Introduction to Street Photography
Influences
A course by Gustavo Minas , Photographer
About the video: Influences
Overview
“Now you will know some of the influences that, with your work, helped me in the search for a personal style. I will talk about names like Carlos Moreira, Harry Gruyaert and Gueorgui Pinkhassov. I believe that influences are fundamental in the construction of your language. Of course, it is not a matter of copying the work of those who inspire you, but of accumulating resources that increase your sensitivity and help you to react and solve visual problems.”
In this video lesson Gustavo Minas addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Street Photography. Learn how to create visual narratives out of everyday life and make an urban photoshoot.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences In this class, I will talk about three photographers who inspired me in my work. In addition to photography, music, cinema and literature are great sources of inspiration for me. The arts increase your visual repertoire and feed your imagination to increase sensitivity and be more attentive to scenes with the potential to be transformed into strong images on the streets. The first photographer I want to introduce is Carlos Moreira. He is a São Paulo photographer with whom I studied in 2009. It completely transformed my photography. He is classic and mainly photographs São Paulo w...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Street Photography
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Documentary Photography, Lifestyle Photography, Outdoor Photography, Photography
Gustavo Minas
A course by Gustavo Minas
Gustavo Minas was born in 1981 in Cássia, a small city located in the State of Minas Gerais. After receiving a degree in journalism from the State University of Londrina, he went on to study the language and history of photography under Carlos Moreira in São Paulo and has been photographing the urban scenes of the cities he visits since 2009.
He currently works as a freelance journalist and photographer based in Brasília as well as teaching workshops across Brazil and abroad. In 2017, his photo series Rodoviária won the Picture of the Year LATAM award, in the category "The Future of Cities," and in 2019, he published his first book Maximum Shadow Minimal Light with Edition Lammerhuber, which was also exhibited in Hamburg that same year.
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