This workshop is for photographers currently working or planning to start working on a long-term personal photography project that they are passionate about.
PPP ( personal photography project) have been, for a long time, the instrument that photographers use to create the work that is important for themselves, the work that ends up being their legacy. Eugene Smith, Sebastio Saldago, Jason E >>shkenazi, Vladimir Syomin created their most important work for themselves, shooting self assigned projects.

The main emphasis in this workshop is NOT on publication, but on focusing and shaping a project into a coherent body of photographs.

The year is almost over- less then a week before 2010 hits us, and the holiday season seems to make the weeks fly by fast.

Creating a real multimedia narrative that can capture and engage an audience takes more than a bunch of photos with a bit of sound behind. You need to think in movies and cinematic experiences from the point you conceive your idea to the time you upload your final narrative. You need to think of yourself as a storyteller rather than a photographer. It takes careful planning and a conscious approac >>h.

In this workshop you will learn about the foundations of a good story. You will learn about narrative structure, dealing with characters and spheres of action and using the different media types (photo, video, audio, text) the optimal way.

In this assignment you can either work with a new idea or reshape an existing project that you have been working on in the past.

The final goal for this course in art photography will be to create a small portfolio of 12 to 20 images that support your original idea and articulate it clearly both technically and conceptually.

In this class participants will focus on the concept of “Hope”, this may be hope lost, hope for the future, or ways that hope exists in the present time. To be clear you will not be asked to take pi >>ctures of hope, but to create images about hope. There should be layers within your images, and larger narratives created by their relationship to one another.

The concept of Hope does not negate technical feedback, it only creates a structure that forces participants to interpret their idea and rethink how and why they are taking a picture while they make the project.
Towards the end of the workshop participants will end up choosing between 12 and 20 final images that will posted online as a finished project.
The goal of the workshop is to help the participants understand how to edit for a series, a portfolio or an exhibition, as well as how to choose images that support each other in your concept.