Topic: photography

Corsi e workshop Imago 2015/2016

Le iscrizioni sono aperte presso Associazione Imago, via Bovio 10, Pisa (imagopisa@tiscali.it – 328 6610814) Continue reading


Innovate your photographic heritage and your future business!

Prof. Fred Truyen of KU Leuven recently published an interesting article on his Digital Culture blog, under the title “Europeana Space Photo pilot: Innovate your photographic heritage … and your future business!” The article tells the commitment the E-Space project is devoting through its Photo Pilot to demonstrating a range of possibilities offered by apps, Europeana API’s and a multitude of tools developed by the open source community to come up with innovative models involving historical and present-day photography, with monetising potential and investment appeal. Continue reading


Photomediations: An Open Book on tour

Photomediations: An Open Book, produced by one of the pilots of the Europeana Space, has recently enjoyed an enthusiastic response from a variety of international audience. Continue reading


African digital collages of past and present

Jepchumba of Africandigitalart.com presents us the digital collage, in Africa a growing form of art that utilises technology to produce a range of artworks, incorporating digital video, animation, photography, animated gif’s and digital photo manipulation. Through digital new stories of Africa emerge, setting an alternative – and often critical – narration against the image of Africa we think to know. Continue reading


Urban Landscape photography and copyright

There’s a big buzz currently going on about the issue of Freedom of Panorama, connected to the neverendig story of copyright in the changing digital world, and particularly connected to photography and to user-generated content. Freedom of Panorama is a … Continue reading


XIII IMAGO PHOTOGRAPHIC MARATHON

Pisa’s cultural association Imago presents its XIII photographic marathon: 12 hours, 4 subjects, 1 passion. The event is taking place in Pisa (and online, for people not able to attend physically), on 16 May 2015, from 9.00 to 21.00 CEST. It is possible to participate both with digital and analogic camera. Attendees will meet at Bar La Tazza d’Oro) at 9.00 o’clock. Continue reading


XIII Maratona Fotografica IMAGO

L’Associazione Culturale Imago di Pisa presenta la sua XIII MARATONA FOTOGRAFICA! La maratona si terrà a Pisa (oppure online per chi non potesse partecipare fisicamente) sabato 16 maggio 2015, dalle ore 9.00 alle ore 21.00, presso il bar “La Tazza d’Oro” in Piazza Clari n°2. La Maratona Fotografica si svolge in un arco di tempo di dodici ore suddiviso in quattro sezioni, corrispondenti a quattro differenti temi da svolgere. Si può partecipare sia con fotocamera analogica che digitale.
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Tomorrows and Yesterdays exhibition feat. Mads Nissen

Photographic exhibition “Tomorrows and Yesterdays: Mads Nissen Meets Europe’s First Photographers” is opening on 13 May 2015 and running till 2 August 2015 at the premises of Arbejdeermuseet, one of the founding members of PHOTOCONSORTIUM. Here, award-winning Danish photographer Mads Nissen will juxtapose the original selection of around 100 early photographs from the All Our Yesterdays show with his own vision and reflections. Continue reading


Photography pilot of E-Space: getting ready for the Hackathon!

There is a huge amount of digitized photographic and cultural heritage available on Europeana – and similar open repositories such as Wikimedia Commons and Flickr Commons – that are just waiting to be reused in innovative new applications. This shared cultural content can be an opportunity, with current technologies, to bring people together, to form a glue of new relations between content owners, educators, cultural heritage institutions, developers, students, stakeholder communities, creative industries. Continue reading


Photomediations: An Open Book

A collaboration between academics from Goldsmiths, University of London, and Coventry University, Photomediations: An Open Book is the outcome of the Open and Hybrid Publishing pilot – which is one of six Europeana Space pilots. Through a comprehensive introduction and four specially commissioned chapters on light, movement, hybridity and networks that include over 200 images, it tells a unique story about the relationship between photography and other media. Continue reading