A workshop with Walter Costa Editing Sickness

A day of intensive therapy based on editing exercises and photobooks to get inspired, experimenting with photographic storytelling strategies on projects that aspire to become books, outlining the methods and steps needed to go from the mind to the page.

Diagnosis: You know what you would like to tell through a photobook, but you suffer in the process of translating your project into a sequence of images, within a coherent editorial product.

Therapy: The aim of the workshop is to help you fight this common pathology by unlocking creativity and the search for new narrative paths within your project. The practical, playful and hybrid course uses three well-proven medicines: the expansion of your narrative repertoire; the understanding of the syntax of image sequences; and the practical experimentation with narrative strategies inspired by film, music and other non-photographic languages.

Posology: Each project will be examined by the group through practical editing/storytelling exercises and the analysis of specially selected photobooks, leading to a coherent definition of the narrative and physical characteristics of the book format.

At the end of the treatment, you will have acquired and experimented with a series of tools with which to effectively combat future bouts of "editing sickness", as well as having achieved a more conscious vision of the choices that make up the editorial process.

Book your seat using the link below. If you wish to know more about any aspects of the course before enrolling, or to apply for the scholarship, please write to edu@phmuseum.com.

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