Photography-Photoreportage

Course type: group – in-person
Participants:Max. 15
Attendance: From Monday to Friday, from 9 am to 13 pm
Duration: 8 lessons, 32 hours total
Cost:€ 500,00*
Requirements/supporting materials: digital reflex camera or compact camera
Language: Italian
Lecturer: Andrea Sabbadini
Location:RUFA – Via Benaco, 1b (Photography room)
Registration opening: 15 Jenuary 2024
Closing date for entries: 5 April 2024
* to be paid in one instalment at the time of enrolment. It is possible to finance the registration fee in 6 or 12 interest-free instalments through a credit institution affiliated with RUFA.

Objectives

Students will receive the essential knowledge to create a photographic story. During the outings into the city, will be realise, through a series of black and white or colour digital pictures, some themed photographic reportage.
The course is structured between theoretical and practical lessons, merging the students analyzed project with the study of photography language and the view of some experiences that have made the the history of photography.
In detailes, attention will be given to the photojournalism history, passing by the experience of the FSA and the Photo League, until the new multimedia challenges.
In this course, will be questioned the specific asks of reportage (Who, What, When, Where, Why); the specific and complete study of equipment; the
planning of a reportage (Research and Revision); and also deontological and ethical-professional issues will be addressed.
The course provides to the participants the possibility of greater mutual knowledge and the tools to face better our world, dominated by pictures.

APRIL

6/4/2024
13/4/2024
20/4/2024

MAY

11/5/2024
18/5/2024
25/5/2024

JUNE

1/6/2024
8/6/2024

Andrea Sabbadini was born in 1963 in Rome where he lives and works in the field of Photography.
He graduated in Psychology in 1988 at “La Sapienza” University. From 1989 to 1992 in London he attends the Photography School of Visual and Performing Arts winning the Merit award in the BIPP/FUJI Student Photographic Competition on the theme “The New Optimism”. In 1993 he won first prize with the group “Scale Dorsali” in the international competition for young artists at the Maastricht Biennial, sound installations and video art. Since 1996, he has collaborated with major national and international newspapers and magazines and is a member of the Order of Journalists. From 2005 to 2010 he teaches photography at Richimond University in Rome. In 2010 he collaborates with the International and European Forum for Immigration Research in the research group “Labour Migration Governance in Contemporary Europe”
From 2010 to 2014 he is the press office photographer for the National Forensic Council. In 2012 he works on a photojournalistic survey of the socioeconomic reality in Italy and Europe in the years of the crisis collaborating closely with journalist Angelo Mastrandrea. From 2013 to 2019 he teaches photojournalism at the Rome University of Fine Arts.
In 2019 he produces with photographer Alessandro Parente and artist Libre Vagabund “Water Box” a project with indigenous communities of the Pacific coast of Mexico on behalf of Bainbridge Island Museum of Art , WA. He is currently a stringer for Polaris Images agency and a staff member of Buenavista photo, a network of Italian freelance photographers.
His personal documentation work is developed through the photography of places and people, starting from the chronicle of daily life to investigate social issues and customs. Andrea Sabbadini’s photographs appear on the front pages and inside prestigious daily and weekly newspapers, such as Il Manifesto, Repubblica, Internazionale.

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RUFA students and alumni: 50%
Ex students Intensive Course and Summer Course RUFA 2022-23: 10%
University students: 5% (upon presentation of the university registration booklet)
Course package: For those who enroll in two or more courses, a 10% discount will be applied on the purchase of courses following the first.