The COURSE.
Photography needs a solid base on a visual culture that fosters the creation of images with an original style, addressing different themes and with a research-oriented approach to the expression of individual creativity.
Questo corso ti consente di combinare la creatività di un approccio autoriale con competenze tecniche in vari settori, dal corporate alla moda, dalla fotografia documentaria a quella interattiva, dall’editoria all’arte. Gli studenti svilupperanno una propria identità visiva distintiva e multidisciplinare e realizzeranno con il supporto degli insegnanti un progetto personale che sintetizza i loro apprendimenti e la loro esperienza creativa.
Start: 20/10/2025
Level: Intermediate
Duration: 1 year
Mode: In-person course
Attendance: Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday
Cost: 4,900 €
Course leader: Bärbel Reinhard, Giuseppe Toscano
Target
Mastering Photography is a course aimed at all those who have already technical and project-oriented foundations of visual language, and are ready to develop their creative and conceptual skills, as well as techniques to stand out in an interdisciplinary landscape of visual communication.
ADMISSION – PORTFOLIO ASSESSMENT
The portfolio assessment is necessary to know your technical and conceptual skills in photography.
To apply for our Annual Mastering Photography Course, you must send the following documents:
- Photographic portfolio of about 15-20 images that are part of one or more photographic projects, even if not closely related to the course in question
- Brief biography describing the candidate’s studies
The portfolio should be submitted as a single file in pdf format or in a zipped folder. The biography must be uploaded in pdf format.
A motivational interview will be conducted prior to enrollment.
Course Details.
The goal of our one-year course is to explore the future of images, starting with its historical and material foundations, its potential as a social and artistic tool, and its status and meaning within the everyday, both in the commercial and artistic spheres.
The course allows you to combine the creativity of an authorial approach with technical and problem-solving skills in various fields, from corporate to fashion, from documentary to multimedia design, from publishing to art, always in search of a recognizable visual identity and with a multidisciplinary perspective rooted in contemporary society.
The course is held in-person on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays from 5 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Intensive international exchange periods with other schools are planned.
Free use of the school’s labs and equipment throughout the period of course attendance.
Final exhibition and certificate delivery in late September 2025.
The school’s teaching method, established over more than 30 years, is based on interdisciplinary research for both short and long-term projects. Working individually or in teams, you will learn to explore contemporary socio-cultural research and issues, reflecting on the production and consumption of photographic and moving images. You will also learn to handle the variety of materials, techniques and new technological applications of digital arts.
- Technical seminars: Photography and video shooting technique, Lighting technique, Post production, Graphics. Tutorials, free and self-directed workshops.
- Design Seminars: Visual language development, Interdisciplinarity, Editing for publishing market, Exhibitions, Socio-cultural, theoretical and critical seminars for research; Professionalizing practical orientation meetings: branding strategies, visual identity, awards, quotations, promotion, law.
- Intensive workshops: collaborations and exchanges to work in different strands of projects directed toward personal research and commissioned work
CURRENT FACILITATIONS
We have launched an Early Bird promotion for our annual Mastering Photography Course: if you register by June 30, you will get an exclusive discount on the cost of the course. An unmissable opportunity for those who are ready to make photography a key part of their future!
Sign up by June 30 and take advantage of the Early Bird discount. Don’t let this opportunity slip away.
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Students’ work
ESTER BARTOLINI - PLAY TIME
ELENA NEVIANA WOITE - DI AQUILE E MERCEDES
CLAUDIO PROVENZA - ANTICLIMAX
La tradition du nouveau
Conceived and led by Jean Baptiste Blom (ECV) in collaboration with Lucia Minunno (Studio Marangoni), the workshop involves design students from Paris and Mastering Photography students in a project aimed at creating posters that synthesize one of the many possible declinations of the notion of Time.
The workshop starts from the “éxperience du Temps” offered by some Renaissance and Mannerist frescoes in the area. From psycho-physical perception to collective reflection, from creative collaboration to collaborative creation, the young authors, during the workshop confront the concept of Time in the era of space-time hyper-connection, under the sign of interdisciplinary and intercultural experimentation.
