PHOTOWALK: an apocalyptic wasteland Vol.1
© Manuela gjoka, 2023
We need to take pictures because photographers need to pick up the camera, order the elements, make adjustments with extraordinary numbers, and feel that sensation of the other, which has no owner and is unique. After all, what goes into the frame is your decision and what is left out, too.
We must take pictures because that (healthy) obsession must be fed and satiated.
Why Mad Max?
A personal obsession? Probably. A fascination with its decadence.
But perhaps the most important thing about the reason for creating a Photowalk called Mad Max is the invitation to the students to look for images based on a concept created by others, but that you must feed, as if the assignment were a storyboard to develop the look, the sensibility and recreate that post-apocalyptic aesthetic without altering anything of the urban that surrounds us, in a single street, here in Miami.
our photographers: alessio Latorraca, Alfredo Suels, frida getzel, george korniotis, manuela gjoka, melissa guerrero and Michel Catalan.
A photowalk is a curated space-time for a group of photographers to develop a photographic work in a determined time and area. It is free drawing but with technical, aesthetic, and conceptual orientation as required by the students. We do them in places you might never go or places that, because they are so obvious, you would not consider them either; in the end, it all depends on the edge with which we approach that momentum. Back at the school, we downloaded the photos and generated an enriching constructive criticism session, where all students participated, moderated by the instructor.
What you see here is part of the result of that process.
