Visual Poetry Diary: tell stories with photos and verses
How Does What We Read Look Like?
A course by Lina Botero , Photographer and Poet
About the video: How Does What We Read Look Like?
Overview
“Poetry suggests images. One of the most wonderful aspects of poetry is its ability to create images in our minds. Images that allow us to get out of universes that are too specific or too rational to start dreaming. In this lesson, I'll talk about all those possible images that result from reading poetry, and we'll create a mood board with our favorite poem to start warming up our gaze and getting it ready to carry out the course project.”
In this video lesson Lina Botero addresses the topic: How Does What We Read Look Like?, 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
“How does what we read look like? In this lesson we will make a visual map about our favorite poem. It is one of the tools I use to try to get out of the literal when i'm thinking about building images from poetry. When we read poetry, we are reading images. that are contained in those words. Images that are also interpreted according to our context, to the songs we have heard or to what we have lived and studied. Also, it is important to know if we know or don't know of its author or its author. These images that are contained in the verses They can be from common and daily situations of th...”
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Course summary for: Visual Poetry Diary: tell stories with photos and verses
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Category
Photography & Video, Writing -
Areas
Digital Photography, Fine-Art Photography, Lifestyle Photography, Portrait Photography, Self-Portrait Photography
Lina Botero
A course by Lina Botero
Lina Botero studied Audiovisual Communication. Everything she does is mediated by her need to express. Either with the word, with the fixed or moving image, with sound or with some physical or digital format, in which a story can fit.
As a visual storyteller, she has collaborated with different digital and print media in Colombia, directed audiovisual projects, portrayed artists and festivals, and made still photography for movies and web series. At the same time, she has dedicated herself to capturing her country with her camera and keeping a diary at every moment of her life, sharing part of these records on social networks.
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