<i>“It’s not how photographers look at the world that is important. It’s their intimate relationship with it.”</i>
<i>Antoine d’Agata</i>

Magnum Photos, Leica Akademie Italy and Camera – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia are proud to announce a workshop with Antoine d'Agata in Turin on November 5th and 6th as part of their Magnum Masterclass series.

Each participant must bring a small presentation of their existing work. Over two days d’Agata will lead participants through intensive sessions of shooting, reviews, group critiques and editing, to help participants develop their own visual language. Antoine d’Agata will encourage students to develop their voice as a story-teller, guiding students through an assignment, that considers approach, editing, sequencing, and development.

<i>“Through the practice of documentary photography I try to help the students to determinate a proper position inside reality and to confront themselves to it”</i>
<i>Antoine d'Agata</i>

The masterclass will be in English, with a maximum of 15 participants attending, at Camera – Centro Italiano per la Fotografia in Turin.

Program is subject to change, the classes will still be held in case of bad weather.

Cost of masterclass is €490,00

(Travel, accommodation, and other expenses are not included)

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<b>About Antoine d'Agata</b>

Born in Marseilles, Antoine d’Agata left France in 1983 and remained overseas for the next ten years. Finding himself in New York in 1990, he pursued an interest in photography by taking courses at the International Center of Photography, where his teachers included Larry Clark and Nan Goldin.

During his time in New York, in 1991-92, d’Agata worked as an intern in the editorial department of Magnum, but despite his experiences and training in the US, after his return to France in 1993 he took a four-year break from photography. His first books of photographs, De Mala Muerte and Mala Noche, were published in 1998, and the following year Galerie Vu began distributing his work. In 2001 he published Hometown, and won the Niépce Prize for young photographers. He continued to publish regularly: Vortex and Insomnia appeared in 2003, accompanying his exhibition 1001 Nuits, which opened in Paris in September; Stigma was published in 2004, and Manifeste in 2005.

In 2004 d’Agata joined Magnum Photos and in the same year, shot his first short film, Le Ventre du Monde (The World’s Belly); this experiment led to his long feature film Aka Ana, shot in 2006 in Tokyo.

Since 2005 Antoine d’Agata has had no settled place of residence but has worked around the world.