Narrative Photo Essays with Models and Sets
Project "Corsairs"
A course by Samuka Marinho , Photographer, Illustrator, and Editor
About the video: Project "Corsairs"
Overview
“Get to know the "Corsários" project. A unique graphic experiment in the visual medium, resulting from two full years between research and finalization, which generated more than 400 scenes. The project was a differentiated way of studying, experimenting and presenting a photographic portfolio. ”
In this video lesson Samuka Marinho addresses the topic: Project "Corsairs", which is part of the Domestika online course: Narrative Photo Essays with Models and Sets. Learn to use lighting, props, and characters in your photoshoots to tell inspiring stories with your camera.
Partial transcription of the video
“Project "Corsairs" In this class, I want to talk about a personal project which will serve as the basis for the final project of the course: the "Corsairs" project. It was a 2018 project which took about two years to complete. With the help of a script, storyboard and some concept art, I developed 400 complete scenes, a fictional photographic project with the theme of piracy. Some scenes in the project were simpler, just a person's face. Others were more complex, with 10, 20, 30 people. In these images with a lot of figuration, I took the trouble to also be an extra. Most characters who hav...”
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Course summary for: Narrative Photo Essays with Models and Sets
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Communication, Digital Photography, Fine-Art Photography, Narrative, Photo Retouching, Photography Post-production, Storytelling

Samuka Marinho
A course by Samuka Marinho
Samuka Marinho is an illustrator, photographer, and photo editor whose work has been featured on book and album covers, exhibited in galleries, and included in specialized publications. He has also collaborated on advertising campaigns awarded with the Cannes Gold Lion. But his most ambitious project to date is Corsários, a 192-page photographic narrative depicting the so-called Golden Age of Piracy in over 400 carefully crafted scenes.
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