (instead of € 450)
Sponsorship and training credits
The Creative Self-Portrait, like all Ca’ Art Studio Creative Publishing workshops, is sponsored and in collaboration with:
- ENIT (Agenzia Nazionale del Turismo)
- Roma Capitale
- Zetema
- Regione Lazio
- ADSI (Associazione Dimore Storiche Italiane)
- European Historic Houses (Bruxelles)
- Historic Houses (London)
- Historic Hotels of Europe (Dublin)
- Small Luxury Hotels of the World (London)
- Iconic Luxury Hotels (London)
- Associazione Botteghe Storiche di Roma
- Associazione Negozi Storici di Eccellenza di Roma
- Botteghe ed Attività Storiche di Firenze
- Albergo Etico (Rome)
- RGR Roscioli Hotels (Rome)
The workshops also award participants, on request, university-level training credits, recognized by fine arts academies such as:
- IED (Istituto Europeo di Design)
- ISIA Roma Design (Istituto Superiore per le Industrie Artistiche)
- Accademia Italiana (Rome and Florence)
- Temple University (Rome)
- UNINT (Università degli Studi Internazionali, Rome)
- Rome University of Fine Arts (Rome)
- Accademia Costume e Moda (Rome)
- Quasar Institute for Advanced Design (Rome)
Informations
- Ca’ Art Studio Creative Publishing
- caartstudio.roma@gmail.com | +39.329.9534719
