Narrating the image: how to build a story through a photograph

Friday, September 16th
From 12 noon to 2 p.m.
Exhibition halls and Classroom 1
6€

Workshop given by the writer Carlos Bassas

The writer's main tool is language, but, on many occasions, stories are born from an image and their purpose is to generate others that provoke certain feelings in the reader. Images can be a source of inspiration when creating a literary work, origin and/or destination of an uncertain journey that transcends the instantaneous, the immediate, what is represented in them.

Throughout this workshop we will learn how, from a specific photograph, to find the necessary elements to devise and build a narrative fiction that goes beyond that initial representation, giving it enough (necessary) narrative complexity to become a complete story. 

This journey will begin with a visit to the Intermedia exhibition, the real trigger for the narrative journey that the student will undertake.

CARLOS BASSAS DEL REY

Bassas (Barcelona, 1974) works as a fortune teller, a job he combines with teaching and screenwriting.

In 2007 he won the Placido Award for Best Noir Screenplay at the IX International Film Noir Festival of Manresa.

In 2012 he published his first novel, Aki y el misterio de los cerezos (Toro Mítico), and won the Premio Internacional de Novela Negra Ciudad de Carmona with El honor es una mortaja ( Tapa Negra).

In 2015 came Siempre pagan los mismos ( Alrevés), winner of the Tormo Negro, and a new installment of the Japanese saga Aki, El Misterio de la Gruta Amarilla (Quaterni). In 2016 he published the haiku book Mujyokan (Quaterni), the short novel La puerta Sakurada ( Ronin Literario) and Mal trago ( Alrevés), the last novel, so far, of the saga starring inspector Herodoto Corominas.

A year later came El samurái errante ( Quaterni) and Justo (Alrevés), winner of the prestigious Hammett Prize (2019) awarded by the Semana Negra de Gijón. In 2019 it was the turn of Soledad ( Alrevés). In 2021 he published Cielos de plomo ( Harper Collins), set in mid-19th century Barcelona, and in May 2022 his last novel, Sinántropos ( Alrevés), was published.

In his facet as a screenwriter, his work stands out in the script of the film Un día más con vida ( 2018, Raúl de la Fuente and Damian Nemow), a production that has won numerous national and international awards, including a Goya and the Award for Best Animated Film at the XXXI edition of the European Film Awards.