“I don’t try to document the world as it is. I create the world as I want to see it.”- Kourtney RoyThis immersive workshop with Kourtney Roy invites participants to explore how reality can be reimagined through colour, performance and staged photography in the most cinematic city in the world, Venice.Over four days, participants will create constructed visual fictions inspired by everyday Venetian backdrops such as canals, laundromats, narrow passages or vaporetto stops, transforming these familiar places into surreal stages where humour, melancholy and absurdity meet.Venice, suspended between water and sky, becomes both a set and a character. Its reflections, textures and naturally theatrical light provide the perfect raw material for exploring the tension between truth and artifice, spontaneity and control, the real and the imagined.This workshop is not a technical training on software, lighting or camera operation. It focuses on artistic direction, composition and narrative intention. Participants learn how to imagine a scene, build a character, shape a mood and construct an image that transcends documentation to become fiction.
