Interview with Antoine d'Agata, MA of Arts in Photography lecturer
During the 2nd semester of the MA of Arts in Photography, Antoine d’Agata was the teacher of the Collaborative social challenge project module. He tutored the MA students in a personal approach to documentary photography, through meetings and long talks in which he forced them to look through the camera at the lives of others and their own, to stop and look around them, paying attention to the social beyond clichés and their own beliefs.
Darkness, pain and empathy, that empathy that he has transmitted to each of his students, have characterised the work of Antoine d’Agata, a photographer and film director who confronts the violence of man face to face, in extreme situations that have led him to constant experimentation in the physical and in the gaze, in the capture and in the trace that he weaves of everything he has lived through his books – for which he created his own publishing house -, through his works and his cinematographic proposal.
In 2004 D’Agata joined Magnum Photos.
His work has been widely recognised and appreciated to the point of becoming a cult photographer. His photographic style is raw, provocative, merging involuntary aesthetics, repetition and giving voice, face and cry to himself and to individuals and women from the most damaged and vulnerable sectors of society.
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