Personals | Interviews
ARTHUR by Olivia Georgia THURSDAY / / Female future
Date: September 22 [Thursday]
Time: 17h/18h30
Where: House of Culture [R. Geralda 117]
Former student of mathematics at Oxford and photojournalism at the London College of Printing, London, Olivia Arthur English as many of the 80 generation became interested in colonial India and its relations with the United Kingdom. But it went further, and also became involved with social issues in the Middle East. His latest work Beyond the Veil tells the stories of young Iranian women, their relations with the Islamic republic and its implications more contemporary. In the series In the name of God masterfully portrayed the "untouchables" Rammamis central India, prevented from entering temples by Hindu radicals.
In seeking to understand the role of women in society, their human relations arranged between East and West, Olivia Arthur, who was recently admitted as an associate at Magnum Photo, also developed the series The Middle Distance. To talk to this young photographer focused on the future of human interactivity, brought another thinker concerned with these relationships, the curator and professor at FAAP, Georgia Farms. Post-graduate degree in Anthropology from the University of Salamanca in Spain, a region that was strongly influenced by Arabic, Pernambuco Farms specializes in understanding the feminine image in the photograph. His book Man Ray and the Image of Women is a classic in that direction.
Workshop
Olivia ARTHUR / / Intimate Spaces - Taking pictures of a family or someone at home
Date: 24 and September 25 [Saturday and Sunday]
Time is now: 09h/17h
Where: Marriah [R. Dr Pereira 33]
R $: 510
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When it comes to people, intimacy is key word. Photographing everyday life and enter the perimeter of the other is a big challenge for photographers. Working in intimate spaces, building trust and creating a comfort zone between photographer and photographed? Olivia Arthur, with his experience and a wonderful work around the issue of the woman will visit with students in a group of embroiderers community near Paraty, to photograph their daily lives and record their intimate spaces, with the subtlety, respect and sensitivity are registered trademarks of their production.
* Workshop in English
Program:
. Presentation of the coordinator and students
. Discussion on documentary photography involving people
. Photographing everyday life: the perimeter of the other
. Working intimacy: the conquest of confidence
. The importance of the comfort zone between the photographer / photographed
. Output field for community embroiderers
. Talk about the material produced
What to bring to the course:
. Digital photographic equipment
. Laptop computer (optional)
Olivia was born in London in 1980 and lives in the UK. She majored in mathematics at Oxford University and photojournalism at the London College of Printing. In 2006 she participated for one year of residence at Fabrica in Italy. In 2008 she joined the Magnum Photos. Olivia develops an intense work focused on India and the Middle East, for many years engaged in the issue of gender and cultural difrenças between east and west. His work has been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Bruce Silverstein Gallery in New York, Nature Morte in New Delhi and at various festivals of photography. In 2010 she received the Vic Odden Award from the Royal Photographic Society. OjodePez She also received the Award for Human Values (2008) and the Inge Morath Award from Magnum Photos (2007). 
