Tag: NGO
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Introduction to Photography and Photoshop – Training for teachers at the Martyrs School
English, Castellano, Català. At the end of the 2073 (mid April 2017), once the school holidays started, I provided some training in Introduction to Photography and Photoshop, for the teachers of the school. First we made a brief induction on how to make better pictures and then on how to retouch them so as…
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Plastic and cartoons in “El Hogar Amor, Paz y Alegría” – Renca – Santiago
English, Castellano i Català. (Fotos – Photos ↓) First of all, let me talk about the children at El Hogar, Paz y Alegría (The Home of Love, Peace and Joy) in Renca. This program by Laura Vicuña Foundation provides a residential service to children who, due to an order issued by the Family Court of…
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The arrival to Chile was sweet, nice and warm
English, Castellano i Català. (Fotos – Photos ↓) I devoted the first few days there to stay with one of the people I love the most, with whom I shared meditations, a home and later a friendship in Barcelona since 2011. Moreover, a friend from Argentina (whom I stayed with in La Plata) also came…
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See, shoot, and shout out in “Escuela secundaria 24” – Isla Maciel
English, Castellano i Català. (Fotos – Photos ↓) This was a real challenge for me. These were teenagers, in a territory as hostile as a secondary school, and it wasn’t easy to get them interested in the workshop. The way to get them to really participate in the participative photography workshop was by offering…
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Plastic and cartoons in “Conventi Yo Creativo” – Isla Maciel
English, Castellano i Català. (Fotos – Photos ↓) On a Saturday morning we had the plastic and cartoons workshop with the group attending the old convent every Saturday morning. This is a more independent group, there are lots of volunteers helping out and children have the option to do various activities: tennis, painting, board games……
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The bubble Project in “La Casa del Niño” – Isla Maciel
English, Castellano i Català. (Fotos – Photos ↓) The same children that took part in the bubble project also did this one. For this workshop we decided to have them copy drawings from the books and magazines in the classroom. Even though they were really young children, the results were really good fun. The bubble…
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Plastic and Cartoons in “La casa del Niño” – Isla Maciel
English, Castellano i Català. (Fotos – Photos ↓) The first place I taught all the workshops was in la casa del niño. In Argentina, children go to school in 2 different shifts. Some of them go in the morning while others go in the afternoon. La casa de los niños is the place where children…
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La Isla Maciel – Avellaneda – Buenos aires
English, Castellano i Català. (Fotos – Photos ↓) Since my arrival in Argentina I have done a lot of workshops with the Creativity Photo Project in “La Isla Maciel”. The island has turned out to be a peninsula where, despite the bad reputation and marginality of its inhabitants, it is a relatively quiet place, very…
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SPECIAL, awarded at the Photogenic Festival, Barcelona.
English, Castellano, Català – fotos, photos ↓ Last night my NGO partner, Alba Miquel, accepted the prize awarded to me by the photography festival Photogenic Festival, in the Emerging Photographers category. The work I presented were the portraits I took – during my stay in the Manawala Complex in Amritsar (India)- of boys with special…
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On my way to Argentina! #ArgentinaCreativity
English, Español i Català. It is now time to hit the road – or the sky – again! The Creativity Photo Project just took off from El Prat airport and is already on its way to Argentina. It will first land in Buenos Aires, to several schools and associations around Isla Maciel. It is a very…