Visual Poetry Diary: tell stories with photos and verses

Overview

“Today, I invent words to name what I do. I usually call myself a "poetographer", because I believe that there is no reason to have only one way of creating, but it was not always like that. Before, I saw the job of being a photographer and my love for writing separately. In this lesson, I will tell you a little about that career and that link with photography, newspapers and poetry; and about how that sum of languages became my way of creating and interpreting the world. ”

In this video lesson Lina Botero addresses the topic: About Me, which is part of the Domestika online course: Visual Poetry Diary: tell stories with photos and verses. Learn to tell stories by combining different languages, such as words, video, and photography to express your emotions in an original way..

Partial transcription of the video

“My intention is to go out to seduce. Move my body as if my fingers were walking the asphalt, as if these fingers who have written weightless words daily now go jogging. Hello, my name is Lina Botero. I am a photographer, poet and collector of notebooks, light bulbs, matchboxes... In general I consider myself a collector of everything that contains a story. I studied Audiovisual Communication in Cali, Colombia, my hometown, and I think that's why everything I do is mediated by the need to communicate, either from the word, the video or the image. I'm lying while I have a camera. I focus on t...”

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Course summary for: Visual Poetry Diary: tell stories with photos and verses

• Level: Beginner
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• 18350 students
• 4 units
• 13 lessons (2h 5m)
• 8 downloads

• Category

  Photography & Video, Writing

• Areas

  Digital Photography, Fine-Art Photography, Lifestyle Photography, Portrait Photography, Self-Portrait Photography