from my classmates – Wolfgang Fueter

Another amazing movie by Wolfgang.

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from my classmates – Fabrizio Benigno

Here I am again with a nice work by Fabrizio.

Bob loves multimedia: so the TPW guys follow him!

Hope to see more works from you all.

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!

only pictures – Reflections

Just one little break.

In the workshop on TPW the goal was: ” learn how to take pictures of people”.

Landscapes, architectural photos, and whatever picture not related to people has been FORBIDDEN.

But I like taking pictures of things reflected by windows and mirrors: so a picture of a landscape reflected by a window is not a landscape picture!

Here some examples:

One view of Val D’Orcia I took from a small window nearby our classroom.

This one (too dark…) is a sunset from the window of my bathroom.

A reflection of a fresco through a small window of a tiny chapel close to the church of the monastery we lived in for a week.

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.