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The workshop we gave between Raúl Mirlo, Diego Ber Morocco and me, consisted of making the two groups of boys we work with a little more aware of their relationship with the images. In a time where we live flooded by images, the ones we receive, and the ones we produce, I think it is extremely powerful to have a historical notion of the evolution of the image and our perception of it.
Although in a different way, the three of us care a lot about this, and we believed that by joining, the workshop would become more dynamic and fuller of exercises that would question this relationship. Making a blueprint with them was like returning a little in time and recognizing a part of the photographic process that seems almost to be forgotten, such as the use of medicinal plants in everyday use. That is why we elaborate on a small catalog of plants with these properties in a blueprint.
Along the way, we encounter some obstacles, such as schools’ unemployment by unions and teenage apathy. Personally, it was an encounter with a reality that I am very far from at this moment in my life.
Despite this, which could lead to all things stop working, I was very happy to meet people like the director of Cobao and several of the students who really want to work and are open to new things.
It was also a great challenge to work with groups that had not personally enrolled in the workshop for interest but were assigned. I applaud Raúl Mirlo’s way of approaching the group and breaking the “ice,”from there, the practical part of the workshop that Diego and I gave was much better. Another advantage of working in a team.
I had never taught groups like these to cyanotype; it was amazing to see the faces of astonishment at a process, which is quite simple in everything, if we compare it with the complexity of everything a cell a phone camera does reach the screen. But seeing the photosensitive material work made us talk about light, chemical processes, composition, teamwork and especially about time, which was the main focus of the workshop. I have a tremendous desire to share what I know and learn more with groups like that; I hope to start teaching soon.
I am very happy to have met some very talented and creative students. I would love to see the face they will wear when they see their portrait of the last exercise that will come to them in a month, made with an analogous scroll, with a phrase that they wrote with the question “what would you say to yourself in a month? “
The workshop we gave between Raúl Mirlo, Diego Ber Morocco and me, consisted of making the two groups of boys we work with a little more aware of their relationship with the images. In a time where we live flooded by images, the ones we receive, and the ones we produce, I think it is extremely powerful to have a historical notion of the evolution of the image and our perception of it.
Although in a different way, the three of us care a lot about this, and we believed that by joining, the workshop would become more dynamic and fuller of exercises that would question this relationship. Making a blueprint with them was like returning a little in time and recognizing a part of the photographic process that seems almost to be forgotten, such as the use of medicinal plants in everyday use. That is why we elaborate on a small catalog of plants with these properties in a blueprint.
Along the way, we encounter some obstacles, such as schools’ unemployment by unions and teenage apathy. Personally, it was an encounter with a reality that I am very far from at this moment in my life.
Despite this, which could lead to all things stop working, I was very happy to meet people like the director of Cobao and several of the students who really want to work and are open to new things.
It was also a great challenge to work with groups that had not personally enrolled in the workshop for interest but were assigned. I applaud Raúl Mirlo’s way of approaching the group and breaking the “ice,”from there, the practical part of the workshop that Diego and I gave was much better. Another advantage of working in a team.
I had never taught groups like these to cyanotype; it was amazing to see the faces of astonishment at a process, which is quite simple in everything, if we compare it with the complexity of everything a cell a phone camera does reach the screen. But seeing the photosensitive material work made us talk about light, chemical processes, composition, teamwork and especially about time, which was the main focus of the workshop. I have a tremendous desire to share what I know and learn more with groups like that; I hope to start teaching soon.
I am very happy to have met some very talented and creative students. I would love to see the face they will wear when they see their portrait of the last exercise that will come to them in a month, made with an analogous scroll, with a phrase that they wrote with the question “what would you say to yourself in a month? “
