Photography and cities have had a close relationship ever since the invention of our medium. The camera has always had an interest in the description of reality, its juxtapositions, and the freezing of time. The city has been the camera’s playground for almost two centuries. The richness of surfaces and the dynamicity of its rhythm has been the interest of many photographers from Eugene Atget to Berenice Abbot, from Joel Meyerowitz to Anastasia Samoylova. They’ve all had a way of understanding how a city shows its peculiarities and idiosyncrasies by the way it looks and moves.

In this workshop we’ll have 5 days between theory and practice to work with different approaches for this complex and vast theme, which is the city, from handheld camera intuition, to slow composition with a tripod, and the use of different focal lengths to describe the visual translation from tridimensional space to the bidimensional characteristic of the photographic plane. We will explore Miami in three different locations to put our eyes at play. In class theory we will see the work of some of the most relevant pictures in the history of the medium to analyze them for inspiration and for specific concepts of the medium based in theories by John Szarkowski and Stephen Shore.