The course aims to be a technical, educational, and emotional path, an opportunity for reflection, discussion, and on-site learning about the incomparable set of the Eternal City in the company of a Photographer (Art Historian) and a Lighting Designer (Architect).
The central theme that unites the two research and professional fields is light, understood as a raw material used to create photographic shots and draw visual experiences of lighting design. Light is also a source of inspiration for learning to look at the places and wonders of Rome through the mutations that light can shape, that a lighting designer can create and that a Photographer can learn to read.
The presence of both professionals in the field allows one to fully enjoy the immersive experience of the city’s beauties, learning to use photography as a key to approaching and reading the places and Lighting Design as a tool for understanding the interpretations and reinterpretations of ancient monuments according to modern uses.
The sites chosen for the Route are designed for their ability to exalt this vision and render incredibly evocative images of Rome.
Walk along the Via Sacra in the Roman Forum, climb the slopes of the Palatine Hill to penetrate the Rome of Romulus and the foundation, and stroll through the gardens of the Domus Aurea through the 3D vision made available in the new lost museum with sublime reconstructions of the domus neroniana, lose yourself in the poignant beauty of Bernini’s ecstasy, in the light of Caravaggio, look out from the most beautiful terrace in Rome at the top of Castel S.Angelo, and immerse yourself in the colossal vision of the Flavian Amphitheatre at night, all under the guidance and narration of the lecturers and the complicity of their two different visions.
This course allows participants to take with them the experience of a professional workshop and a vision, that of a city often told by stereotypes of beauty that must instead be approached, penetrated, and read through an accurate analysis of the true key to reading: its Light.
