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GOD’S PEOPLE WORKSHOP
22 – 25 NOVEMBER 2012
Monika Bulaj will hold a 4-day workshop on the occasion of the Day of Ashura, one of the most spectacular traditions surviving Islamic antiquity, to explore how it’s celebrated among the active and popoulous Turkish community of Berlin.
The project “God’s People: Travels into Another Europe”
“I started my travels in the winter of 1985, on the Eastern border of Poland, which I had crossed on foot, travelling from South to North, across fields and woods. I lived with charismatic Pentecostal peasants who, in moments of ecstasy, could overcome all linguistic and cultural barriers. In the frozen, empty house where the great poet Czeslaw Milosz once lived, I found a Pole who had been adopted by Gypsies and who had now become the custodian of the secrets of the Romany – a population that does not reveal itself to anyone. And then there were the books, the crosses, the sacred artefacts in the houses of the “Old Believers”, the ultra orthodox schismatics who rejected the Russian liturgic reforms of the seventeenth century. People who have remained attached to medieval faiths, persecuted, burnt at stake, expelled, and dispersed throughout Poland, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Siberia, and the most disparate corners of the world. Since then, I have never stopped my search and my journey through the peripheries of Europe became a journey amongst the peoples of God. What started as an exploration of the physical borders between populations, minorities and confessions, with time became a voyage into the metaphysical, even magical frontiers at which these populations and their religions have managed to come together, despite the horrific memories that separate them.”
Her photos and reportages have been published by GEO, National Geographic, La Repubblica, Il Corriere della Sera, Courrier International, Gazeta Wyborcza and other international magazines.
She has displayed more than 60 personal exibitions in Italy, Germany, Egypt and abroad.
She has published books: “Libya felix”, Mondadori 2002 (a travel into the sufism and the world of the Tuaregh in the time of Ghedafi); “Figli di Noè” Frassinelli 2006 (minorities and faiths in Azerbaigian); “Rebecca e la pioggia”, Frassinelli 2006 (the nomadic tribe of the Dinka of South Sudan); “Gerusalemme perduta” with Paolo Rumiz, Frassinelli 2005 (the pellegrinage in the research of the Eastern Christians); “Genti di Dio, viaggio nell’Altra Europa”, Postcart 2012, (a synthesis of her 20 years of researches in East Europe, Caucasus and Israel).
Awards and Fellowship: Bruce Chatwin Award 2009 “Absolute Eyes”, The Aftermath Project Grant 2010, Ted Fellowship 2011, Premio Tomizza 2012 and others.
http://www.monikabulaj.com
PROGRAM
The courses take place over 4 days from Thursday to Sunday:
THURSDAY
9.30 am – 1.30 pm: introduction of the theme, slideshow of other similar works, studying magazines
afternoon / night: shooting the assignment
FRIDAY
9.30 am – 1.30 pm: questions about the theme, solving difficult situations, the Master is available for questions, advices, editing pictures
afternoon / night: shooting the assignment
SATURDAY
9.30 am – 1.30 pm: questions about the theme, solving difficult situations, the Master is available for questions, advices, editing pictures
morning / afternoon / night: shooting the assignment
SUNDAY
morning: Final editing session: the students will finish their work and choose 30 pictures for the reportage.
2 pm – 7.30 pm: Viewing of all the works, discussions, voting, selection of the three best reportages.
COSTS
The participation fee for the workshop is 570,00 euro (VAT excluded).
This fee does not include travel or accommodation costs.
DEADLINE
Pre-registration is open until November 1st 2012.
ciao Monika, sarei interessato a ricevere maggiori informazioni in merito al workshop. Come sarà organizzato ? Quali soggetti verranno fotografati ? Costi e logistica ? Grazie mille.
Fulvio
Ciao Fulvio,
grazie dell’interesse. I dettagli sono in definizione in questi giorni, ti mandiamo una mail quanto prima. Have a nice day! Linda
Good afternoon,
I would like to receve more details about the workshop.
Thanks!
l.
Please I would like to receive at my email more info about this workshop when available.
Thank you very much
V.
Sono interessato, molto interessato. Posso avere delle info sulla lingua di lavoro? Grazie
Thank you for your interest @Linda,@Vuncenzo and @Luciano. I’ve just sent you an email.
An useful added information is that the workshop will be held in English, unless we have all the participants speaking italian.
buongiorno Monika e Linda e buona domenica
sono un fotoamatore interessato a questo workshop, in qualche modo affine a un mio lavoro in corso di realizzazione (feste religiose e popolari degli italoamericani: http://www.photographers.it/free/stefanopizzetti/)
potete inviare anche a me gli aggiornamenti e i dettagli?
solitamente lavoro in analogico mentre sul digitale sono un pò limitato: ci sono problemi?
grazie
@Stefano: nessun problema per l’analogico, ti ho mandato i dettagli via mail.
Buona sera monika sono molto interessato potrei avere maggiori dettagli sul workshop ? In attesa di una cortese risposta Tiziano
Buona sera monika sarei molto interessato al workshop potresti darmi maggiori dettagli? In attesa di una cortese risposta
Ciao Monika, potrei avere qualche dettaglio più specifico sul workshop?
Grazie!
Gianni
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Hi Abhishek! send us an email to info@photo-berlin.org
including your full name, phone number, age, current address. Please attach a digital portfolio of no more than 20 pictures (jpeg 1200 px max lenght)
Thank you! Linda
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