The 5th International Photography Festival of Paraty receives on Saturday (26/09), the workshop "Deconditioning of Looking" , Claudio Feijoo. Performed successfully for many years, seeks to develop the look of the participant, expanding its repertoire of production and reading of the image. Exercise different forms of "look, see and see," reflecting on the different possibilities in a photographic approach. The proposal is to discuss the relationship with your photographer's creative process, inciting participants to know themselves more deeply by reading the symbolic visual language provides.

The photographer Fernando Rabelo and professor of photography ECO / UFRJ Teresa Bastos interviewed Claudio Feijoo.

The workshop will offer you in Paraty in focus is the work that has been developing for almost 20 years for various audiences. What is the relevance of it specifically for those who work with photography?

We are creative ... but often fall into the creative automated, it is no longer being creative. Being creative is to find yourself all the time - is to be present. The photograph as a means allows us to express what we do not have clear to ourselves. Many people make the mistake of trying, through a rigorous technical field, expressing their thoughts, with the assumption that the world take note. This position excludes the other, expecting him to a role of a mere observer - no opinion or repertoire. The creative photographer and has the limits of their expertise and their equipment co-authors of their work. The observer is also a co-author of our work.

Sometimes we see things, but not see. How to develop the perceptual ability to look and really see?

The work of Deconditioning not only includes the Look look ... this is our metaphor. You can not make a significant picture that has emerged only a look, attentive or not. You need to shoot in full, you must be imbued with all that surrounds us. We are developing human beings, we are never ready. We are creatures-creators rather than the Creator.

We are now living in a society increasingly media and simulated in which not only conceive the world with images, but in metamorfoseamos in images. This "reality" somehow does not promote an interaction between people. In your opinion, like trying to rescue this close connection between individuals just from the photograph?

This issue is critical that you put. The idea of ​​pre-Socratic Essence X Appearance is there ... our world is becoming an image of himself, and within it we are lost - which in fact: not aparentamos be, we are! Our society is fascinated with the mirror - narcisou up. And the evil of Narcissus is that he, when he looks in the mirror (lake), is not in love with yourself (here we could say that would form the idea of ​​self-love) but by his image. We are sick. But like everything, I like being hopeful, I think we can also be cured. It should say that we are moving to a curious phenomenon is that ... the photographs in fotografarão. It is the mirror looking at Narciso. Think of this idea.

With great accessibility to the picture from the digital process for recovery of the photographer is being threatened, but the "look" it is still perceived and differentiated. Do you believe that this immunity will prevail in the future? And how to develop a look?

I would like the reader of this thinking what is the difference of a scribe for a writer. I think this example answers the question well. And secondly, the development of the look is ... be the development of the techniques are simple: read, listen to music, draw, jump, talk, kiss and love enough. Or treat yourself to complement this workshop to make the look Deconditioning.

Photos: Claudio Feijoo