The Shape of Memories: A Journey Through Perception, Place, & Image

Riccardo Magherini explores photography as something reconstructed rather than simply taken. Through six series, Tokyo, Firenze, Circus, HK, BKK, and Hanoi, he shows how reality can be rebuilt from fragments of space, emotion, and time. Moving beyond the single instant, he reveals images as living structures shaped by memory and perception. The session opens his circular creative process, blending intuition, feeling, and layered visuals to question how we see, remember, and translate experience into image.

What you will take away:
• A practical understanding of reconstructive image making that treats memory and perception as creative tools
• Methods for visual layering, sequencing, and form that turn fragments into coherent bodies of work
• Ways to develop series driven projects that connect place, atmosphere, and emotion with clarity

Who this is for:
• Photographers and visual artists interested in conceptual and process led approaches
• Editors, curators, and educators seeking frameworks for teaching perception and narrative in imagery
• Students and practitioners who want to evolve from single shots to sustained series with a distinct voice