Visual Poetry Diary: tell stories with photos and verses
Playing with The Word
A course by Lina Botero , Photographer and Poet
About the video: Playing with The Word
Overview
“Let me show you a practical exercise that will later help you develop your theme for the project. It's like a kind of brainstorming but in reverse. The idea is not to think. Through a practical exercise such as "automatic writing", you will exercise your mind and play with your own censor to rescue images that transcend reason.”
In this video lesson Lina Botero addresses the topic: Playing with The Word, 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
“play with the word In this lesson I am going to talk about one of my favorite creative processes, which also serves as a methodology to remove those ideas that remain between the censorship of our mind and the shyness of our creative thinking. So I'll start by telling you what poetry has been for me and how automatic writing it has become the guiding thread of my way of creating. Let's see it. personally poetry for me It has been a way of freeing myself from many limits and structures that fall on the forms or the duty of being of things. For me poetry is a form of freedom, to play with the...”
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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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