Eyeboard / Journal d'1 regard

This was a workshop organized between La Cambre School of Arts from Brussels and Carpe Diem in Lisbon. I wanted to confront the students with a very narative town. One week on the subject “Epic Light”. Students in their Master degrees produced an exhibition and a catalogue visible until the end of December.  We teached with Herve Charles, Valter Ventura and myself. We were assisted by Luisa Especial and Joana Santos.

EPIC LIGHT-light  (catalogue of the students’work)

@Rebeca B. Alvarez / Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa.

I spend 80 days taking photos in the Paris metro. I captured daily live, images on the borderline between the pointless and the purposeful . Husson Publishing did a book on the story. An exhibition at Atelier 340 shows part of the work in a retrospective of several stories published in the same house.

Among the photographers showing some close ones: Jean-Marc BODSON (BE) /   Hugues DE WURSTEMBERGER (CH) / Chris KEULEN (NL) / 

Images on the Paris Metro can also be seen in my archive section:

http://www.paolopellizzari.com/photo/books/a-book-paris-metro/

A series of photographers had the chance to work on the Friendship project in Bangladesh. The exhibition shows our work and a different look on Bangladesh. Friendship is an NGO lead by Runa Khan and supported by a large number of organizations among which Friendship Luxembourg is one of the most active.

The organization started with transforming boats into hospitals with the objective of helping persons living on sand banks with no access to hospitals.
Images on this story can be seen in the archive of the web site in the Asian section.
An interview of Runa Khan can be seen on you tube by typing Runa’s name.

From the author ( translated from Russian and web site conta.ru

January 19, 2014 in Kiev on the street Hrushevskoho peaceful protest turned into a Ukrainian Evromaydana beginning of the Civil War. With bursts of noise and gas grenades , Molotov cocktails , shooting activists fighters “Berkut” , the construction of the outposts of the bags , drenched with cold water , killing civilians , repression , export of people in the forest, torture and other features characteristic of the dictatorial regime ” under construction democracy” . Seeing on TV that happens, I could not remain indifferent to this , because there history was made . I contacted a colleague and friend Sergei Lebedinsky , the decision to travel to Kiev was adopted with lightning speed , tickets purchased, and a day later we ran into a severe frost on the Maidan with their film cameras . In between takes looking for a place to get warm , drinking tea , eating sandwiches , courtesy activists. Twice God saved us from the attacks of “Berkut” , there was no protection , no helmets or masks , or even orange ” coats ” with the words ” press”, although they would certainly not have saved us , because the Press was conducted aimed fire . Two days of non -stop, all alive , scratches and no injuries , I train, Sergei in the plane, and experience with a film .

I asked the students of La Cambre to describe in writing their latest state of mind and use it as a mood to photograph.

I did not want an illustration but the objective was to create empathy with the viewer and make him understand what MOOD was driving the photographer.

Some examples:

La Nausée/Nausea  by Baptiste Bogaert:

 Le désenchantement/disenchantment by Ichraf Nasri

Le sérieux/Being Serious by Laura Palumbo

 Sur le Vif/On the action by Marion Ellena

“Tv is perfect, every movement is captured, Sport photographers with their 800 mm lenses and multiple shots make even better images, Not one second is missed this is REAL TIME.

Capturing ordinary moments with all their details reveals more information on our times than one can think. This story covers ordinary moments of English summer hollidays at the coast. It is part of this quest of documenting what this world is all about.

see images on: http://www.paolopellizzari.com/photo/europe/south-of-england-2013/

Present on the Tour de France this year, I did a very rare picture of the race with no spectators in the picture. It was in the downhill after the first climb of l’Alpe Duez were the road was in bad shape and no vehicules other than the race media and organisation allowed.

See images on: http://www.paolopellizzari.com/photo/sports/tour-de-france-2013/

It is said that 30 million people attended the 2013 Kumbh Mela in Allahabad. Photographers were concentrated on the relligious events. I decided to focus on the crowd, the back stage of the festival and capture this one month megapole.

see the images on: http://www.paolopellizzari.com/photo/asia/india-allahabad-kumh-mela-2013/

I have asked my student to express with text and photography a Revolt they had towards Society. The idea of this exercise is to stimulate opinions and transform these into a photographic expression.  It gave an interesting view of what University students think about their society, the difficulty they have to translate their view into text and to transform a revolt written in text by themselves into a photographic expression that would fit the topic.