Crafting Stories that Linger explores how subjects that are challenging to represent using traditional documentary photography techniques can be revealed through methods borrowed from conceptual art. The focus is on invisible systems, themes, and trends that are part of current events, yet challenging to visualize. Participants combine theory and practice, working in the field, experimenting with alternative photographic approaches, and exploring how to merge investigative depth with creative interpretation.
The workshop is designed for photographers ready to transform intangible ideas into evocative visual stories. Over four intensive days, participants explore how to build narrative depth before pressing the shutter, harness the emotive power of images, and assemble visual languages that amplify meaning and impact.
Drawing inspiration from De Luigi’s long-term project, Atlas Europia, where photography serves as a tool to preserve memory, provoke questions, and bridge past and present, participants refine their ability to communicate and present their work with clarity and resonance.
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Organized by The VII Foundation in collaboration with the French Institute in Bosnia and Herzegovina, within the framework of the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) Program.
Stefano De Luigi is a contributing photographer for The VII Foundation based in Paris.
As a child, Stefano De Luigi (b. 1964, Germany) discovered photograph albums that recorded decades of unconventional family histories; his father’s family intertwined with the legacy of the Italian colonies in Africa. He found grainy prints from Libya, Eritrea, Somalia, and Ethiopia that sparked a lifelong fascination in him with the image and its ability to represent our inner voices.
Multilingual Stefano regards societies’ pop culture — from television, fashion, pornography, cinema, and political propaganda — and scrapes away the make-up and the polish to ask, is what you’re seeing actually what you think you see?
His numerous awards include four World Press Photo awards (1998, 2007, 2010, 2011), the Eugene Smith Fellowship Grant (2008), the Getty Grant for Editorial Photography, the Days Japan International Photojournalism Award (2010), and the Syngenta Photography Award (2015).
Stefano works regularly with several international publications, including The New Yorker, Geo, Paris Match, and Stern, and has exhibited his work in New York, Paris, Geneva, Milan, Rome, London, Istanbul, and Athens.
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