Since its origins, photography has been deeply entangled with art and society, activating new cognitive possibilities, new methods for thinking, seeing and telling. The ‘strategies of gaze’ that it might arouse are able to move along a line going beyond a consolidated representation of landscape, in order to explore the various qualities of reality. In this sense, this course aims to locate photography within an interstitial space between survey and study of territory, in a multi-disciplinary field, able to ascribe appropriate conditions of existence and a specific level of cognitive effectiveness. Understanding and describing contemporary space presumes a perceptive experience connected to moving around the spot, wandering through paths allowing the students to measure with a new visual dimension of space. Photographing carefully and with persistence, getting closer and turning around the objects will allow the students to develop a visual project, to focus on the different ways to observe and to create images, revive their blurred-by-habit perceptions. Eventually, they will re-discover photography’s ethos: the education - as Làszlò Moholy-Nagy pointed out – to an ‘intensive’ vision.
