Winter
"'Hear! hear!' screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, 'winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it.'" -H.D. Thoreau
Hello, I am Gabriele Lopez and this is one of the few newsletter I send yearly to help create a more direct way to be in touch over various chances.
I am on a new platform now (Substack, that is looking good…) since my loved Tinyletter account will be decapitated soon from the company’s decisions, so I am still in learning mode here, but if you are here as a mistake or simply no more interested, there should be an unsubscribe link at the end of this email.
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We are finally about to do our next DIY NIGHT! Incredibly, we are already to celebrate our 12th appointment, it’s always been fun and nice and I really hope to see many people there. As usual, it’s a chance for meeting mostly and sharing a precious gift: present. These two words are synonyms for a reason.
Of all the changes this DIY adventure had, we decided to keep this part alive as it’s the purest and easy part other than where all started from.
A totally un-competitive kind of friendly meeting where photography is more an excuse for more meaningful things.
I will take an unpretentious ‘zine that has been seen around in a draft form before, a work that is very important to me…but more definitely important some authors like Giancarlo and Francesco will be invited to take there some personal printed work where I’ve been involved in the creation process. It’s a thing I always wanted to do and worked hard to build, so it’s a pleasure to see this birth happen. Then again thinking at my jobs history, it just contains all the experiences. Crazy. I used to think at those years like wasted time but I was, once again, wrong.
Find here the details but if you need more info please reply and I’ll be happy to help. A fast final mail with details will be published before the night.
Of course like every other time is and will forever be a free-entry event and is open to people that may want to show and sell their zine with no costs.
We are organising a two-weekends workshop in Milan with Michael Ackerman.
I am not really into the photography workshops obsession, but I can surely trust this experience that I have done in first person years ago as one of the most pure and honest things you can do to understand more about your personal work and way of seeing. Michael is a true person and his approach to photography is an example from my point of view. I really hope it will go on.
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It’s a tricky period. The world balance looks totally lost, and we can see it and meet the effects in everyday people’s life. The point is to find a light, or build the chances for it often in the most simple life things and oppose to this darkness in every possible ways. As discussed before, I have tried to take as much weight as possible away and start to take my time back as much as I can. Of course as every important thing, it’s not easy at all.
It’s a choices challenge game.
The System makes it hard to leave you free time. We have to finish things, run for money.
This can drive you nuts. Or you can learn to love it.
I heard a story from a friend who traveled there about how in Tibet, Buddhist monks make beautiful mandalas out of sand. They spend hours, even days, crafting these complex, geometric designs...only to wipe them clean and start over as soon as they’re finished.
Isn’t that a way we might see all the work we do? Might that be a way to go through life? It’s not about cleaning the house or finishing this or that task. It’s about the mandala—an unending, ephemeral process that we begin again and again and again.
So, we decided to make a chance for a good “photography” night in January and we are trying to organise a workshop that we believe may add value to life that has to be meaningful NOW, because time will make everything forgotten in any case, so…no pressure to obtain anything than good times.
just to remember what photography can be about….
See you. G