What happens inside your mind can happen inside a camera.
It was the line that I wrote back in the 1970s as an advertising copywriter that convinced me to put down the pen and pick up the camera. In this workshop we will strive to expand the concept of seeing from within—taking the vision you hold in your heart and mind and turning it over to the camera you hold in your hands. The demands are tough yet the rewards are abundant, capable of astonishing even the home folk. During the course of the workshop, you will become part of a lively, compassionate, and savvy group of visual thinkers and creative souls. Every day the goal will be to discover how best to nurture, strengthen, and expand your internal vision as you build a broad and memorable body of personal work in photography.

Arno Rafael Minkkinen is a Finnish American photographer, educator, curator, and writer.
He has had over two hundred one-person and group exhibitions at galleries and museums worldwide, including SAGA: The Journey of Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Thirty-Five Years of Photographs that has traveled to Massachusetts, Eastern Europe, Finland, Italy, and Canada.  His unmanipulated self-portrait photographs can be seen in five monographs: Frostbite (Morgan & Morgan, 1978); Waterline (Marval, Aperture, and Otava, 1994), Grand Prix du Livre at the 25th Rencontres d’Arles; Body Land (Motta, Nathan, and the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997–1999); SAGA (Chronicle Books, 2005), Special Jury Prize at the 2nd Lianzhou International Photography Festival in China; and Homework: The Finnish Photographs, 1973 to 2008 (Like Publishing, Ltd., 2008). Minkkinen’s works are in prominent museum and institutional collections worldwide: Museum of Modern Art in New York; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Center for Creative Photography in Tucson; Musée d’Élysée in Lausanne; Georges Pompidou Center in Paris; Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris; Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma in Helsinki; and Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. He is Professor of Art at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, Docent at the University of Art & Design Helsinki, and graduate faculty at Maine Media College in Rockport, Maine. In 1992, the Finnish government conferred knighthood with the First Class Order of the Lion medal. In 2006, Minkkinen was awarded the Finnish State Art Prize in Photography.

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Quello che succede nella tua testa può succedere in una macchina fotografica.
E’ quello che ho scritto negli anni 70 come copywriter che mi ha convinto ad abbandonare la penna e iniziare a usare la macchina fotografica. In questo workshop ci sforzeremo di espandere il concetto di vedere dal di dentro – prendere la visione che tenete stretta nel cuore e nella mente e adattarla alla macchina che tenete tra le mani. La richiesta è alta ma le soddisfazioni sono ricche, capaci di stupirvi. Durante il workshop diventeremo parte di un gruppo vivo e appassionato di anime creative e “pensatori visivi”. L’impegno quotidiano sarà quello di  nutrire, accrescere e espandere la vostra visione interiore,mentre costruite un insieme di lavori fotografici ampi e memorabili.

Arno Rafael Minkkinen è un fotografo, insegnante, curatore e scrittore Finno-Americano.
Ha partecipato a oltre duecento mostre, sia personali che collettive in tutto il mondo, incluso SAGA: The Journey of Arno Rafael Minkkinen, Thirty-Five Years of Photographs che è stata esposta in  Massachusetts,  Europa dell’Est, Finlandia, Italia,  e  Canada.  I suoi autoritratti naturali e non modificati sono stati pubblicati in cinque monografie: Frostbite (Morgan & Morgan, 1978); Waterline (Marval, Aperture, and Otava, 1994), Grand Prix du Livre at the 25th Rencontres d’Arles; Body Land (Motta, Nathan, and the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997–1999); SAGA (Chronicle Books, 2005), Premio Speciale della Giuria al secondo  Lianzhou International Photography Festival in Cina; e Homework: The Finnish Photographs, 1973 to 2008 (Like Publishing, Ltd., 2008). Le opere di Minkkinen sono presenti in musei e collezioni di tutto il mondo: Museum of Modern Art a New York; Museum of Fine Arts Boston; Center for Creative Photography a Tucson; Musée d’Élysée a Lausanne; Georges Pompidou Center a Parigi; Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris; Contemporary Art Museum Kiasma a Helsinki; e al Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography. Insegna Art alla University of Massachusetts Lowell,  alla University of Art & Design Helsinki, e al  Maine Media College a Rockport, Maine. Nel 1992, il Governo Finlandese lo ha nominato cavaliere dell’Ordine della medaglia del Leone. Nel 2006, è stato premiato con il Finnish State Art Prize in Photography.

www.arnorafaelminkkinen.org