Dear Students

As you've seen in these first two weeks of lessons, (sorry if they were a bit tiring) every action has produced a result.
We didn't just photograph what we were seeing, but we performed a change of meaning.
We pushed  the objectivity towards a type of symbolism.
Not a neutral process for the person who photographs.
But there is no neutral process in the realization of a work of art, no matter what technique you're using.
Even if ours are not works of art we have added a subjective interpretation.
And so John, upon my suggestion of making a color photograph with the nikon pinhole, captured "alien" presences in the ancient city. ( there are literary references that speak of this, Ennio Flaiano wrote something called "A Martian in Rome"-"Un marziano a Roma")
Emily even showed a 'flying saucer 'landing.

Me too, in the portraits I did of Pio, with Eva's camera, on a graffiti background, i showed the vulgarity and the non neutrality of the background and the strong manipulative power of the photographic genre.  Sometimes used in a dangerous way in journalistic contexts.

Everyone of you has begun to understand that such a slow means, (like the big format camera or even more so, the pinhole)gives back a metaphoric and sometimes even a metaphysical sense to reality.
A reproduction of reality that only looks like reality on the surface, but which doesn't have the sole purpose of reproducing  reality as it is.

We could (should) discuss this together.
Even in a short course, you have jumped with both feet into the problematics of art using a very simple technical tool.

Thank you for your attentive presence and participation.