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Salvador de Bahia
The Salvador de Bahia workshop is another creation born from the second on
the road trip with my students/friends Giulio and Marcello.
After our first unforgettable and historic on the road in Cuba, which helped me
create the new Baracoa and Trinidad workshops, the meeting of our good karmas
have made this new exciting workshop possible.
Our positive synergy provided us with some special photographic encounters in
Brazil, which provided the source of inspiration to create this new workshop.
It was hard to choose Salvador de Bahia over Rio as the official venue for my first
Brazilian workshop. We were constantly debating which one would provide students
with the most and unique experience. By the end of the trip, we simply looked
at one another and said: “Salvador.” And Salvador it is.
The city is a splendid mixture of cultures and architectural styles. Its
pervasive African influence provides unique atmospheres for picture taking.
Everyday we will wonder in search of significant moments in all the different
parts of this lively city that I’ve learnt to know and appreciate.
Pelourinho, Barra, Carmo are among the neighborhoods that we will explore.
We will also photograph on the lively beaches that flank the city. We will
take some one-day trips to visit a small fishing village during the return
of the fishermen with their daily catch on wooden sailboats. Another day,
we will spend a full day in a camp with the farmers belonging to the Sem
Terra movement, the landless peasants who occupy unutilized tracts of
land in the hope to claim and settle them.
It will be a fabulous adventure into this very special culture. We will have
our film processed there on a daily base to be able to edit each student’s images.
I will spend quality time with each one you both during the critique sessions and on
our daily photographic outings. I'll also carefully review all your portfolios the very first day of the workshop.
As in all the other workshops I teach, my ultimate goal is to help each participant to
create an appealing body of work with personal strong individual images. Each student
will be encouraged to develop his or her own photographic language and to search for
the invisible thread that ties his or her images together. I’ll help you to
improve your ability to see and create new photographs, to discover your hidden
potential. It will definitely be a valuable educational experience where you
will develop the skills to look at your own work more critically, to appreciate
and discuss yours and other people’s work by learning a new visual
vocabulary. Our final objective is to produce a series of revealing; lasting
images that will display a sense of the place, of its people and traditions.
You will return home with a new commitment to your work and your creativity.
For the ones of you who came to Cuba and experienced my teaching, I'll simply add
that it will be another great learning experience where we'll share both photography
and life.
Not to be missed especially by my repeat students who are always very eager to follow
me everywhere I create a new course.
Please note that in case of exceptional and unforeseeable circumstances such as hurricanes,
earthquakes, major floods, tsunami, a war or governments' change of policies in the countries
I teach courses, BazanPhotos will only offer as a refund a new workshop in any of the other
venues during that same calendar year. No other forms of refunds will be available.
Ernesto Bazan
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