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

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

Workshop led by writer Carlos Bassas

The writer's main tool is language, but stories often arise from an image and aim to generate others that provoke certain feelings in the reader. Images can be a source of inspiration when creating a literary work, the 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 to use a specific photograph to find the elements needed to devise and construct a narrative fiction that goes beyond that initial representation, giving it sufficient (necessary) narrative complexity to become a complete story. 

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

CARLOS BASSAS DEL REY

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

In 2007, he won the Plácido Award for Best Screenplay in the Noir Genre at the 9th Manresa International Noir Film Festival.

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

In 2015, Siempre pagan los mismos (Alrevés), winner of the Tormo Negro prize, was published, along with a new installment in 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 latest novel, to date, in the series 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, Cielos de plomo ( Harper Collins) was published, set in mid-19th century Barcelona, and in May 2022, his latest novel to date, Sinántropos (Alrevés), was published.

As a screenwriter, he is best known for his work on the screenplay for the film Another Day of Life (2018, Raúl de la Fuente and Damian Nemow), a production that has won numerous national and international awards, including a Goya and the Best Animated Film Award at the 31st European Film Awards.