At Studio 9 gallery Rome

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FInal Exhibition

Talking about photography

During the last lesson, which was quite eventful, you gained experience working with each other.

Aglaia and Leonardo, weren't only the “objects” of your shootings, but also the subjects. They not only exhibited themselves but I would say the offered themselves.

Not just simple puppets, they even in some ways directed the shooting.  This was the interesting thing.

As in a “game” between two people pulling a cord between themselves and creating as much tension as possible without breaking it, so photography allows in its action a growth of conscience of the self and the other.

In Italian the work of the photographer is called “servizio fotografico”. So very different in english where the expression used is “photoshoot”.

I have to say that in this case the italian expression is much closer to the sense that I love to give to the work of photographing.

The quality of the relationship between who photographs and who is being photographed is implicit  in the expression “Servizio”.

The photographer offers himself so that whoever is being photographed benefits. The photographer does not present himself  as the executioner of a “ritual”, but rather as the person who allows the subject to present themselves in such a way that their self awareness is increased. To observe yourself, to measure yourself, to acknowledge yourself and to know yourself.

That is why I like the expression “SERVIZIO fotografico”.

The expression “Shoot”,is surely more apt for a type of photography in which the photographer takes the aim; it has a very “military” ring to it.

Even Henry Cartier Bresson used to say that a photograph: “is to put in the same line of sight the mind, the eyes and the heart. A way of living”. An approach to the whole context that has certainly produced some masterpieces, but to which I personally feel remote.

Il vero - l’immaginario” The Real and the Unreal

Il vero - l’immaginario”       The Real and the Unreal  

A group of young people hunt for the right spot and the right instant, for the fleeting color awaiting their attention. They don't photograph what they see for what it is in itself, but rather they set into motion a change of meaning, pushing the objective toward the symbolic.

For the one who takes pictures, this is not a neutral process. But do neutral processes even exist for those who make works or objects of art?

Whatever the experience of the author, whatever the technique in use, and even when falling short of the status of art, the object produced is the product of a powerful, changeable subjectivity.

Thus John, photographing in color with the Nikon pinhole, shows us presences from outer space in the ancient city. (Literary precedents come to mind, such as Ennio Flaiano's Un marziano a Roma.) Emily indeed finds a flying saucer landing next to the Tevere.

Each of these young photographers has begun to understand that with a digital camera, or even with the slow procedure of the large-format view camera, or even more, with the pinhole camera, we can recharge reality with a metaphorical, even metaphysical sense.  Most of all, they have learned to respect the time needed for attentive observation, dedicating themselves to whatever it is they are observing, be it a plant, stone, or face, reproducing a reality that only superficially resembles the real, and often creating a truth that is objective and imaginative at the same time.

Photo exhibition by students of John Cabot University's July courses in photojournalism, digital and analog (pinhole) photography.

Professors Serafino Amato, Donald  Winslow,  and Jochem Schoneveld 

location of the exhibition: Studio 9

Via della Moretta
Direttore Patrizia Rufini

Monday, July 29, 6:30 p.m.

Class pinhole photos

Shakia's Photos

08/15/2013

Katie