Photography 2025
XIII International Photography Workshop
July 4 to 19, 2025
Director: Hisao Suzuki
Teaching Team: Júlia de Balle, Theo Domini, Fumi Suzuki
Duration: 15 days
Teaching load: 115 hours
Open Program load: 6 hours
Level: Beginners / Advanced
Language: Spanish / English
Place: Barberí Space, Olot (Girona), Spain
Conditions
Places available: 24 places
Profile: The course targets people over 18 from any creative discipline.
Registration: It is necessary to fill out the form at Registration.
Registration fee: 50 euros (non-refundable).
Admission process: All those registered will take part.
Admission criteria: Assessment of CV portfolio.
Tuition fee: 700 euros.
Inclusions: The tuition fee includes the costs of the workshop program. The participant assumes the expenses related to travel, maintenance, and accommodation.
Method of payment: Through the Stripe platform.
Certificates of participation: Certificates issued by RCR.
Terms
Admission process by open call
First Call
Friday, March 14, 2025. Registrations open.
Friday, April 25, 2025. Registration deadline.
Wednesday, April 30, 2025. Communication of admissions, waiting list and denials.
Wednesday, May 7, 2025. Tuition payment deadline.
Second Call
Friday, May 9, 2025. Notification of waiting list admissions. Registrations open.
Friday, May 16, 2025. Registration deadline.
Friday, May 23, 2025. Tuition payment deadline.
Friday, May 31, 2025. Deadline for cancellations.
XIII International Photography Workshop
Friday, July 4, 2025: Start of the workshop.
Saturday, July 12, 2025: Excursion to the new Perelada winery.
Saturday, July 19, 2025: End of the workshop.
Aim
The aim is to expand theoretical and practical knowledge about photography in the representation of space and architecture, starting from the approach to the work of RCR Arquitectes and the photography of Hisao Suzuki. The exercises combine reflection on the work process and its implementation from a conscious approach to space and everything that surrounds us, thus contributing to the awakening of the senses and stimulating the creation of communicative, adaptable images to the new digital formats and social media trends, and that make us experience, want to touch, listen and be in this place.
We will delve deeper into interdisciplinarity, integrating participants from the Photography workshop into the groups of the Architecture and Landscape workshop who will contribute to their projects the ability to communicate with suggestive images that transmit atmospheres and intentions.
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Program
Creative Workshop. Group work in an exercise shared with the Architecture and Landscape Workshop to contribute to communicating a creative proposal suggestively and effectively through the production of photographs, putting the knowledge learned into practice. Joint visit to the project site.
Internal Program. Conferences on the camera and photography and editing and publishing, and specific to Audiovisual on audiovisual language, storytelling and editing: work workflow with Adobe Premiere Pro.
Reviews. Internal corrections with Hisao Suzuki and the teaching team. Reviews with RCR Arquitectes.
Excursion to RCR’s work. A guided tour of the Perelada wineries, where the keys to the project will be analyzed.
Open Program. Thematic lecture series on art and architecture.
Computer Skills and Technical Requirements
Software
Adobe Photoshop and Adobe InDesign.
Technical Requirements
Camera and tripod (recommended).
Computer with recommended minimum screen resolution of 1440px.
Updated browser to access Google Drive for storage and synchronisation services of the workshop contents, collaborative work and archiving of exercises.
Install WhatsApp instant messaging on the mobile phone for information and organisation through RCR chat groups.
Exercise: Sharing
Shared creativity refers to relational processes where different fields of knowledge are integrated. It allows complex problems to be addressed from an interdisciplinary perspective. With this idea in mind we will approach the exercises of the Architecture and Landscape workshop in a transdisciplinary way, contributing from the visual arts a sensory and analytical component to the creative process. In this way, we seek participation, exchanging ideas, cooperation and mutual teamwork learning.
Exercise directed by Hisao Suzuki with the coordination and tutoring of Júlia de Balle and the assistance of Fumi Suzuki.
Shared exercise with Architecture and Landscape: The Santa Margarida Volcano in La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park
Pending description.
Sketch: La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park Management Centre, Series 1, June 2024. Gouache with ink and pencil on Canson Imagine paper 200 g/m². 23×32,5 cm. 24-203_E02
Videoclip 10 seconds 2024
Each participant chose a word and filmed a 10-second clip summarizing their experience.
soltar – María Teresa Castro · patience – Adrien Guitard · connection – Slavena Todorova · reflexionar – Inés Valdovino · descubrir – Isabel Vilalta · aprender – José Francisco Estévez · permanecer – Zaickz Moz · conversation – Kane Liou · seuils – Quentin Besson · exploration – Sara Bartús · calma – Brenda Soto
Music: McEnroe – La Electricidad
Intern Program · Barberí Space · Olot · Conference Francesc Xavier Puig i Oliveras · Monday, July 7, 2025
Exercise: The Santa Margarida Volcano in La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park · Conference · La Garrotxa: Rough Land, Broken Land, Land of Volcanoes · Francesc Xavier Puig i Oliveras
Francesc Xavier Puig i Oliveras (Girona, Spain, 1965) is an agronomist from the Higher Technical School of Agricultural Engineers of the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Since 1992, he has been part of the technical team of the Departments responsible for the environment of the Catalan Government, where he has developed his professional career, mainly in the planning and management of protected natural areas, assessment of environmental impact and urban planning. From 1996 to 2012, he taught as an associate professor of environmental impact assessment, attached to the Ecology area of the Department of Environmental Sciences of the Faculty of Sciences at the University of Girona. Since 2002 he has been Director of La Garrotxa Volcanic Zone Natural Park.
Teaching Team
Director
Hisao Suzuki (Yamagata, Japan, 1957) graduated from the Tokyo School of Photography in 1979. Fascinated by the architecture of Antoni Gaudí, he arrived in Barcelona in 1982 and settled there. In 1986 he began to collaborate with the magazine El Croquis and became its main photographer; in this way, he contributed to the recognition of the publication as the means of disseminating contemporary architecture with the most international prestige. His photographs have also been published in numerous books and other global architecture and design magazines.
General Coordination and Tutor
Júlia de Balle (Barcelona, Spain, 1986) holds a degree in Audiovisual Communication from Pompeu Fabra University (UPF) in Barcelona (2009). After completing her studies in Berlin, she joined the RCR Arquitectes team as a communication and audiovisual creative coordinator. She has directed two documentaries and currently combines work for external clients as a producer and editor of her projects.
Assistant
Fumi Suzuki (Premià de Mar, Spain, 1990) holds a diploma in Social Education from the University of Barcelona (2011). Since 2020, she has been collaborating as a photography assistant to Hisao Suzuki, accompanying him in various reports and organizing the photographic archive of the NUAA Gallery / Hisao Suzuki Photography.
