Dynamics - Keeping the playful and practical format of the deck, the workshop is an immersion in photo storytelling guided by three keywords which are fundamental in the editing process and the creation of a narrative in the photobook;

Experimentation - By playing with group exercises, many narrative tricks will be tested. Those tricks are useful both to tell stories by images and to decode those visual messages which constantly bomb our daily life. Some of these exercises will become zines, small and fast publications to test the relationships between images and pages.

Hybridisms - We touch while we are watching, we listen while we are reading, we comb through our memory looking for codes and hints that help us understand what we have on our hands. Doing that, we remember narrative schemes we have already seen in cinema, literature, poetry, music and even maths.

Disaffection - It’s hard to consider images for what they really are. The difficulties to shoot that picture, the caress for the portrayed people etc are all conditionings which often raise a kind of affection to pictures that don’t actually serve. Working in groups on images that don’t come from our personal projects it helps to break those barriers and win the biggest challenge of the editing process.

The last part of the workshop will be entirely dedicated to discuss photobook projects from participants by using The Rising Card deck in order to experiment new possible editings and to look at the images from different perspectives.