New Documentary Practices – FUTURES 2025 is an educational programme on photography and contemporary imagery that will be held at CAMERA from 2 to 5 December 2025, for young artists, curators and people interested in photography and visual languages.
The project offers two workshops held by masters of international contemporary photography Oliver Frank Chanarin (1971) and Lorenzo Vitturi (1980).
The New Documentary Practices format aims to increase participants’ professional skills and network in the field of photography and contemporary imagery, as well as to broaden the active participation of various types of audiences in contemporary culture through a structured programme.
The two workshops will focus on innovative uses of photographic language, aimed at creating new stories and imagery that challenge traditional approaches to the documentary genre and invent new criteria for questioning reality.
WORKSHOPS
Love the sinner, hate the sin by Oliver Frank Chanarin
Each participant will work closely with the artist to combine photographs, words and computer codes. The workshop will examine the different ways in which the production and circulation of images have been radically transformed in the digital age, giving rise to the reuse and recombination of self-produced images, found images and archive photographs to create a new collective mechanical work that will be exhibited at the end of the workshop.
Between photography and sculpture by Lorenzo Vitturi
Together with Lorenzo Vitturi, students will be involved in a multidisciplinary process that challenges the two-dimensionality of photography to embrace a hybridisation of photography and sculpture. Each participant will be accompanied on urban walks and encouraged to experiment using materials collected during these explorations. By assembling these elements into sculptural forms, workshop participants will then transform their shape and meaning to integrate them into their own personal visual narrative. The final works will reflect this approach, combining visual results with sculptures and ephemeral installations.
PROGRAMME
> Tuesday 2 December, from 6pm
Giangavino Pazzola presents curatorial research on New Documentary Strategies in conversation with Marina Caneve
> Wednesday 3 and Thursday 4 December, 10.00am-1.00pm + 2.00pm-5.00pm
Workshop with Oliver Frank Chanarin and Lorenzo Vitturi
> Thursday 4 December, from 6.30pm
Talk with Oliver Frank Chanarin, François Hébel, Giangavino Pazzola and Lorenzo Vitturi
> Friday 5 December, 10.00am-1.00pm + 2.00pm-5.00pm
Finalisation of workshops and feedback sessions
For the full programme, click here.
HOW TO REGISTER
> Fill out the Registration form, indicating the workshop you wish to attend, and send it to didattica@camera.to
> Make the payment according to the instructions on the registration form
WHO IS IT FOR
The programme is directed at young authors who are passionate about photography and art – coming not only from educational backgrounds in Italian and foreign academies of fine arts and photography schools, but also from schools of social sciences, architecture and artistic disciplines – who are interested in exploring the many opportunities offered by storytelling, from the design of fictional and real narratives to the use of photography combined with other media.
There are a maximum of 25 places available for each workshop.
If the number of applications exceeds the number of places available, CAMERA reserves the right to assess the suitability of the profiles and to make any selections at its sole discretion.
The activity is part of the programme designed for FUTURES – the international network for the promotion of contemporary photography, of which CAMERA is the reference point in Italy. This line of research allows the Turin-based institution to map the main protagonists of emerging contemporary photography in Europe.