EXPERIMENTAL GROUP OF PHOTOGRAPHY - GEF

The Experimental Photography Group is an extracurricular activity offered by the Photography Center of UFRGS, with the intention of developing the creativity and graphic-visual criticism, of graduation students and postgraduate students from several areas of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. These activities are developed through theoretical classes, practical workshops and seminars, having as the main discussion center photography as an individual's interface with their surrounding universes. It is worth stressing out that it is an experimental group because it involves, along with its work methodologies, the application of theories and techniques in photography, accompanied by subjective exercises in form, subject, color, light and shadow that are the forming agents and/or the actors of our universes (surrounding or not), in which we momentarily are inserted.

All the GEF activities are based on the following hypothesis :

PHOTOGRAPHY, AS A TECHNIQUE, CAN BE DEFINED AS GRAPHICALLY EXPOSED IMAGES OCURRING DUE TO THE ACTION OF A CERTAIN RADIATION OR FREQUENCY, OF THE SPECTRA THAT MAKE UP THE ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES ON BIOLOGICAL, PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL OR TECHNOLOGICALLY PREPARED MATERIALS OR ELEMENTS, NATURALLY SENSITIVE OR MADE SENSITIVE PREVIOUSLY. THOSE ACTIONS AND REACTIONS CAN HAPPEN IN AN OCCASIONAL WAY OR BE INDUCED TO HAPPEN (BITT-MONTEIRO, 1999).

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