A REPORTAGE, which entails the precise documentation of facts and/or events that can be easily traced in their dimension of space and time, sometimes loses its fundamental component of NARRATION, something it should instead always keep alive.
Storytelling, for its part, does not bind its dimension to a mere documentation of facts but places its purpose in narrative. It does not require historical identification or geographical approval as it places its primary purpose in the reader’s emotionality and sensitivity.
Storytelling surpasses the simple concept of a series of photographs by commonality of theme or subject matter, and that of illustration by photographs itself, in that photographic storytelling has in its specificity the strength of interpenetrating photographs into one another, which, while retaining the meaning and narrative power of the individual image, retains and enhances its power of expression by the mere fact of connecting to the others in a structured narrative sequence.
What does it take to tell a story, and how do you focus on the daily to say to it through your own eyes, give it a body, time, and breath?
Goals
The Class “Reportage & Narration” by photojournalist Gabriele Orlini is an educational course aimed at creating an awareness and objective and subjective methods proper for creating a photographic narrative that differs from reportage in its different requirements of truth, objectivity, spontaneity, and facts.
It aims at the creation and research of ideas, the narrative construction of a story contained in a reportage, a trip, or even in a single portrait.
With exercises and practical activities, educating the eye in recognizing stories in order to tell the truth in the image, it will provide foundations of method-before form-for the ability to reason in narrative, from the creation of the idea to planning, from the writing of the subject to the creation of the story, from the photographic approach to the selection of “functional” images to the final representation.
The Class is aimed at preparing and realising a personal photographic storytelling project.
Structure
The Class “Reportage & Narration” consists of. four classes online of two hours each, and is developed in a constant sharing of dialogues and thoughts, allowing participants to develop their own path, according to individual inclinations.
From Creating an Idea to Defining a Subject, from Planning to Realization through Functional Selection for the purpose of Photographic Storytelling.
In the FIRST LESSON (April 30), we lay the groundwork between Reportage and Storytelling, including through the example of published work. We work on the creation of the Idea and its development with method exercises in order to train the ability and sensitivity to Storytelling, educating the gaze at the world around us.
The SECOND (May 7) and THIRD LESSON (May 14) continue with what has been learned in the previous meetings, expanding on the notions acquired with additional exercises and contexts. Each participant is called upon in the context of the “discussion” and, by their characteristics, is assigned a personal photographic storytelling project to be presented and discussed in the FOURTH LESSON (May 21).
Requirements and Calendar
- Open to all, at least a basic level of photography is required.
- An interest in fiction will make the lessons better assimilable.
- Classes of two hours each are conducted OnLine via Zoom© for 8 hours.
- Starting on 30 April, weekly, from 18:00 to 20:00
The most interesting papers, in line with the goals of DooG Reporter, will be considered for publication.
