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PHOTOGRAPHY

Course description 

Our goal is to offer our guests a unique photography adventure. Our tours, photography holidays and workshops are designed to meet the needs of professional photographers and photo enthusiasts looking for the perfect shot or those who simply intend to start approaching the world of photography through an innovative and exciting travel experience. The tours are designed with the mind of a travel photographer. We want to find the best light and the most amazing sceneries and traditions.

We will learn

Photography goes beyond a simple click it will become a vehicle for establishing new and unexpected relationships with people and places:

  • composition

  • travel photography

  • street photography

  • food photography

  • business tips: how to promote yourself and get published

ABOUT THE TEACHER – ROBERTO ZAMPINO

Roberto is a professional documentary and travel photographer. He has lived in Italy, the UK and Cyprus working as a photographer and teacher. He has combined with photography his passions for travelling, extreme sports, discovery and story telling. He has worked on several short and long term projects published in different countries. His need to understand culture led him up into the Bolivian Andes, in hidden Inca communities, as well as on boats on the ocean for months to understand the life of Sicilian fisherman. In the UK he worked on a project called People of London , gathering more than 800 portraits and stories of people living in the big smoke.

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“I am a documentary & portrait photographer – I lived and worked as a freelance and photography teacher in Cyprus, Italy and London. My speciality is story telling photography, extreme sport and travel photography. I try to shoot combining engagement with my subject and a unique, never detached vision and esthetic. I am an “out-there nomad photographer” with the particularity of being able to adapt to any environment and situation, creating bonds with the subjects of my photography.”

Roberto Zampino 

We will visit

Exploring the most inspiring places on the southern coast of the Sicily

 

  • Siracusa

  • Ortigia

  • Catania

  • Taormina

  • Marzamemi

  • Etna

  • Trekking among the caves and gorges

“Adventure is worthwhile”

Aristotle