Photographing Ideas.

A theoretical, technical, and practical journey to enhance your creativity through photography. The workshop combines theoretical and technical lessons with hands-on activities based on small challenges. Participants will create original photographs using their own cameras or mobile phones, working on their own ideas while using techniques shown during the lessons and that will help stimulate their creativity (hybrid photography, storytelling, creative portrait, photography and writing, Caravaggio's technique, use of mirrors, long exposure times, etc.). The goal is to use photography as a means of exploring both the external world and inner self, while also embracing playfulness and the importance of meaning and visual language.

LESSON DETAILS

26 March 2025 - AULA II (first floor)

• Photography as a tool for creativity: how to stimulate and enhance it
• Knowing how to see, hear, love + practical exercises
• The 3 most important things to know about light: hard light vs soft light, warm, cold and neutral light, the 5 main directions of light

2 April 2025 - AULA V (second floor)

• Photographic composition + practical exercises
• Techniques at the service of creativity: hybrid photography, storytelling, creative portrait, photography and writing, Caravaggio’s technique, use of mirrors, etc.

9 April 2025 - AULA V (second floor)

• Exposure time
• Freezing motion or light painting + practical exercises

7 May 2025 -AULA V (second floor)

• Artistic photography to express emotions and thoughts + viewing works by famous photographers
• Channelling one's energies or the story of how Guido learnt to play the trumpet
• Final challenge and deliveries for the last lesson

14 May 2025 - AULA III (first floor)

• Presentation of final projects and group discussion

Registrations are closed; the workshop is fully booked.

The workshop is held by Simone Martinetto

Simone Martinetto is a professional photographer, artist, director and teacher. He has displayed his works in about 70 exhibitions in museums and galleries in Europe and the United States. He has worked as a on-set photographer in about twenty films with renowned directors and actors, including Marco Bellocchio, Isabella Rossellini, Pierfrancesco Favino, Valerio Mastandrea, Giuliano Montaldo, Luca Marinelli, Alba Rohrwacher and the Manetti Bros. His first documentary as a director was screened in Piazza Maggiore in the important summer festival of the Cineteca di Bologna. He has won several important art and photography and in 2012, thanks to the ISCP Prize, he spent six months in New York as an artist-in-residence. Currently, he is an adjunct professor at the University of Bologna, where he teaches Photography and Communication of Food and holds the Technique and Photographic Workflow Workshop for the degree programmes in Fashion Studies and Fashion Culture and Practices. He has taught photography in many schools and institutions and had more than 3000 students ranging in age from 3 and 90 years old.