Second Photo-Therapy Day 2019 Royal Photographic Society – Bristol Symposium : 22 May, Wednesday 10.00 am – 07.00 pm Workshop : 23 May, Thursday 10.00 am – 07.00 pm On 22 May 2019 The Royal Photographic Society hosted the Second Photo-Therapy Day, which was organised with " GRIFO " Photo-Therapy Research Group (Italy). The First Photo-Therapy Day had taken place at The Royal Society in London on the same day, 22 May, the previous year, in 2018. The Second Photo-Therapy Day was celebrated at RPS new venue in Bristol with a Symposium on 22 May and a Workshop on Integrated Expressive Arts Therapies on the day after. The Symposium "From Hugh Welch Diamond to PhotographicActs" was closed with the "Diamond" Photo-Therapy Award 2019 ceremony. The "Diamond" Photo-Therapy Award "DPTA" is a recognition to pioneers and researchers who have given a far-reaching contribution to the development of the discipl...

"Diamond" Photo-Therapy Award  Sculpture by  Valentino Giampaoli The "Diamond" Photo-Therapy Award "DPTA" is a recognition to pioneers and researchers who have given a far-reaching contribution to the development of the discipline. The sculpture which represents the prize was created and crafted by the Italian Artist Valentino Giampaoli.

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Valentino Giampaoli www.valentinogiampaoli.com Valentino Giampaoli was born in Loreto, Italy. He graduated in Sculpture at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Macerata. Valentino won the national competition for the monument to the Fallen of the Italian Resistance Movement in Naples. The monument was inaugurated in 2005. He received various private and public commissions for the execution of modeled figures, portraits and sculptures all over the world. Valentino is the author of the trophy for the "Diamond Photo-Therapy Award" and "Hospice Movement Prize". "My work is an aesthetic search where geometry and perspective take shape through a contrast of elements that create a dynamic form, where light gains the upper hand. I like to think of my art as a search, as an input, ultimately as a visual proposal. I create forms through the use of symbolism and archetypes, let them turn into instruments of abstraction, food for thought and an immedia...

Bodymind Phototherapy Riccardo Musacchi Bodymind Phototherapy Using Phototherapy techniques in our practice significantly increases the effectiveness of our sessions, due to the ability to carry out deep and memorable experiences, like tell people even after many years. A method so creative and fruitful was obliged to meet the body, now the undisputed subject of the latest developments of psychotherapy and every technique of personal growth. Every participant to this experience can verify concretely how these techniques are of particular benefit to people in helping them in giving voice at their resources and bring out a solid sense of self. The work of integration of mind, body and image makes the experience even more complete and memorable, essential condition for the effectiveness in creating conditions for changement. Bodymind Phototherapy, structured by Riccardo Musacchi is a therapeutic technique that use photographs or images in conjunction with a grea...

Nicoletta Braga www.nicolettabraga.it Nicoletta Braga, Artist and University Professor of Phenomenology of the Body at “Brera” Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, Italy.  Graduated in  Painting at Florence Academy of Fine Arts;  Master in Communication and Non-Verbal Expression: Psychomotricity, Music Therapy and Performance at Venice Cà Foscari University; PHD in Art, Fine Art Faculty, UGR Granada, Spain. Her artistic research concerns the connection between body and space in social relations. As an artist and a performer, Nicoletta Braga has taken part in many international exhibitions, events and workshops as: Escuela Moderna- Homnenaje a Francisco Ferrer y Guardia, H2O Gallery, Barcellona, 2009; Biennale di Venezia (Architettura) Director: A. Betsky, Venezuelan Pav., Director: Juan Pedro Posani with Domingo Alvarez, Arquetipos imaginarios y mitos (performances), 2008; From osmos city to complot city, International Artist Meeting -  Marmaris and...

Photo-Therapy Day 2019 Royal Photographic Society – Bristol Symposium: 22 May, Wednesday 10.00 am – 07.00 pm Workshop: 23 May, Thursday 10.00 am – 07.00 pm Integrated Expressive Arts Therapies Workshop Last Frame Project The final picture of a story 23 May, Thursday From 10.00 am to 6.00 pm “Still Life” Nicoletta Braga Professor of Therapeutic Arts at “Brera” Fine Arts Academy – Milan The proposed workshop will be an opportunity to weave relationships, build a shared space through the composition of objects