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Canon and FDI, one (with) course to become professional photographers - FotoZona

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Di Giulio Mandara

Towards the end of February will start the Advanced Training Course in Professional Photography organized by the European Institute of Design and the magazine “D-La Repubblica”, the winner of the contest “The Lives of Others” will share ( almost 50,000 euros) covered by a scholarship. Deadline 26 January

IED MILANO ITALY AND CANON – If not before, at least at Canon Live Experience (the three days dedicated to photography and video that has in fact taken place to “Photo”) Canon Italy has launched a major partnership with the FDI ( European Institute of Design ) in Milan, which hosted the event, as we saw here .

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A moment of Canon Live Experience 2013 at the IED in Milan (photo: Kleements & McOellin )

AN ADVANCED COURSE OF PHOTOS AND VIDEO – The collaboration continued and strengthened: Canon Italian and IED together also D-La Repubblica (insert ” feminine “of the newspaper) are organizing a Advanced Training Course in Professional Photography is the value of 5000 Euro (precisely 4.950), which will start on February 20, 2014 and will take place in week 11 end, once a month (ie until the end of 2014) precisely to the Milan office of the IED (via Sciesa 4), where you will find all the equipment, from the darkroom to the exposure room, where famous and professional photographers will keep some lessons. The design of the course aims to develop projects image in still life, food photography, show photography, self publishing, photo story. Theory and practice as well, not to mention the video and post-production of still and moving images, and even career guidance.

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POSSIBLE JOB – The job opportunities possible, explain by the IED, are the different activities in the world of photography still life photographer, photojournalist, photographer show (scene of film and theater, music, dance, etc..) food, architecture, interiors, landscape and environment, cultural heritage, artist photographer, video maker, a small publisher, photo-editor, archivist, curator, critic-theorist.

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A moment of Shooting Live organized by Canon for Canon Live Experience at IED (photo by Icomo, Flickr)

THE FINAL SHOW – At the end of the course there will be a public exhibition consists of the works done by the students, always at the IED in Milan. To participate you must be resident in Italy and have a qualification at university level or equivalent professional experience in matters similar to those covered in the course.

A CONTEST FOR A FREE COURSE – A photography course at this level is not just an investment, and to facilitate the participation Canon and other promoters provide a scholarship to cover total costs, which will be the main prize for the winner of a photo contest. Course and competition together aim at “identifying and developing the next generation of talent, encourage creativity, innovation, culture, train professionals capable. Moreover, it is not a new task for Canon, just think of the Canon Young Photographers annual competition, now an established tradition .
Contest tied to the Advanced Training Course entitled “ The Lives of Others “. This fact suggested the theme (the title may be familiar because it is also that of a 2006 film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Winner of several awards including an Oscar), which leaves a lot of room for interpretation but refers mainly to Steet Photography and reportage . It also draws attention to the delicate issue of privacy and protection, when it comes to photography.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE – S participates in the posting, along with CV and motivational letter as to the traditional nominations, five photographs Jpeg 72dpi at least 600 pixels in width, weighing up to 2 MB. In their assessment, the experts of the three “promoter” of Canon professionals, educators and journalists from the IED-D La Repubblica, which take into account the consistency with the theme, the originality of the idea, the effectiveness of the project and the technical quality : The best project will be published on the websites of Canon, IED and D-La Repubblica. Then follow the selection interviews among admitted students for the award of the scholarship.

TEN DAYS OF TIME – Finally, the dates: The deadline for the submission of applications, photographic projects for the scholarship included is Sunday January 26, 2014 ( diei days from today) by February 7 will make the selection interviews and February 20 the first lesson.

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