In the meetings, the participants will discuss issues important to the Latin-American photography community and these talks will serve as a springboard for the development of a joint project.

There will be four workshops with 20 participants each. They will all take place on June 16, 17 and 18, 2016 from 9:30 am to 12:30 pm and from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm, and on June 19, 2016 from 10:00 am to 1:00 pm.

Domesticities

with Renata Marquez and Wellington Cançado

Photo: Divulgação

In 2010, researchers Renata Marquez and Wellington Cançado published Domesticidades: Guia de Bolso. The book features images of domestic spaces found in the websites of real estate brokers in Belo Horizonte, state of Minas Gerais.

As an offshoot of the project that gave rise to the book, Marquez and Cançado propose a group research of the ways of living and the anonymous intimacies of Sao Paulo by exercising a remote ethnography on the boundary between public and private, reality and fiction.

The workshop is open to all interested in reflection and building spaces and everyday images: inhabitants, brokers, artists, architects, writers, photographers, designers, anthropologists, cartographers, curious amateurs, etc.

Renata Marquez and Wellington Cançado are professors of design and architecture at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG) and researchers of the Cosmópolis group. Publishers of the Piseagrama magazine, they are the authors of Espaços Colaterais (2008), Domesticidades: Guia de Bolso (2010), Atlas Ambulante (2011) and Escavar o Futuro (2014).


On Drawers and Photobooks: the Reinvention of Archives

with Isadora Brant and Martina Brant

Photo: Divulgação

Martina and Isadora Brant, from Vibrant publishing house, propose creating an archive-notebook of images and questions – a capsule for the future – in order to discuss the idea of heritage and what we prioritize to recall or forget by editing.

As per the proposition, each notebook will have a narrative of free choice, which may be the memory of a situation experienced, a fiction for the future or even an exercise recounting the history of humanity.

To build the notebook, each participant should bring images and documents to the sessions - magazines, newspapers, news, old or new photos and a notebook. The workshop is recommended to artists, photographers and those interested in the subject.

Vibrant

Vibrant is a publishing company of independent publications focused on visual arts and photography located in Sao Paulo. Created in 2014 by Martina and Isadora Brant, it has been in the main print fairs in Brazil and other countries, such as the New York Art Book Fair, in New York (United States), Libros Mutantes, in Madrid (Spain), and the Paris Photo, Paris (France). 

Martina Brant, born in Sao Paulo, is majored in graphic design and earned an MA in graphic branding & identity from the London College of Communication [of the University of the Arts London (UAL), in England]. In Sao Paulo, she worked for Future Brand agency. Today she is a member of the Enjoei website team in addition to developing projects for Vibrant.

Isadora Brant, born in Sao Paulo, is a photographer and visual artist. She has worked for Folha de S.Paulo newspaper since 2010 and today she is a member of the TV Folha team. She participated in editions of the Paraty em Foco Festival and group expositions. In 2012, Brant won the Instasampa competition promoted by Mostra São Paulo de Fotografia.


The Broomberg & Chanarin Experience

with Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin

Photo: Divulgação

In some countries, nature already has legal constitutional rights as much as people and institutions.

This workshop led by Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin will look into recent events as the starting point to explore the idea of visual evidence and how photography can be used as a powerful legal tool.

The participants will be challenged to find new ways to create images and work collaboratively.

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin are artists settled in the United Kingdom. Recipients of the Deutsche Börse prize in 2013 and the Infinity Award from The International Center of Photography (ICP) in 2014, they authored the photobooks The Holy Bible and Chicago. Their works can be found in the major world art galleries and collections, including Tate, in London (England), the Museum of Modern Art in New York - MoMA (United States) and Musée de l'Élysée, in Lausanne (Switzerland).


Archive and Political Heritage

with Felipe Nepomuceno and João Pina

Photo: Divulgação

Photographers João Pina and Felipe Nepomuceno propose to plunge into a Brazilian archive that needs digging out: the photographic records of violations of human rights, the political freedom and the freedom of expression.

The proposition of the workshop is to build the heritage and interpret episodes of the Brazilian recent history through photography, the appropriation of old images, of poetry and of thought, each one in its own way and using language itself.

Felipe Nepomuceno, born in Sao Paulo in 1975, is a photographer and fine artist. He studied photography at the Escola de Artes Visuais (EAV) Parque Lage, in Rio de Janeiro, and the New York School of Visual Arts, in New York (United States). He has made several short documentaries and directed the DVDs João Donato e Bud Shank - ao Vivo no Rio de Janeiro (2006) and Ney Matogrosso - Beijo Bandido ao Vivo (2010) and others. Currently he is directing the sixth season of the Sangue Latino series, aired by Canal Brasil.

João Pina, born in Lisbon, is a photographer. With a degree in photojournalism and documentary photography from the International Center of Photography (ICP), in New York (United States), his works have been published in The New York Times and El País newspapers and The New Yorker, Time Magazine and Newsweek magazines. In 2011, Pina won the Gold Lion Award of the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.