This is a workshop to creatively explore the camera and its techniques.
Materials needed
✓ Cameras
✓ Mobile phones
✓ Laptop
✓ Projector (optional)
Proposed location
✓Indoors or outdoors. Possibility to go outside for taking photos.
Steps
1.
Participants are asked to describe to the group how they are feeling (10 min).
2.
Everyone should remember the building in which they live. This may be an apartment block or a semi-detached or a house with its own garden or terrace etc. Tell the participants: Now you are going to create a new house together made up of individual parts. Ask the participants to picture the building. Divide the building into as many people as there are in the group and try to choose a part. Everyone photographs the part that belongs to them but in the end we would like to have formed the whole building with or without its enviroment. Then all together as a team have to make a photo story or a photo evolution of the process. Here it is clarified that you do not allow anyone to interfere in the photo of the other. They can work together as photographers and creators of a work but not as two photographers (15 min).
3.
Then they take their cameras or cell phones and photograph what they may have in mind at the moment plus the directions of the group within the next 10 minutes.
4.
We return to the plenary and present the photos. We put all the images in the right order and participants begin to unfold their thoughts on them (40 min).
Closing up
- How was the experience?
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Talk about the process as a person and as a group (10′)
- Did you make space for the group members? Did you find space among the group?
Tips
✓
Kintsugi ( “golden repair” ),[1] is the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery by mending the areas of breakage with lacquer dusted or mixed with powdered gold, silver, or platinum; the method is similar to the maki-e technique. As a philosophy, it treats breakage and repair as part of the history of an object, rather than something to.
The facilitator should give the group the guidance to work on the final result, but the most important thing is to allow space for each member to work on their part.
