"The only thing about photography that really interests me is emotion or feeling. Beyond that it is just a trick."
Christopher Anderson

This class will explore the idea of photography (and in particular documentary photography or even "photojournalism") as a tool for expressing emotion rather than a reporting or a recording of an event. I am interested in encouraging students to move away from the didactic and find that compelling element in what they see that goes beyond the emulsion and the framing. The class will comprise both portfolio reviews of student's existing work as well as making pictures during the week and critiques of that work. But plenty of time will be given to discussion about working in the field and making the pictures that a photographer feels compelled to make.

Biography
b. 1970 Canada.
In 2000, Christopher received the Robert Capa Gold Medal for his photographs of Haitians immigrants trying to sail to America. In 2001, he was awarded the Kodak Young Photographer Award for a story about the young stone throwers in Gaza. That same year he also received the Visa d'Or at Visa Pour l'Image in Perpignan, France for photographs of Afghan refugees in Pakistan. He has been nominated for a Pulitzer Prize by the New York Times in 2000. Four times he has been a finalist for the W. Eugene Smith Fund for Documentary Photography. In 2005, he was named NPPA Magazine Photographer of the Year and in 2003 he was runner up for both the Capa Gold Medal and Magazine Photographer of the Year.

For the past ten years, his documentary work has been regularly featured in magazines around the world such as Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and National Geographic Magazine.  More recently, Christopher has been doing pioneering work with multi-media, producing interactive photo essays for MagnumInMotion from Bolivia and Lebanon and is part of the Off Broadway exhibit curated by Anderson and five other photographers. The exhibit has now appeared to critical acclaim in New York, Arles, Berlin, Sao Paolo and Milan. Christopher is the author of one monograph, Nonfiction (DeMo 2003) and the co-author of two other titles WAR (Demo 2003) and Rethink (DeMo 2002). He joined the VII agency in 2002 and became a Magnum nominee in 2005. He is based in New York.

© C. Anderson

“L’unica cosa che veramente mi interesa in fotografia è l’emozione e il sentimento.. oltre a questo, e solo un trucco.”
Christopher Anderson

In questo workshop exploreremo la fotografia (in particolare la documentary-photoraphy e anche il fotogiornalismo) come un mezzo per esprimere un’emozione, piuttosto che per raccontare o registrare un evento.. Quello che mi interessa è incoraggiare gli studenti a allontanarsi dalla descrizione didatica e trovalre gli elementi essenziali in quello che vedono, trascurando la parte tecnica. Durante il workshop verrà esaminato attentamente il portfolio dei partecipanti, e si realizzeranno nuovi progetti on-location, che verranno criticati giornalmente. Si parlerà a lungo del lavorare sul campo e di come realizzare quelle immagini che meglio ci esprimono come fotografi.

Biografia
Christopher Anderson, nato in Canada, 1970.
Ha ricevuto nel 2000 il premio Robert Capa Gold Medal per il suo reportage sugli immigranti Haitiani. Nel 2001 Kodak Young Photographer Award  per una storia su Gaza Lo stesso annon ha ricevuto il Visa d'Or di  Visa Pour l'Image a Perpignan. Nel 2005 è stato nominato NPPA Magazine Photographer of the Year.
Negli ultimi dieci anni, il suo lavoro è apparrso regolarmente su Newsweek, The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, e National Geographic Magazine.  Recentemente, Christopher ha esplorato le possibilità del multimedia, producendo per Magnum in Motion alcuny photo-esay sulla Bolivia e su Libano.. Fa parte del progeto Off-Broadway insieme ad altri cinque fotografi. Off-Broadway è stato esposto a New York, Arles, Berlin, Sao Paolo and Milan. E’ Autore di una monografia  Nonfiction (DeMo 2003), e coautore du due altri titoli  WAR (Demo 2003) and Rethink (DeMo 2002). Si è unito all’agenzia VU nel 2002, è nominee presso Magnum dal 2005. Vive a New York.