Ogino told those gathered about the techniques he employs in creating photos while demonstrating a series of his works throughout his part of the workshop.

One distinction that can be singled out in Ogino’s works is that he does not use flash. “In my snapshots I want to show what is on the dark side of photos, i.e. the yin part,” Ogino explained, using lingo from ancient oriental philosophy.

Another feature characteristic of the Japanese photographer’s style is that he has focused on the same object for several years: his collection of photos dedicated to geishas, created 14 years ago, generated a lot of interest in the audience. Interestingly, he had photographed the same Japanese girls over the entire period in order to observe how they would change over time. The photographer managed to get inside a house where geishas lived and to capture their lifestyles, something that very few people have been able to do.

Ogino went on to show those gathered a series of photos he had made four years ago at Alisher Navoi Theater in Tashkent. While in Tashkent, he is now continuing with the series. As with the geishas, he had picked one actress and is now able to see how she has changed over these years. “I hope to make more photos of her in a few years,” he added.

Taking his turn, Spain’s Aitor Lara said “I am a free artist and I snap pictures of whatever I like. I don’t stick to a particular theme, but I do have a particular style: I work with black-and-white photos,” he said.

Lara has been engaged in photography for 20 years and in his activities he often relies on so-called magical realism -- realism combined with what seems to be an aberration in a photographer’s eyesight while portraying daily life.

Lara also presented a series of photographs dedicated to corrida, a traditional bullfighting show in Spain.

In 2004, he received the Ruy de Clavijo research grant from Casa Asia program of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Spain to carry out a project in Uzbekistan. The work was published as a book titled ‘Tower of Silence’ in 2008. In the same year he also published the book ‘Maestranza’, a photographic report about the bullring of Seville.

The workshop was an opportunity for young Uzbek photographers to discover new methods which they may embrace in their work and to try using the newfound skills on the spot.