They are proof of the importance of the invention of Louis Daguerre and William Talbot, in the nineteenth century. There is hardly a tourist in London – or anywhere in the world – you do not walk around town with a camera or other device that takes the place of it, even just a little practical tablet . And so it is no surprise that in time to find “the perfect vacation”, many of the nearly 30 participants at the Portuguese Institute of Photography workshop have not been able to escape this image outsider to see the world through the filter technology that, after 175 years, almost became a part of us.
This Tuesday was the day her world, photography. It is estimated that every two minutes mankind today take as many photos that made the those early years, until 1900 was the fault of Kodak, which start in the next century democratized the camera, and the same Kodak that more later invented – and desaproveitou – digital photography. The path of two centuries, the photograph not only become universal, as defragged in zeros and ones, to fit on little cards of endless space where the challenge became to be able to do something that does not deserve the delete .
A will shoot better not be another in the crowd, explains the membership, increasingly, the activities that the Portuguese Institute of Photography has organized this worldwide day. And this time, in addition to the already traditional exercise of photographing the Port at dawn – which arises from the inescapable images of the bridges, the river, but also has the marks of a city punctuated by remnants of moved night, symbolized by the plastic cups littered the floor -. was asked a group to accept the challenge of finding “the perfect vacation”
I hardly would have to leave the premises of IPF, Rua da Vitória, visited by a friendly French couple minutes after enrollees being sent to their fate. Was to send them to the studio, this open day for family portraits, ask them a matching pose, and bam, job done. But nobody noticed. Outside, the photojournalist photographing people photographing the other camera in hand. Confused? It’s the world we become. Who does not have a chamber cast the first stone.
Streets below cangostas above, trainees returned there with his vision of the tourist. Some have looked the same as well, from the eyes with which they see the Port. And the color of these, and skin, is perceived as the various corners of this round planet seem to have discovered the “best European destination” this year. The Port is in fashion and seems to inspire good feelings, such a way that the outgoing Sara Rosas, 22, was able to put several couples in romantic poses, kiss here, yonder hug, overcoming one of the faults that the trainer Alexandre Almeida found in several works:. difficulty of approaching a stranger who want to shoot
The other defect is the attention of the executive led by Rui Moreira. The Port seems to have too many lampposts and tall buildings that end up appearing over many heads, ruining some images. And the only thing there will removing these elements of public space, or from the perspective of Alexandre Almeida, opting for another framework, which is cheaper for the public purse. “Photographed, photographed,” asked the photographer in the hope that some good ideas that came to him by the eyes may turn into projects. That tourism or tourists, is as good a topic as any other, and in a city where it is already difficult to hear speak Portuguese, there are many reasons to train.
For others, the workout begins by base. During the morning, Augusto da Eira in IPF directed a workshop of Pinhole, eternal technique that makes a shoe box, black coated inside with a small hole, a rudimentary camera. With the rooftops of the historic center and Gaia as landscape, students struggled to see the impression made by a few seconds of light that showed them a Port made from silhouettes. The Port will have been seen as one day, in the early days of photography, when they were far less tourists strolling the streets.
Exposure in Allies
Leveraging the World Day Photography of the Council of Porto opened throughout the day Axa Building, and the four patents exhibitions there until the end of the month: L’Imaginaire D’Aprés Nature , Henri Cartier-Bresson, Staging of Everyday , Troika Design and The Non Independent Study on Women . At the same time, the local authority, through PortoLazer, inaugurated the show Porto on Avenida , which resulted from a challenge to the townsfolk. They sent in two weeks about nearly a thousand photographs of Porto, current or former, in color or black and white. One hundred of these images are exposed in the central plate of the Allies, fixed a tubular PVC designed by the collective of artists 4points. A jury will choose the best and the author will win a digital photography course in IPF.
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