“The creative process for me is a space for allowing and exploring all parts of ourselves, especially what sometimes has stayed unexpressed and silenced for a long time, and ultimately empower each other to be more authentic and free.”
About Jyoti
Jyoti Graziano is a creative soul. Italian, she has lived and worked in Alentejo for the last fifteen years, a region she loves and that greatly inspires her work. She works as a photographer, web designer and visual branding coach, and what she loves most is supporting people to believe in their creative vision and to connect with their freest expression.
What Jyoti offers
Ways to co-create
Ripple Experiences
Sacred Stoneprints and Altar Creation
A full day
Alongside photography she carries a love for the sacred, which over time took the shape of the stoneprints she makes for altars and for indoor and outdoor spaces. Transferring a sacred image onto stone began as a playful outlet and became a work of creative alchemy: each deity finds its stone and becomes a piece of its own, with the ancient feel the technique gives it. In the workshop we learn how to choose the right stones, how to prepare the image, the transfer technique itself, and what the images mean.
Empowering photoshoot
The transformative power of being seen, almost a rite of passage in front of the camera. It begins with an intention, a positive affirmation of the theme and the energy each person wants to explore in themselves, held in a space that is safe, open and playful, because trust is what lets people take creative initiative. For some, being seen means being seen as they are, natural, without performing; for others it is breaking out of their usual patterns and daring to show themselves in a different light. It runs for one person or for a small group, where each participant supports the others or the group builds one collective vision, and everybody goes home with ten edited photographs as a mirror of what happened.
Ripple Residencies
Portraits of the space and its people
A week or more
A residency spent photographing: portraits of the guests who pass through and of the team who keep the place running, plus the space itself in its own light. The whole set stays behind.
The work
What ends up in the space
What is left behind
The altar the group builds, a set of printed stones, and a portrait archive of the space and the people in it.
Availability
Taking bookings
Jyoti Graziano works from São Martinho das Amoreiras, in the Alentejo, and travels for a booking.
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