On June 8-9 and June 29, 2019, the Carlo Laviosa Foundation, in collaboration with FotoInCorso, is holding a workshop by Fulvio Bortolozzo in Livorno as part of the “Photography and the World of Work” project. “The workshop aims to delve into the existing relationships between observation in places, urban and industrial, with the documentary-style photographs that can result,” Fulvio Bortolozzo explains. The photographer, within the descriptive limits of his technical medium, reduces and orders the complexity of what he observes by making it experienceable through transfer into photographic images.
The difference between the direct experience of things and photographs constitutes a “machine-made” iconography whose theoretical, technical and conceptual mechanisms of operation need to be thoroughly understood.
As part of the seminar, some fundamental moments in the tradition associated with direct documentary-style photography will be traced.
The excursus, starting from the Renaissance perspective, will go through the various authorial and collective experiences from the nineteenth-century missions to the neo-topography of the 1970s and beyond, up to the most recent trends in contemporary documentary photography “. 
He is a lecturer, photographer and curator.
He graduated in 1980 from the School of Scenography at the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin.
He uses the camera as an observational device.
Since 1998 he has been a lecturer in the three-year courses of the European Institute of Design in Turin.
Since 2003 he has been teaching courses, seminars and workshops in Theory and History of the Photographic Image.
In 2006 his photographs are selected for Suoni e Visioni international exhibition dedicated to the last fifty years of Italian photography.
From 2009 to 2011 he gives life to the Gualino Observatory project, as part of which he curates the competition Lens Based Art Show (2010).
In 2014 he curates the editorial project Questo Paese.
From 2015 to 2018 he publishes the magazine REST.
In 2018 he continues the This Country project with the publication of two issues of QP magazine.
In 2019 he starts the publication of DERIVE.
The workshop will take place in Livorno, Italy, at 35 Edda Fagni St. Those who register by May 15 can take advantage of a discount. Schedule, times, cost and how to register: https://fondazionelaviosa.com/attivita/paesaggio-e-presenze-industriali/.
Carlo Laviosa Foundation Press Office Manager Daniela Salvestroni daniela.salvestroni@laviosa.com
