Join my photographic Experiences. You don’t need expensive cameras and lenses, but curiosity and a sense of wonder that will help us to expand our comfort zone and learn more about the world and the people around us. Photography means to go on a journey of visual experiences, we are going to explore what is just down the road.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me for more information. I offer group and private Photography classes.

VISUAL LANGUAGE

I understand photography as a means of communication; a photograph as the physical outcome of something, a non-verbal language that expresses emotions, ideas, feelings, beauty, art and ourselves.

I my photography coursesI want to help you to discover your hidden motivation, your own symbolic language and your own source of creative thinking and intuitive knowing.
The camera will help us to see what is.

The Australian photographer, Toni Hewitt, quotes from the film “The Book Thief”, directed by Brian Percival. 

If your eyes could speak, what would they say?

We are going to ask questions like:

How do we see the invisible and how do we photograph it?
How do we photograph the wind?
Flowing water? Cold or heat?
How do we photograph emotions?
Love, hate, fear, curiosity and happiness? Maybe we can’t see the wind, but we can photograph the evidence of it.

When I walk alone with my camera, I am an observer, there is a lens between me and my subject, and it takes time to become intensely absorbed in my task. When I take the time to sit down, contemplate the scene, slow my breath and go from small beginnings, my focus gets more and more centered on what I see.

Often there are too many distractions, such as the question of what lens to shoot with, exposure, shutter speed, ISO - all the technical needs to express what I want to say. Sometimes it’s hard to really connect with my subject, and I’m very far from getting into the flow, the chatter in my mind is too loud, or I’m just overwhelmed by the things to be done or the scene in front of me. On a day like that I come home with some photos, but even if some of them are nice enough, they seem superficial to me.

There are other days when I experience the flow, the feeling of being just in the moment, connected with the physical world through my vision. I feel calm and positive, even refreshed after the photo session. It can happen when I travel, when I explore new places, landscapes, buildings, flora and fauna, when I’m alone on a walk, when I focus on creative people in their workshops or even in the smallest dark kitchen when I work with chefs. There is a simplicity that comes when I focus on what I’m seeing, when the technical problems are solved, and I can immerse myself in the subject. I can dedicate my full attention to observing and exploring with my camera. We call it “going with the flow”, when the internal chatter falls silent and we just connect to the physical world through our vision in a wakeful and relaxed state.

I didn’t know much about Zen when I was a young student and first read “The Cherries of Freedom” (Die Kirschen der Freiheit) by the German writer Alfred Andersch. In the passage below he recounts how he deserted from his army unit on their way to the Arno Line in 1944. His bicycle broke down and he waited until his comrades were out of sight, then took advantage of the situation to desert. After a long trek through the wild landscape of Tuscany, he could hear the sound of Allied tanks rolling down a distant road. But before surrendering to them, he settled down under a wild cherry tree in a hollow.

“The grass all around was soft and green in the evening light. I grabbed a branch and started picking the cherries. The hollow was like a room; the rolling of the tanks entered, but was muffled. They can wait, I thought. The time is mine for as long as I eat these cherries. I christened my cherries: 'ciliege diserte', the abandoned cherries, the deserter’s cherries, the wild desert cherries of my freedom. I ate a couple of handfuls. They tested fresh and sharp. 
From a moment of freedom - I say again: freedom can never last longer than a few breaths, but we live for it - from it alone we gain the hardening of consciousness that turns against fate and sets a new fate.”

This idea of gaining a sense of freedom from having a single point of concentration and an expanded, unconstructed awareness left a deep impression on me that lasts to this day.

Photography is a beautiful arena for creative people. We are attracted by the light that flows through our eyes into our soul.

The image we make is very much a part of who we are and how we approach the experiment. Jenn Mishra.

“There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.”
Ernst Haas

Each photo we take is part of us and we are part of each photograph that we take.

“The camera looks both ways: in picturing the subject, you are also picturing a part of yourself.”
Rick Sammon

You will learn how to see the light, the beauty around you, even if you don’t have your camera with you. Be curious, explore and discover the world and what it means to you through photography.

“The light that flows through us carves our souls. Like beautiful caverns can be created by the manner in which the water flows through a rock.”
Trey Ratcliff