A TRAVEL WITH THE PHOTOREPORTER

Ghana-Togo-Benin

Departure: Accra 23/10/2008 • Arrival: Cotonou 2/11/2008

Category: Special Trip

• 11 days in Ghana Togo Benin with the photoreporter Sergio Ramazzotti
• overnights in hotels

The first travel with a photoreporter: Sergio Ramazzotti, journalist, writer, photorepoter of ParalleloZero, drive the participants to discover not only three wonderful countries, ma how to take picturs during a trip! Eleven days to participate to the great traditional festivals in Benin, Togo and Ghana, and to meet the most interesting people, from Krobo to Ashanti. An extraordinary occasion, a very unique travel!

To know how to get the right place and – once you are there – how to move around, how to interact with the environment and the people, how to be a totally natural presence: these are the premises to take a good photo.
The photoreporters of ParalleloZero have a long experience and have been working for many years all over the world, in secluded countries, in war areas, in contact with proud and distrustful cultures and the wildest nature: they know pretty well how to get the right place and how to move around.
Travelling with one of the photoreporters of ParalleloZero we will be able to learn all the secrets to plan a reportage, how to use a camera and when it’s better not, hot to obtain the maximum from the light, how to find the subjects, the best cures, and day by day how to put into practice all the techniques to realize your personal reportage. You will learn to take photos, but also to know local cultures and traditions, to communicate in the most effective way, to open the doors that generally remain closed
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Sergio Ramazzotti Journalist, photographer and writer. He has written and photographed more than 200 stories in as many countries for most of the leading Italian magazines, including D La Repubblica, IoDonna, supplement of the daily Corriere della Sera, Specchio, supplement of the daily La Stampa, Ventiquattro, supplement of the daily Il Sole-24 Ore. He is a regular contributor of Cartier Art, a quarterly art and photography magazine published and distributed worldwide by the Fondation Cartier in Paris.
His photographs have been exhibited as personals in Roma (1997, Galleria La Strada, via Veneto; 2004, Libreria Feltrinelli Megastore Galleria Colonna), Arona (1998, Monastero della Purificazione), Torino (1999, Cloister of San Filippo Neri), Milano (2003, Libreria Feltrinelli via Manzoni and Exotisme Art Gallery, 2004, Spazio Haas Gallery), Bari (2004, Libreria Feltrinelli Megastore), Biella (2001, EquaMente, city of Biella).
As a writer and novelist, he published Vado verso il capo (Feltrinelli 1996, a bestseller to-date at its eighth edition). The book is currently used as a textbook at the IULM University in Milano, where he is a regular lecturer at the Faculty of Sociology. In 1999 he published the historical novel Carne verde (Feltrinelli). In 2002, Feltrinelli (www.feltrinelli.it) published La birra di Shaoshan, a novel set in Mao’s hometown in China. In 2003, he published Liberi di morire (Piemme), a novel based on a true story reported during the second Gulf War in Iraq. In 2005, he published the novel Tre ore all’alba (DeAgostini), set in Iraq. In 2006, Feltrinelli published his sixth book, Afrozapping, a collection of African stories. In 2005 he won the Enzo Baldoni Prize for Journalism of the Province of Milano, and the International Photography Award (Los Angeles) in the “Editorial” category.
In 2008 he published with Éditions du Chêne in Paris and Thames & Hudson in London the photographic volumes Inde and Chine. He is based in Milano.


This program offers the possibility to participate to some of the most important West African traditional Festival, from vudu celebrations in Togo, to Zangbeto, Gelede and Egun in Benin, to Ashanti funerals in Ghana. A full immersion in colors, sounds, parfumes!

Groupe of minimum 13 participants: 1.570 euro each person in double room

Groupe of 8-11 participants: 1.850 euro each person

Supplement single room 240 euro.

Full board from the breakfast of the second day till the lunch of the last day

The prices don't include the international flight from and to the country of origin

For more informations: transafrica@transafrica.biz