my classmates – This is the end!

Dear all, this is the last post about you.

Next posts will be about some pictures I took at TPW.

So, thank you all for this amazing experience: hope to hear from you soon!

my classmates – Manuela Brunner & Priscilla Pedone

This is the last post about my classmates.

I’d like to end with two girls: Manuela and Priscilla.

I loved the picture story shot by Priscilla: above all, the “dancing shadow” and the weird gestures of the actors (?).

I loved Manuela’s mildness and her will to stop working in a office and to make a twist in her life: become a photographer…

I need the same twist (and strength)!!!

Here some pictures…

Manuela and Priscilla outside a bar in Pienza.

Night of the final show: what a smile!

my classmates – I due “de Roma” (Two guys from Roma)

Now I want to talk about two guys from Italy, Fabrizio and Kim.

They’re from Rome: this is enough to describe them!

They’re often late for the afternoon critique but they’re so nice guys (also some pictures they shot) that nobody wanted to rebuke them, even Bob.

They’re talking about girls all the time: every girl in TPW seemed to be fine and worthy of interest!

I envy Kim for his age: he’s only 20 and he’s a lot of time to experiment and find his own way as photographer!

Here some pictures

Night of the final show (part 1): “De che ahò…”

Night of the final show (part 2): Kim has been surrounded by fine girls!

Fabrizio talking to the “model” of his picture story in a bar in Pienza.

my classmates – Wolfgang Fueter

After a break with reflections, another fine guy from TPW: Wolfgang.

It’s a swiss guy, who took some fine pictures of a piano player, and created a warm and intimate story.

I stress his swiss birth because I was rude with him at a dinner in TPW monastery (another consequence of drinking too wine?): he was a gentleman, only a smile.

So, I became his personal waiter in order to make him forgive my behaviour (with insufficent result, I think ).

Here some photos…

At work, before the afternoon critique.

Final show night: the same problem for all of us, wine!

my classmates – Alessia Cabib

And now… a woman!

Alessia was fascinating, a little bit mysterious, and a fine photographer.

I like photos shot by women: they always have different feeling and point of view when looking at things.

A quotation from Alessia’s thoughts:

“A camera is like an enabler of personal wishes and it takes you where you want to go. You can be close to power, to poverty, joy or desolation, its just a choice. And the way of living emotions and of seeing things always is reflected in the pictures you make”

Do you agree? I DO.

Finally, here comes Alessia …

A stolen photo when Fabrizio was shooting Alessia.

Night of the final show: what can a glass of wine do?

my classmates – Edoardo Luppari

And now… let’s talk about an italian classmate: Edoardo.

After a week together (breakfast, lunch, class, dinner) I feel he was looking for something, a photo, a story, a direction for his life and work.

He seemed not to be satisfied with his work… maybe I’m wrong, but this is what I felt.

I think instead his way of shooting the archeological excavation was feesh and new, and his photos of the mask and of the caterpillar are very good.

So, here is Eduardo…

Editing his photos before Bob’ critique.

Night of final show: his hand when trying to grab something to eat or drink…

Buona fortuna Eduardo!

my classmates – Stefan Gross

Here I am again!

After Ben I want to talk about Stefan, another nice guy from Germany.

He’s a german-german young photographer (you can see some pictures here)

Yes, he’s the other guy wandering in Val D’Orcia for one week, trying to find out things, places and people for our pictures stories.

Why “german-german”?

Because he was very precise, he was always on time (he was called “german time”), and his photos were very formal, with a great composition… different from Ben’s photos, more “italian-german”.

So, here some photos…

Stefan, Ben and Bob in our class during the afternoon critique.

With a glass of wine in the final show at TPW. It was a very special wine, from “Cinque Terre”, a beautiful place near La Spezia, in Italy.

my classmates – Benjamin Bartoli

I want to start with a nice guy from Germany, Benjamin Bartoli.

He’s an italian-german (or vice versa?) young photographer (aka “Signor Bartoli”, you can see some pictures here), he studies photography in Germany and also he’s a graphic designer!

He, his friend Stefan and I wandered in Val D’Orcia for one week, trying to find out things, places and people for our pictures stories.

It was challenging to take photos of the same subjects and then see our different points of view during the afternoon critique with Bob.

So, here the photos…

Bob and Ben, one night talking about the meaning of life.

Same night, Ben is trying to demonstrate how weird the meaning of life could be, sometimes.

I think I can call him “my friend”.

my classmates

Starting with this I’ll post a series of pictures of my classmates, a sort of “homage” to them all.

It was great to find them: everyone has contributed to make me grow as person and as photographer.

Looking at their photos I started to have new ideas, new points of view of the same things, places and people.

I feel I made a big jump forward living together them and our teacher: maybe it’s the most important goal I achieved in that week.

To be continued…

here I am

Last week I spent my holidays at the Tuscany Photographic Workshops (TPW, Val D’Orcia in Tuscany, Italy) , as a student in the Bob Sacha’s class: Spirit of People.

A class of ten students ranged from prof photographers to advanced amateurs. It was a great group and we worked long hours using our digital cameras, some piece of software and the most important photo tool…our souls.

In seven days, we wandered in some nice places (Pienza, San Quirico D’Orcia, Montalcino, …) photographing people and gestures, moods and feelings.

Every day Bob commented our pictures, and helped us editing and finishing them in order to find a Picture Story to output for the final show: in a very easy but powerful way.

My head must have been spinning but each picture got better and better, day by day.

So, I’d like to tell Bob a big “THANK YOU” with this blog: I’m going to publish a picture with some words as comment every time I can, like a journey in Tuscany and in my mind.

BUON VIAGGIO!

Bob is teaching and Wolfgang (one of the classmates) is trying to gather everything