NEWS
“Hunters” by David Chancellor
“Hunters” by David Chancellor, an International documentary photographer published Worldwide, is an impressive series, exploring the relationship between man and animal, and has now been released as a monograph by Schilt Publishing.
"At the beginning of the 20th century, East African hunting safaris became a fashionable pursuit among members of the privileged classes, particularly in Britain and the United States. The completion of the Uganda Railway in 1901 provided easier access to the interior highlands of British East Africa (now Kenya), where large game, especially elephants, lions, buffalo and rhinoceros, was plentiful. The white hunter served these paying customers as guide, teacher, and protector…"
(retrieved from http://www.instituteartist.com)
REVIEWS
5th Roundtable session C.F.M. - D.T.W.: Cláudio Reis and Carlos Lobo
Held in the library auditorium of FAUP, this last Thursday, April 18, another session took place of our Roundtables cycle D.T.W. integrated in the Photography and Multimedia Communication course (C.F.M.) of the 4th and 5th Years in FAUP.
In this 5th session we had as guest authors Cláudio Reis (1) and Carlos Lobo (2) who helped moderating this roundtable through an exploratory and critical dialogue based on the work presented by Claudio.
Claudio’s presentation had as motto "Photography as a second glance, from trace to concept" through which he explained his on going photography project "Coa" and it was based on this project that later began the interesting discussion about the possibility of using photography as a means to decode the creative process in architecture.
The series is a documentary art photography project that seeks to communicate, on the one hand, the unique experience of that place in Foz Coa, selecting in its landscape the traces - artefacts and natural elements - responsible for triggering the most significant ideas and impressions coming from that experience. On the other hand, even though the photography project has its own autonomy, it is strongly correlated with the thinking of the discipline and practice of architecture: the design process and construction of the Côa Museum by Camilo Rebelo and Tiago Pimentel and also very linked to the conceptual issues related to the process of architectural idea’s materialization and its communication through the use of image.
(1) Cláudio Reis (Vila do Conde, 1980) http://www.umclaudio.com
(2) Carlos Lobo (Guimarães, 1974) http://www.carloslobo.net
Pedro Leão Neto
Read full version in PT at Blog Espaço F-FAUP.
INTERVIEWS
Interviews
In this section we will be interviewing both new and known photographers trying to communicate diverse processes of decision-making and different strategies of work that can be seen in contemporary photography. Authors will be invited to explain to us how each photographic project is a combination of conscious and intuitive decisions and how the context of the work has influenced their ideas and intentions. Finally, we will be asking about the most significant influences, personal research interests, contemporary challenges for young photographers and other similar subjects that may be of interest.
EXHIBITIONS & STREET ART
Exhibitions and Street Art
In this section we will be giving you the latest news on exhibitions organized by scopio Network and on other events, projects and works related to Contemporary Street Art. These can be performances, talks by artists, architects and citizens at large about the value of street art and how it brings new ways to understand, perceive and act on the city that surrounds us. Young artists works and exhibitions will be presented showing how these are challenging art by situating it on non-art contexts or transforming the traditional exhibition places.
FLASH
ISSUES
Aboveground - Architecture #1 1/3 + Addendum
This first issue of scopio features Filip Dujardin, Manuel Graça Dias, Hélène Binet, Virgílio Ferreira, Carlos Lobo, Pedro Bandeira, Eszter Steierhoffer, João Salaviza, Michelle Domingos, Patrícia Azevedo Santos, Alexandre Delmar, Luís Ribeiro da Silva, Álvaro Domingues, José Carneiro, Luís Tavares Pereira, Rui Tavares and Susana Lourenço Marques
Aboveground - City #1 2/3
This second issue of scopio features Paulo Catrica, Philippe Ruault, André Cepeda, Nuno Grande, Dietrich Neumann, Ema Sara Ribeiro, Virgílio Ferreira, Cristina Sevla, Carlos Machado, Maroš Krivý, Mariana Pestana, Beatrice Galilee, Gonçalo Dias, Ângela Frias, Rui Neto, Andrzej Maciejewski, Isabel Coimbra, Maria João Lopes, Susana Ventura, Miguel Pinho and Inês Moreira.
LIMITED EDITIONS
For each issue released by scopio® magazine, we invite a recognized author to sell a high quality Limited Edition print for a very low price.
All Limited Editions will be printed in a recognized studio, with a certificate of authenticity, hand signed by the author.
All Limited Editions are printed with the presence of the authors to insure the quality of the prints.
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Aboveground - Architecture #1 1/3
Photography by Virgílio Ferreira
Title: "Liminal Village" (download descriptive memory )
Artist: Virgílio Ferreira (download CV )
Year: 2006
Edition: 1/100 (Hand Signed by the author)
Process: Archival inkjet prints. The image size is 27X27cm printed on A3 on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Paper - photo rag bright white 310 gsm 100% cotton.
Price: 100 € (6% taxes and shipping not included)
Aboveground - City #1 2/3
Photography by André Cepeda
Title: "Untitled, from the series "Ontem"" (download descriptive memory )
Artist: André Cepeda (download CV )
Year: 2008
Edition: 1/20 (Hand Signed by the author)
Process: Archival inkjet prints on A2 (40 x 60 cm)
Price: 200 € (6% taxes and shipping not included)
CONTESTS
scopio International Photography Contests
SCOPIO will be organizing several international photography contests and for each issue there will be, at least, one contest related to its theme which will be published in scopio magazine and in the web (see here ) encouraging, with this, the public to register on the website Espaço F-FAUP and to publish their photographic projects there. Thus, in each issue we shall announce the theme for the next one in order to prompt your participation in the contest and register in Espaço F-FAUP, and give more opportunities for new authors to present projects that can add richness to the contents of the themes being explored throughout the various publications. It will also allow authors to participate and register projects before the deadline of the contest.
We have a DEDICATED GALLERY for showing the best photographic projects we have received at http://cargocollective.com/scopio.
Aboveground - Territory: closed
1st Prize:
Boaz Aharonovitch
Project: Germany 1945-2008
Honorable Mention:
Dara Mcgrath
Project: Edgelands
João Margalha
Project: Terrain Vague
Jury:
Pedro Leão Neto
Filip Dujardin
Tiago Casanova
Frederico Campos
City of Guimarães: Visual narratives about European Capital of Culture 2012: closed
The 1st Edition of CITYSCOPIO – ESPAÇO F - FAUP International Photography Narrative Contest has as title "CITY OF GUIMARÃES: VISUAL NARRATIVES ABOUT EUROPEAN CAPITAL OF CULTURE (CEC) 2012". The visual narratives submitted to contest should make use of the photography image in an exploratory way, as a communication vehicle of the richness and variety of the territory and city of Guimarães. Deadline: 31st December 2012.
The contest is currently under evaluation by the jury panel.
More information at the contest website.
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LINKS
Academic Institutions
The goal of Espaço F-FAUP site is to provide a platform on the Internet that supports a range of activities related with the use of photography as a critical documentary tool or a visual research instrument focused on the city, architecture, art and technology. This site will be connected in the future to other sites, as scopio, that help to strengthen the momentum of the platform and facilitate or encourage communication between different people and groups who are not directly connected with the U. Porto, but have a common interest in photography and the research work and teaching of this subject undertaken by this academic group.
Associations
CAAA - Centro para os Assuntos da Arte e Arquitectura
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ABOUT
scopio Network
What is it?
SCOPIO Network is an independent platform intertwining research group CCRE-FAUP, SCOPIO Magazine and Cityscopio Cultural Association. It intends to support diverse forums and editorial initiatives, ideas, projects, competitions and workshops related to our photography research and editorial agendas.
Aims and Objectives
SCOPIO Network aims to hold the interest of different people and research coming from various groups, institutions and fields of study with an interest on art and documentary photography in regards to its conception as an instrument to question Architecture, City and Territory universe.
This means understanding Architecture as an extended discipline and practice with an interest, on one side, in the real space and its experiences, exploring new spatial forms and architectural codes, and on the other side, in how architecture operates within larger systems: socio-cultural, technical, and historical.
We intend, with this strategy, to promote the awareness and reflection upon art and documentary photography in regards to its conception as an instrument to question Architecture, City and Territory universe. This means understanding Architecture as an extended discipline and practice with an interest, on one side, in the real space and its experiences, exploring new spatial forms and architectural codes, and on the other side, in how architecture operates within larger systems: socio-cultural, technical, and historical.
Our main goals are:
1) to encourage the development of knowledge on art and documentary photography and architectural culture, cooperating with national and international research groups, policy makers and creative communities;
2) to promote knowledge transfer, transdisciplinarity, participatory live events or other activities.
Editorials / Sections
NEWS
In this section we will be giving you the latest briefs on diverse events, projects and works related to architecture, art and documentary photography practice and research. This can mean announcing the work of knew photographers, interesting books and photo-books, exhibitions, workshops, courses, conferences and other similar events or actions.
REVIEWS
In this section we will be reviewing diverse types of work related to contemporary art and documentary photography with the objective of promoting the awareness and reflection upon photography in regards to its conception as an instrument to question Architecture, understood as an extended discipline and practice with an interest, on one side, in the real space and its experiences, exploring new spatial forms and architectural codes, and on the other side, in how architecture operates within larger systems: socio-cultural, technical, and historical.
INTERVIEWS
In this section we will be interviewing both new and known photographers trying to communicate diverse processes of decision-making and different strategies of work that can be seen in contemporary photography. Authors will be invited to explain to us how each photographic project is a combination of conscious and intuitive decisions and how the context of the work has influenced their ideas and intentions. Finally, we will be asking about the most significant influences, personal research interests, contemporary challenges for young photographers and other similar subjects that may be of interest.
EXHIBITIONS AND STREET ART
In this section we will be giving you the latest news on exhibitions organized by scopio Network and on other events, projects and works related to Contemporary Street Art. These can be performances, talks by artists, architects and citizens at large about the value of street art and how it brings new ways to understand, perceive and act on the city that surrounds us. Young artists works and exhibitions will be presented showing how these are challenging art by situating it on non-art contexts or transforming the traditional exhibition places.
FLASH
In this section we will be announcing the cultural agenda highlighting the most significant events related to related to architecture, art and documentary photography practice and research. These can take place in the city, in the country, or at international level.
Editors
PEDRO LEÃO NETO
is the founder and editorial coordinator of SCOPIO Network. He is Director of scopio magazine and coordinator of CCRE research group in the Faculty of Architecture in Porto University where he is senior lecturer in Photography and CAAD courses. He has been responsible for organizing several conferences, exhibitions and workshops as the second edition of the International Seminar "On the surface: Public Space and Architectural Images in Debate" 2012.
CCRE
BRUNO MOREIRA
JOAQUIM MORENO
PAULO CATRICA
PEDRO BANDEIRA
scopio Magazine
FREDERICO CAMPOS
MIGUEL PINHO
SUSANA VENTURA
TIAGO CASANOVA
scopio magazine
Presentation
scopio© magazine is a semiannual publication on Photography, Architecture and Public Space, associated to the Cityscopio Cultural Association and the Espaço F-FAUP, from CCRE research group.
The choice of the name scopio for this (maga)zine is related directly to the word’s etymology – a Greek root meaning instrument for viewing trough a hollow organ, thus being connected to the act of observing and capturing light trough the camera.
Mission
The publication of scopio intends with this action to create an editorial line related to photography and image of Architecture and Public Space.
We intend, with this strategy, to promote the awareness and reflection upon photography image in regards to its conception as (a) an instrument to question the real space and its experiences, (b) a support and technique for the mediatization and reception of architecture by a wide public and also (c) an instrument for exploring spatial forms and new architecture.
scopio will be published in a book and magazine format with a structure inspired by the small alternative publications known as bookzines and zines.
scopio’s main interest is to publish visual narratives, texts or other related works coming from several authors, in which photography is used as a research instrument.
Publisher
Cityscópio – Associação Cultural
Rua da Cidreira 291, 4465-076 Matosinhos
Portugal
info@cityscopio.com
http://www.cityscopio.com/
Editorial Team
Director
Pedro Leão Neto
pedro.neto@cityscopio.com
Assistant Director
Tiago Casanova
tiago.casanova@cityscopio.com
Design Director
Né Santelmo
ne.santelmo@cityscopio.com
Production Manager Director
Bruno Moreira
bruno.moreira@cityscopio.com
Sales and Marketing Director
Cristina Assis
cristina.assis@cityscopio.com
Contest Director
Frederico Campos
frederico.campos@cityscopio.com
Layout and ePub
José Teixeira
ztx@netcabo.pt
Print and Web Design
Paulo Fonseca
contact@paulofonseca.me
Bruno Moreira
bruno.moreira@cityscopio.com
Cityscopio
Andrea Vieira
Bruno Moreira
Cristina Assis
Frederico Campos
João Castro Ferreira
Miguel Pinho
Né Santelmo
Pedro Leão Neto
Tiago Casanova
Scientific Committee
Álvaro Domingues
Manuel Fernandes de Sá
Pedro Gadanho
Present Edition Collaborators
Inês Moreira
Miguel Pinho
Susana Ventura
Invited Authors
Paulo Catrica
Philippe Ruault
André Cepeda
Nuno Grande
Dietrich Neumann
Ema Sara Ribeiro
Virgílio Ferreira
Cristina Sevla
Carlos Machado
Maroš Krivý
Mariana Pestana
Beatrice Galilee
Gonçalo Dias
Ângela Frias
Rui Neto
Andrzej Maciejewski
Isabel Coimbra
Maria João Lopes
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