Photography Workshop and Tour in Venice
El Felze: discover where and how the Gondola is built
An exciting three days workshop, that will guide you to photograph everything is relative to the art of design and construction of the Gondola
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Workshop Fee: 600 Euro for three days of teaching (up to 2 persons)
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Workshop dates are based on student presence in Venice
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Photo skill: Photographer who already have a good technical knowledge
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In the cost of the workshop are not included travel costs, meals and accommodation
For further information & to discuss your requirements please send an e-mail to School of Seeing
Meeting and ending point must be decided by mutual convenient appointment
The workshop will be distributed equally between a theoretical and practical approach, hands-on side, where students will have the possibility to shoot images that will be later re-worked in the digital lab. In this way, you will always have new files to work on and the possibility to develop your own personal project, catching the spirit of the place, telling stories trough images.
Some information on what we will photograph:
In Venetian vocabulary Squero is the workshop where small wooden boats are made. The dark and asymmetrical form of the gondola begins in the cantiere, the template of the boat, with the two vertical elements, aste or dritti (stems), onto which the timber and the bottom of the boat are fixed.
The aste, the ordinate (sections), the corbe and the volti (parts of the frame), the sanconi (curved elements of the frame), the piane (straight parts of the frame), the sercio (bulwark).
The names and the pieces and the types of wood multiply as the boat is gradually formed.
The
Gondola itself is the product of another
complex system, the result of
contributions from very different
trades: it is the
Boat,
the
Oar, the
Forcola, the
Brass Horses,
the
Felze,
the
Ferro,
the
Cushions,
the
Shoemakers, the
Carved
and
Gilded
Decorations,
the seating for the passengers, the
Hat
and the
Clothes
of the
Gondolier.
El felze was a removable cabin placed at the centre of the gondola, a shelter for the passengers in winter, at night or in case of wind and rain; it was only used on the boat when necessary; it had a front opening with a small door, small side windows and a curved roof.
The structure was complex and richly decorated in wood and metal. It was made by the felzeri and other craftsmen. Once every gondola, expensive or modest, had a felze, but a few decades ago it fell into disuse because of its incompatibility with the modern-day function of the gondola.
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