ISSP 2019 Publication - Photography and the World

I am interested in topics that deal with collective
memory, traditions and emotional geography. So
exploring the importance of ritual with Alfonso
has been amazing. We learn from him how to work
respecting and including the community. According
to me, the main revelation is this country and its recent
independence. People from Latvia had to hide,
maintain or discover again their traditions.
Flavia Rossi
Inspired by the writings of Roland Barthes and
Maurice Blanchot, I can only agree that the essence
of the image is to be completely outside, without
intimacy, and nevertheless to be more inaccessible
and mysterious than the thoughts of our heart -
meaningless, but invoking the depths of all possible
meanings. However, it can be clearly seen with
their presence-absence, which is the attraction and
charisma of the sirens. The image revives, possibly
illuminating the footprint of feeling - the discovery
of subjective experience. Illumination is not a principle
of photo techniques, but a philosophical view
that shows the inner light of thinking and explanation
- that is what creates an illuminated room. The
gaze complements what is seen, not with knowledge
but with experience.
Kristīne Krauze Slucka
I can’t answer about ritual and photographic
practice. It’s too difficult of a topic for me. I just
don’t know. But in the process of making a camera
obscura, my perspective on the camera has changed.
It used to be something that super high-tech guys
have magically made and presented to us. Now by
rebuilding it in a low-tech way, I‘ve got to think
about its essence from a fresh perspective.
Min Jun Kim
One of the biggest things I have taken from the
workshop with Alfonso is that work can and should
come freely. We have explored this beautiful location,
met with locals, learned history and tradition
- through this, a collective artwork has formed. It is
all too easy to overthink, to try to force a piece of
work and obsess over the result. This workshop has
shown me that the land/space can produce the work
in an organic process.
I have been able to re-form my thoughts about the
images itself, with constant discussion on what makes
an image - we have endlessly thought about whether an
image needs fixing, needs documenting in some way to
be a photograph but perhaps not. Maybe an image that
is fleeting and not fixed, only able to be viewed in the
instant it is created, still remains to be a photograph.
Sammie Masters-Hopkins
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