How is architecture portrayed? According to Andrea Jemolo, “before photographing, you need to have a clear plan that settles, stratifies and enriches itself in the photographer’s brain”. This general guideline naturally also applies when photographing buildings and monuments. Cities are in constant transformation; they are a living body that changes, but thanks to photography we can obtain information about the place, the form and the way in which the structure interacts with space and light. Sunlight and the illumination of architecture are important because they tell the story of the changing seasons and the passing of the hours. Sometimes it is enough to move a few metres to gain photographic quality, creativity and light.
Participation in the Workshop entitles the student to 1 CFA
The Workshop is aimed at a maximum of 15 students who already have a good background in photography. To participate, you must bring a camera and a tripod.
The Workshop includes two other sessions in addition to the keynote address (compulsory for students enrolled in the Workshop)
- Friday 5 May 2023, 10:30 am – 6:30 pm (with a one-hour lunch break).
Ara Pacis Museum, Lungotevere in Augusta (corner of Via Tomacelli)
The students, guided by Andrea Jemolo, will photograph the interior and exterior of the Ara Pacis Museum. The Ara Pacis Museum, designed by the architect Richard Meier and inaugurated in 2006, houses the Ara Pacis Augusti (9 BC). - Friday 26 May 2023, 3:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Room 4A – Campo Boario site, Largo Dino Frisullo s.n.c.
Andrea Jemolo will review with the students the photographs taken with them at the Ara Pacis Museum and the work continued by the students independently.
Discover the Lectio Magistralis
Andrea Jemolo is known as one of the greatest masters of historical, modern and contemporary architectural photography. Born in Rome in 1957, he made his debut in the 1970s with reportage photos of political commitment. Since the mid-1980s, his interest has shifted towards art and architecture photography. His photographic campaigns range from the monumental remains of ancient Egypt and the Aurelian Walls to work on contemporary architects, such as the documentation of the construction sites of Zaha Hadid’s MAXXI in Rome and Tadao Ando’s Punta della Dogana in Venice, from the Ara Pacis to social housing and the Fosse Ardeatine Memorial, and in sculpture from Roman art to Michelangelo’s Moses, from the Baroque to the art of Nigeria. His extensive photographic archive, A Photographic Archive of Architecture and Art,, now contains over 15,000 images, taken during photographic campaigns conducted since the late 1970s for architecture and art magazines and publishing houses, architects’ studios and important museums and institutions (see: https://jemolo.com/it).
For information, write to: Antonia Parente a.parente@abaroma.it
Communications Office of the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome
Coordination: Prof. Guglielmo Gigliotti g.gigliotti@abaroma.it
Collaboration: Chiara Picco, Martina Macchia, Marianna Pontillo comunicazione@abaroma.it