Choose Your Karma
Newton’s third law of cause and effect says that everything we do has a consequence. The butterfly effect illustrates this ripple effect within the fabric of personal relationships.
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Interactive Presentation. Paint Your Mind
“Paint Your Mind” is the name of one of the exercises we conducted last November at ASPRONA, the Valencian Association for People with Intellectual Disabilities, as part of the Dins Project: “Photography Workshop as an Empowerment Tool for Social Inclusion.”
ANDANA Festival 2021
We celebrated the First ANDANAfoto Photography Award in the best way possible. As you know, photography as a tool, human connection, and music are all essential to us. That’s why this award became the perfect excuse to organise a festival.
Winning Projects of The First ANDANAfoto Photography Contest
On November 15, the three jury members—Virginia Espa, Eduardo D’Acosta, and Pedro Vicente—deliberated on the winning projects of the contest.
I ANDANAfoto Photography Contest
The ANDANAfoto Photography Award recognizes original photographic projects of an artistic nature and themes related to personal development.
Types of Gaze
Each individual directs their gaze toward what captivates and interests them. No school can instruct you on what should capture your interest or where your gaze should be directed. Based on this, I suggest exploring the different types of gazes through a simple classification that may resonate with your current perspective in the present moment. We will define four gaze types: contemplative, expressionist, documentary, and conceptual.
Photography for Social Inclusion for ASPRONA-Valencia
No, we are not all the same.
That’s a lie.
Some individuals face challenges such as limited economic resources. Others have scarce personal skills or constrained social skills. Among them are those who may not believe in the possibility of changing the world or in people living harmoniously with equal opportunities and rights, despite recognizing our differences.
Therapeutic Photography and Self-Knowledge
Photography, as a therapeutic tool, aims to enhance the health, well-being, and personal growth of individuals through the utilization or creation of images.
ANDANAfoto pioneer, launches a course of self-knowledge through photography for WhatsApp
Today, more than ever in history, we have the possibility to take pictures at any time. We create images quickly and easily. We create images because we can.
Photography changes everything
Photography, since its invention, has changed our lives in every way, what we know, how we represent ourselves, what we discover and document.
The Family Album of a Neighborhood, Colps de Llum
Colps de llum can be freely visited on Carrer Sant Pere in the town of Catarroja, Valencia. It is a family album of the les Barraques neighborhood, telling the story of its people, its festivals, its streets and transformations — an album created photo by photo by Paco Costa.
Claude Cahun, The Profound Liberation.
Claude Cahun used self-portraiture to document her changes, to invent possible identities, and to become what she desired. The camera not only captures who we are, but also allows us to invent who we want to be, to discover that what defines us is fluid and ever-changing, that we are free to reinvent ourselves at any moment in our lives. This is the profound liberation.
Photography as a social function
Can images change the world we live in?
This great question can haunt those who make documentary photography, those who find spaces, places and communities in the world that need help or global support, and those who say that what is happening can’t happen in an ethical and civilized society.
The Origin of Photography as a Tool in Mental Health. Part two
In this second part, we jump to the 20th century. Photography as a therapeutic tool has been used and researched by many doctors and psychiatrists through different techniques and both individual and group resources
The Origin of Photography as a Tool in Mental Health. Part one
The use of photography as a therapeutic tool was explored and investigated by many doctors and psychiatrists with different individual and group techniques and resources.
Photography and School
For nine months, the CEIP San Juan de Ribera team in Valencia, led by its director, Teresa Ripoll, participated in classes led by ANDANA to integrate photography into the classroom. The curriculum designed expressly for this project covered various topics, from photographic techniques to developing photographic projects.
Photography as a tool for social integration
This exhibition talks about the need to break the silence, to give light and make visible the reality of people in the process of integration, anonymous artists or ordinary people that we all are. The images show a normalizing and integrating nuance, an understanding of reality from the perspective of its own protagonists.
The Exercise of Asking in Photography
Perhaps this exercise of asking allows us to admire people who persist in pursuing what they desire, even when it may seem impossible at times.Ask. It’s time to start your project.
Photography As a Tool for Change
We are firmly convinced that photography can bring about significant change. So, when psychologist Concha Sánchez invited us to collaborate on integration and inclusion activities for minors, we didn’t hesitate—despite it being August, we knew it would be worth it.
Photography and self-knowledge
Have you ever thought about how you are? Who are you? If you are where you want to be? Typically, we don’t reflect on how we are, what makes us happy or brightens our days, unless something breaks our stability.
