New Documentary Practices
Workshop with Oliver Frank Chanarin and Lorenzo Vitturi | 2 – 5 December 2025
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, 5.00pm-7.00pm
Giangavino Pazzola presents curatorial research on New Documentary Strategies
> 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, 6.30pm-7.30pm
Talk with Oliver Frank Chanarin 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.
Oliver Frank Chanarin
Oliver Frank Chanarin (London, 1971) is an artist who works primarily with photography and is the winner of the prestigious Image Vevey Photography Grant 2024. His wide-ranging artistic practice is characterised by an openness to experimentation and collaboration. Although rooted in photography and a critical approach to photojournalism, his work culminates in various media, including books, installations, robotics and photography. Chanarin studied Artificial Intelligence at university and was a professor of photography at the Hochschule für bildende Künste (HFBK) in Hamburg (2016-2022). Chanarin is also a founding member of the master’s programme in photography at the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in the Netherlands. He is one of two members of the duo Broomberg & Chanarin, whose works are held in major public and private collections, including Centre Pompidou – Paris, Tate Modern – London, MoMA – New York, Stedelijk – Amsterdam, Jumex – Mexico City, Victoria and Albert Museum – London, The Eye – Amsterdam, Art Gallery of Ontario, Cleveland Museum of Art and Baltimore Museum of Art. Awards include the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize (2013) for the War Primer 2 project, the ICP Infinity Award (2014) for the Holy Bible project and the Arles Photo Text Award (2018).
Lorenzo Vitturi
Lorenzo Vitturi (Venice, 1980) works in the fields of photography, sculpture and installation. Following his experience as a film set designer, Vitturi constructs temporary sets and ephemeral sculptures, both in the studio and on location, using both organic and artificial materials. Starting from specific geographical locations and encounters with local communities, his work explores informal economies and the fusion of different cultures, focusing on the movement of objects and people in a globalised world. Recent solo exhibitions include EARTH. Foundation, Verona (2024); Fondazione MAST – Foto Industria, Bologna (2021); Centre Photographique Rouen Normandie (2021), FOAM Museum, Amsterdam (2019); The Photographers’ Gallery, London (2017), Contact Gallery, Toronto (2015) and CNA Centre National de l’Audiovisuel, Luxembourg (2014). Vitturi has also participated in group exhibitions at MAXXI in Rome, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Palazzo Reale and Triennale in Milan, BOZAR in Brussels, K11 Art Museum in Shanghai and Barbican Centre in London.