At a time when traveling is very restrictive, seeing all these photographs reminds us of the trips we made and planning the next ones.MIRA Mobile Prize 2020

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In this first edition, 68 works and 700 catalogs were sold, which meant a collection of 42,000 euros. This money was directed entirely and equitably to four NGOs with which it had previously decided to collaborate:

• Sohram-Casra in Diyarbakir (Turkey)
• Il gattaro d’Aleppo in Aleppo (Syria)
• Jugend Rettet in the Mediterranean
• Elea Project in Athens (Greece)

At the end of the first edition of PHES, the desire arises not only to raise funds to help these organizations, but also to bring photography directly to these people who, by necessity, are in a place of transit.

Thus, between December 2017 and March 2018, PHES travels to four countries: Greece, Spain, Serbia and Turkey, where photography workshops are held with refugees and migrants, who were provided with disposable cameras so that they could tell how a day of his life in that space they inhabit after having fled their country and that has nothing to do with their true home. On this occasion, the cities and organizations chosen were:

• Project Elea in Athens (Greece)
• New Century Vision Association in Malaga (Spain)
• Sohram-Casra in Diyarbakir (Turkey)
• No Name Kitchen in Sid (Serbia)

These trips and photographs have been collected in 33,293, a photobook in which around 80 migrants have participated, to whom we have been able to give voice and put a face; and in a traveling exhibition.

In order to carry out this new initiative, photographers Colita, Javier Vallhonrat, Cristina de Middel, José Manuel Navia, Carlos Pérez Siquier and Ferrán Freixá donated one of their works to PHES. These photographs were raffled, raising the nearly € 6000 with which the trips were financed.

This project has been carried out thanks to the support and collaboration of Fujifilm, which has provided us with all the photographic material necessary for the trips as well as the production of a traveling exhibition.

After the success of the first edition of PHES we decided to organize a second edition.

The exhibition took place between September 20 and October 10, 2018, again at the TAI University Center for Arts in Madrid and this time featured the works of 99 contemporary photographers. Between the works and the catalog of this second edition we have raised € 30,000 that this time have been destined to:

• Maydayterraneo (Mediterranean)
• Proactiva Open Arms (Mediterranean)
• Sons of War (Syria)
• No Name Kitchen (Serbia, Bosnia and Rome)
• NASCO Feeding Minds (Ghana)

After this second one, PHES has continued offering workshops, along the same lines that were carried out on the trips, together with the Tomillo and Pinardi Foundations, where we have worked respectively with Gypsy and Moroccan women; and with young refugees. Just as PHES is in constant movement, our actions are also transforming as we are presented with the possibility of collaborating with organizations to continue putting the photographic image at the service of those who need it most.

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The quarantine caused by the COVID-19 epidemic has left millions of people unable to leave their homes. Here we leave you a leisure option to distract you that will keep you entertained in a good time, in addition to increasing your knowledge of art.

This is Google Arts & Culture, a web page of the famous search engine, also available in an application, where you can discover works, heritage monument,  and art collections from around the world from your sofa.

It is a project carried out in collaboration with more than 250 art institutions around the world, and that has tens of miles of works of art by more than six thousand artists, as described on its website.

Also, you can turn your photos into works of art

Google offers us a new specific function ‘Art Transfer’ that allows us to apply a photo of our style to some of the most famous paintings in history.

This feature is already available in the ‘Google Arts & Culture’ application for iOS as Android.

If you like the twist of the whirling movement of Vincent Van Gogh’s paintings or the surreal brushstrokes of Frida Kahlo, you can now use the most recognizable styles of the most famous artists to transform your own photos.

The new ‘Art Transfer’ function of the Google Arts & Culture application allows you to take a photo (or use one of the ones you have stored) and transform it into a classic work of art. The process for this is identical on both platforms and, as we will see below, it is quite simple:

1. Open the Google Arts & Culture app.
2. Within the ‘Camera’ menu, which you will find in the bottom bar, select “Art Transfer”.
3. Capture a photo or upload one that you have stored on your phone.
4. Select one of the masterpieces to transfer that style to your image.
5. If you want to further customize your image, you can use the scissor icon to select where in the image you want the style to apply.
6. When you are satisfied with your work, click on ‘Share’ and you can save it to your phone or share it through different applications. The result can be saved / shared as a still image or as a GIF showing the transformation.

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Colorize your black & white family photos automatically with the world’s best deep learning technology. Share with your family and friends and delight them.

The colors are reconstructed by the colorization algorithm and may not be accurate. Consider this a technological simulation that gives its best guess on what the past looked like, by bridging between the past and the present. The model was trained by millions of example photos, and thanks to this it is capable of generating very realistic results. But there are cases where it has no way of knowing what the true colors were (for example, for specific items of clothing) and this may result in incorrect colors.

Visit the web gallery of transformed images like this:

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Students were very active, with a really participative attitude, letting us to know every question they had and each issues they found while approaching the different tools, such as photo editing tools (Pixlr E).

Notwithstanding the difficulties, we found really satisfactory results while reviewing students’ knowledge and assignments. All participants who have completed the course have received a certificate accrediting the completion of questionnaires and activities of the CICERO program.

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During this distance-learning phase, we reviewed more than 66 tests, analyzed and commented 198 photographs, and given over 5 hours of mentoring solving over 40 questions with personalized answers and reference examples according to each students’ interests. As well as we produced illustrative content to clarify any question our students may have.

Also, we provide students with additional learning content such as professional references on photography, and analysis of relevant photographs from professional photographers (as well as of the own teacher’s pictures) in order to raise their sights on the field of Photography.

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This group is a reflection of the wide range of targets covered by Arrabal-AID, as it put together a huge variety of ages (from under 18 years old to over 60 years old) as well as it involved people from different social circumstances: people over 45, long-term or youth unemployment, illegal immigrants,  etc.

In-class structure

During the first two weeks of class it was imparted two days a week, structured on three hours classes that were divided on indoor lectures and outdoor hands-on training. Most of the people were beginners on photography and wanted to learn the basis of how to deal with their photographic devices (such as DSLR (Digital Single-Lens Reflex) and smartphones cameras) as well as with some technical issues as “how to modify a picture’s size” or “which is the best file extension for uploading pictures to websites”.

We knew that most of the people would not have DSLR cameras, so in first instance, the course aimed to photography throughout smartphone’s cameras. In spite of this, we found out that almost the 40% of the students had a DSLR and they were interested in learn how to use it as they wanted to take advantage of most of their device’s features. We had to adapt the course to each student circumstance so we explained the differences and similarities between devices and creating different groups for the practical session where at least there was one person with a DSLR camera so everybody had the chance to contrast the results produced for each device.

Also, we attended and explained the difference between some smartphones, paying attention to its features and showing some examples of smartphones that have more than one lens, introducing people to how it works.

The students generated a friendly atmosphere of cooperation and communication as they had a keen concern for photography and they felt confident, not only to ask our teacher Alejandro López, but also to talk between them and discuss about different photographic issues and interests.

Parallel to the physical attendance, we proposed to the students to make a WordPress blog about the course where they would be able to upload the photographs taken during the course and leave comments on them. With this section they learned to: create pages and entries on WordPress platforms, choose the most proper size for their pictures to upload them, make a proper description of their photographs (indicating technical data such as the device they used, the lens aperture, the shutter speed value, ISO value, date of the picture, name of the author and title (if given)). The blog can be visited on https://proyectociceroarrabal.wordpress.com/ .

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