PHOTOGRAPHY AND POETRY IN DUBLIN

Professor in photography and Magnum photographer Stuart Franklin invites to a photography workshop based on a self-selected poem, written by one of Ireland's authors. He challenges you to open up to Irish poetry, digging deeper into yourself and focus on something that may be out of your comfort-zone. Understand more of this beautiful country, its history, tragedy, love and compassion. Find a poem or a literary prose piece about Dublin and produce a series of photographs to company the poems in the streets of Dublin. With those words in mind, it might open up a whole new world.

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

We have found the most beautiful and charming place to stay for the weekend. We will create a good frame for entering a world full of poetry in these wonderful settings. To read, to understand, to get an inner vision for transforming the words to a visual language with your camera. Stuarts idea of doing this workshop is to limit your options as a photographer and get ONE poem and work on it for three days, maybe even longer. To try, to photograph, to fail, to go back and do it again and push yourself up to another level.

Stuart will have inspiring lectures, go through your daily work, give feedback and advices. We will have good conversation, discussion and get new friends. Every evening we are social and have dinner together. For sure we will pop into the pub to feel the atmosphere as well. The hotel is located close to the centre, only a short bus-drive away so we get both countryside and city-feeling.

WELCOME TO BEAUTIFUL AND POETIC DUBLIN

Ireland has rich literary traditions and is the country with the many famous writers and poets. Check out; Seamus Heaney, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, Louis MacNeice, to name a few. "The Irish mist", the soft light created for the camera is famous for photographers. Beautiful for portraits. And as Frode Grytten once wrote about Dublin: “Annoying. Overrated. Moody. Messy and unfinished. Chaotic and anarchic. Lopsided and weird. A bluff. All at once: Rain, sun, laughter, tears.” And he continues: “In Dublin, there is still something one can love: poetry, conversation, music, beer, the river, the sea, the sky, people warming on a bench when the sun finally finds its way.” That not to forget around the year 840, Norwegian Vikings arrived and built a fortress in the area. The city became the seat of a Norwegian kingdom. In 852 the Danish Vikings took control, and the following years were marked by fighting between the Irish and Danes / Norwegians. In Norway, they are often referred to as a Norwegian Viking kingdom, while in Ireland and the United Kingdom they are referred to as "Danes".

Today, Dublin is the administration centre, university city and holiday destination for travellers with a sense of true Irish art and tradition. The cultural life in the city is particularly vibrant and exciting with concerts, theatre, exhibitions and other cultural elements. As a regular pub feature at many of the pubs in Ireland is session. Would you like to play? Bring the "horn" and come. To the great pleasure of the pub guests. Come and have fun with us!

“Good photographs aren't just complex. They are enigmatic. Images are beguiling. And the way they play into our psychology, into our visual cortex, is something we still don't understand.” - Stuart Franklin

Stuart Franklin was born in UK and lives in London. In addition to being a photographer he is an author (The Documentary Impulse) who has also trained as a geographer. However, he began his career as a news photographer for The Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph Magazine in London. He is now one of the leading photographers in the world's most esteemed photography agency Magnum Photos. The agency was founded in 1947 and has the world's best photojournalists as its members. During the period 2006-2009 Stuart was the agency's president. He has had a range of prestigious assignments for National Geographic Magazine, but it was during the demonstrations at Tiananmen Square in China in 1989 that he was really in the right place at the right time. His picture of the man with the shopping bags holding back a column of Chinese T59 tanks has become an icon. Stuart has helped document, and consistently helped focus world attention on, famine in the Sudan, the conflict in Northern Ireland and the civil war in Sri Lanka, as well as bombings and massacres around the world. One thing is indisputable; this man does not shy away from a conflict zone. His artistic expression is just as bold, and his work is both provocative and moving. Stuart is a passionate advocate of freedom of expression, and his pictures sometimes cross the boundaries of some people's notions of political correctness.

These days, Stuart no longer hunts down conflicts and war zones. The natural world has become his focus and his passion is landscapes, deep dives into nature and the splendour of the Norwegian coastline. In order to be able to photograph the area more intensively, he bought a cabin in the municipality of Midsund. People who are born and bred in the countryside sometimes spend little time appreciating the beauty of nature. Stuart sees it clearly and acknowledges the difficulty involved in capturing it with photography. Despite the fact that he has photographed landscapes all over the world, Stuart says the Romsdal coast has proven to be more of a challenge than he imagined: its wildly contrasting light and weather conditions are the main factors he faces. Lucky then that he is a patient soul. For the last six years Stuart has worked as a professor, teaching master's students in photo-documentary at Volda University College. He also teaches photography at SPEOS, Paris and  at Hannover University of Arts and Sciences. His most recent and ongoing project focuses on landscape and literature.

LOCATION IN DUBLIN

Contemporary, modern, relaxed and informal is the atmosphere at Clayton Hotel Ballsbridge. A glowing red-brick Victorian mansion transformed into a comfortable hotel in the heart of Dublin’s embassy belt. Situated close to Dublin City centre, this 335 bedroom hotel is a beautifully restored 19th century building originally built as a Masonic School. Boasting spacious ensuite accommodation in Ballsbridge with superbly appointed features, this Dublin City hotel is popular with guests and locals alike. The hotel is easily accessible from Dublin Airport by road and Aircoach. Situated so the hotel provides an ideal base for visiting this great city’s many attractions for example Grafton Street, The Guinness Store House and Trinity College. YOU DECIDE IF YOU WANT TO STAY IN THIS LOCATION OR FIND A CHEAPER SOLUTION CLOSE BY.

WORKSHOP TUITION

Price is €995 including full workshop in Clayton Hotel Ballsbridge. Travel, accommodation and meals are not included. Bed and breakfast single room at Clayton Hotel is €179 pr night and can be booked directly with the hotel. A deposit for €400 will be charged upon registration. Full payment is due 90 days prior to the workshop. We offer 25% discount if you become a member of Meet World Photographers. meetworldphotographers.com

For questions regarding this workshop please contact us: hello@blueberryphotography.no

Workshop: Oct. 8-15, 2022 - FULLY BOOKED

Applications opens December 2 - 2021
EARLY APPLICATION DEADLINE: Monday, February 14, 2022  
EARLY APPLICATION NOTIFICATION: Monday, March 7, 2022
FINAL APPLICATION DEADLINE: Monday, April 4, 2022
FINAL APPLICATION NOTIFICATION: Monday, April 11, 2022

TRIESTE - THE JEWEL OF ITALY

We are going to the city of Trieste, situated in Italy’s North-Eastern province ‘Friuli Venezia Giuli’ and nestled on the Adriatic coast, close to the Slovenian and Croatian borders. Ruled by the Hapsburg Monarchy from 1382 to 1918, this polyglot city’s deep-water port has always offered a gateway for trade between the East and the West.

Over a long period and once known as the ultimate ‘nowhere town’, Trieste struggled with its melancholic reputation. Nevertheless, no other Italian city has shown such a profound historic and cultural transformation, considering its troubled past. Shortly after the end of the Second World War, bordered by Yugoslavia, international law declared Trieste a free state, yet the city sadly remained under military occupation until 1954.

Trieste is culturally indebted to the Balkans, Venetians, Greeks and the Jews, all of whom thrived here. These influences, easily recognized in its daily life through the local dialects, architecture, traditions and primarily its multicultural cuisine and population. Here you will discover stunning old buildings, churches and cathedrals, not forgetting an array of inviting coffee shops. Naturally, everyone recognizes the Illy Coffee brand.

Irish novelist and poet, James Joyce, spent many years in Trieste, mainly teaching English to Austro-Hungarian naval officers. He not only tutored Trieste’s most famous writer Italo Svevo, son of an assimilated German-Jewish family, but also helped his career by having his works translated into French and then published in Paris. A statue of Joyce stands proudly on the bridge spanning the Grand Canal.

Each year in the autumn, an Urban Photography Festival graces Trieste. Stroll through the city and marvel at the Catholic Church of San’t Antonio Taumaturgo, the Greek Orthodox San Nicolò dei Greci and the enormous Synagogue of Trieste. A perfect city to explore and photograph to your hearts content.

The workshop will include discussions about how to take your work to the next level, how to learn to edit (select and sequence) your work intuitively, as well as discussions about how to work in cultures other than one’s own, how projects evolve into books and exhibitions. Each student will have an individual conference with the Webbs.

“I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heart of the known awaits just around the corner.” - Alex Webb

THE SCHEDULE

There are two main components of this class: the spontaneous act of photographing and intuitive editing (selecting and sequencing your photographs). The workshop will begin with Alex and Rebecca, a creative team who together and apart have authored 19 books, who will critique each participant’s past work as a starting off point for a larger discussion about various photographic issues. By that first afternoon, participants will be working on their first assignment, which they will choose themselves. It may be a specific street, neighborhood, subculture, ethnic group, profession, family or individual; it may be photographing various events or festivals around the city. Above all, it must be something that you're passionate enough to return to every day to photograph.

For the rest of the workshop, we will meet in the mornings and critique as a group each student’s ongoing work. Throughout the workshop, we will try to build a coherent set of images for each photographer that will begin to represent his or her photographic stance or attitude toward the city of Trieste. We will view this work as a group at the end of the workshop.

Besides photographing and editing each day, there will also be print and book demonstrations and an editing exercise. We will also touch on a variety of topics, including the process of photographing spontaneously and intuitively; how to photograph in cultures other than one's own; the relationship between images (such as the sequencing and juxtaposition of photographs); how to edit photographs intuitively; an introduction on being on press with a book; how to work with a designer on a book; the practical realities of the magazine and art worlds; the emotional and psychological implications of working in color vs. black and white; the difference between images in a book and images on the wall; and how long-term projects can evolve into books and exhibitions. There will also be a chance for each participant to have an individual meeting with Alex and Rebecca, during which they can talk about anything they’d like, including reviewing a long-term project or work-in-progress that the participant is passionate about.

WHAT TO BRING THE FIRST DAY

The first day we would like all participants to bring about 30 SMALL PRINTS (NOT digital files), representing the work that they feel best represents who they are as photographers. We are interested in each participant’s individual vision, rather than whether he or she can work professionally or not. So, bring the personal project or projects––the work that represents your passions, your obsessions––not the set of portraits done simply to satisfy an editor or art director. For the first reviews, we find that working with prints has huge benefits. The prints do not have to be fine prints: they can be cheap 4x6 machine prints, inkjet prints, etc.—just prints that enable us to see the image.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR THE WORKSHOP

During the week all participants will be photographing every day, except Saturday. We strongly encourage you to work digitally.  Film may be an option, although a more complicated one, as you will have to figure out a way to process film each night in Trieste. (For film, you’ll be responsible for film processing each night with work prints ready each morning before class; on Friday afternoon, you’ll also need to have scans made of your week’s final edit––for instance, at a Trieste photo lab––for the final slide show Saturday night). Those working digitally must bring a laptop and memory stick or portable hard drive. All work needs to be downloaded into a single workshop computer attached to a digital projector. (We do not have time to shut down the projector and hook up individual laptops.) We need to be able to see work (from the previous day) at the beginning of the class every day.

A FINAL NOTE: BRING QUESTIONS

And please bring lots of questions to the workshop. The ultimate direction of the workshop will be influenced by the kinds of questions that you pose. 

TUITION AND PRACTICAL INFORMATION

Tuition is 2 950€ including accommodation. We are staying in the city center of Trieste and accommodation will be in ideal apartments for this kind of workshop. Everyone will have their own apartment which is well furnished, complete with equipped kitchen and guarantees a comfortable stay. It consists of an entrance, a queen-size bed, a living room, a bathroom and a kitchen.

Meals and travel are not included in the tuition. Due to the fact that we are a big group we will reserve tables and order a set menu. Payment will be collected up front.

We recommend flying to Venice (VCE) Airport, which is 113 km away from Trieste. The bus from Venice (VCE) to Trieste takes 1h 50m. You can also fly directly to Trieste as they have an airport. VISA: U.S. and EU citizens do not need visas to enter Italy. You must have a passport valid for at least three months (we recommend to have your passport at least six months valid from your planned departure from this country). The currency in Italy is the euro. When you are buying currency for Italy, look out for the currency code EUR. And once in Italy, you will see the symbol € used to show prices.

A good tip is to bring small gifts because you may find some new Italien friends. 

Recidence Liberty

All pictures from: https://www.residenceliberty.it/en/home/hotel-residence-liberty-trieste

Alex Webb has published 17 photography books, including The Suffering of Light, a survey of 30 years of his color photographs. He’s exhibited at museums worldwide including the Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y., the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A Magnum Photos member since 1979, his work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Geo, and other publications. He has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007 and NEA grant in 2019. His most recent books are La Calle: Photographs from Mexico and the collaboration Brooklyn: The City Within with Rebecca Norris Webb, his wife and creative partner. For the past 20 years, he’s co-taught workshops with Rebecca for museums, universities, and arts organizations around the world. His upcoming collaborative book with Rebecca, Waves, a pandemic logbook on Cape Cod, will be released in spring 2022. Alex and Rebecca’s joint website: https://www.webbnorriswebb.co/

 Originally a poet, Rebecca Norris Webb often interweaves her text and photographs in her eight books, most notably with her monograph, My Dakota—an elegy for her brother who died unexpectedly—with a solo exhibition of the work at The Cleveland Museum of Art (2015), among other venues. Her work has appeared in the The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Le Monde, and is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY. Rebecca is a National Endowment of the Arts grant recipient. In her most recent book, Night Calls, she retraced the route of some of her now 101-year-old country doctor father’s house calls in the same rural county where they both were born. Alex and Rebecca’s joint Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/webb_norriswebb/

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE WORKSHOP

After receiving our confirmation you will be asked to email 10jpgs (72dpi; 2000 pixels longest side) that represent who you are as a photographer, or direct us to a series or two on your website or other online link. If you work in a series, please include a selection from one or two personal projects–the work that represents your passions, your obsessions. (We aren’t interested in photographs done simply to satisfy an editor or art director or client.) Also include a short description of why you’d like to take this workshop and what you’d be interested in photographing for a week (no more than 150 words in a word doc). Also include a short bio (no more than 100 words in word doc) that includes where you live and something about your relationship to photography.

ONLINE WORKSHOP MODUL 2

Denne modulen bygger videre på modul 1. Modul 2 inneholder tettere personlig oppfølging og ender med et møte med Morten Krogvold i hans kunstnerbolig i Oslo. Nå skal du jobbe deg videre inn i prosjektet ditt. Morten vil gjennom disse fire ukene motivere deg med sin lange erfaring som fotograf og formidler. Hans unike blikk og evaluering av dine fotografier vil være med på å løfte deg som fotograf og hjelpe deg til å gå enda dypere inn i kjernestoffet og i selve PROSESSEN i ditt visuelle språk.

I løpet av disse ukene vil du motta inspirerende videoer hvor han deler sine tanker om valg av toning til ulike fotografier. Det blir kunsthistorie der han tar deg med på en reise til kildene i sine fotografier med lys, skygge og form. Han viser deg hvordan han fotograferer portrett i studio og utendørs. I tillegg vil han vise hvordan han gjennomfører et fotoprosjekt fra A til Å. Du vil også lære mer om litteratur, film og musikk. Mest av alt vil du få personlig tilbakemeldinger på dine fotografier underveis.

Dette er en online workshop for deg som:

• savner en god dose inspirasjon

• søker en langsiktig utfordring

• som vil gå dypere inn i prosessen

Du må ha gjennomført eller meldt deg på MODUL 1 for å delta på MODUL 2. Du bestemmer selv og hvor ofte du vil se video-foredragene og de er tilgjengelig under hele workshopen. All undervisning foruten det siste personlige møtet vil foregå online.

4 uker undervisning
20 videoforedrag
3 personlige gjennomganger av dine fotografier
Peptalk LIVE Morten Krogvold
PERSONLIG møte med Morten Krogvold i hans kunstnerbolig i Oslo
Begrenset antall deltakere
Pris kr. 12.900

PRIS FOR DELTAKELSE

Pris for deltakelse er kr. 12.900 og må betales i sin helhet før oppstart.
Har du spørsmål hører vi gjerne fra deg: hello@blueberryphotography.no

ONLINE WORKSHOP MODUL 2

Denne modulen bygger videre på modul 1. Modul 2 inneholder tettere personlig oppfølging og ender med et møte med Morten Krogvold i hans kunstnerbolig i Oslo. Nå skal du jobbe deg videre inn i prosjektet ditt. Morten vil gjennom disse fire ukene motivere deg med sin lange erfaring som fotograf og formidler. Hans unike blikk og evaluering av dine fotografier vil være med på å løfte deg som fotograf og hjelpe deg til å gå enda dypere inn i kjernestoffet og i selve PROSESSEN i ditt visuelle språk.

I løpet av disse ukene vil du motta inspirerende videoer hvor han deler sine tanker om valg av toning til ulike fotografier. Det blir kunsthistorie der han tar deg med på en reise til kildene i sine fotografier med lys, skygge og form. Han viser deg hvordan han fotograferer portrett i studio og utendørs. I tillegg vil han vise hvordan han gjennomfører et fotoprosjekt fra A til Å. Du vil også lære mer om litteratur, film og musikk. Mest av alt vil du få personlig tilbakemeldinger på dine fotografier underveis.

Dette er en online workshop for deg som:

• savner en god dose inspirasjon

• søker en langsiktig utfordring

• som vil gå dypere inn i prosessen

Du må ha gjennomført eller meldt deg på MODUL 1 for å delta på MODUL 2. Du bestemmer selv og hvor ofte du vil se video-foredragene og de er tilgjengelig under hele workshopen. All undervisning foruten det siste personlige møtet vil foregå online.

4 uker undervisning
12 videoforedrag
3 personlige gjennomganger av dine fotografier
Peptalk LIVE Morten Krogvold
PERSONLIG møte med Morten Krogvold i hans kunstnerbolig i Oslo
Begrenset antall deltakere
Introduksjonspris kr. 12.500

PRIS FOR DELTAKELSE

Introduksjonspris for deltakelse er kr. 12.500 og må betales i sin helhet før oppstart.
Har du spørsmål hører vi gjerne fra deg: hello@blueberryphotography.no

FINDING YOUR VISION ONLINE WORKSHOP

Do you know where you’re going next with your photography—or where it’s taking you? This intimate, two three-day weekend workshop will help photographers begin to understand their own distinct way of seeing the world. It also will help photographers figure out their next step photographically–from deepening their own unique vision, to the process of discovering and making a long-term project that they’re passionate about. A workshop for serious amateurs and professionals alike, it will be taught by Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb, who together and apart, have authored 20 books—including their recent Aperture book, Brooklyn: The City Within, Alex’s La Calle, and Rebecca’s new Radius monograph, Night Calls. Included in the workshop will be an editing exercise and an individual session with the Webbs. About a month after the workshop, on Sunday May 23, there will also be a group follow up online meeting, which we encourage participants to attend, but it is optional.

We welcome passionate beginners and professionals, college students and seasoned photographers, photojournalists and fine art photographers—anyone who is 18 years old or older and is passionate about photography. Participants are welcome to photograph in black and white or color, but we encourage everyone to photograph digitally, since we won’t have enough time to process film before each class. Because participants will be selecting their images from each day’s assignment, as well as sequencing them, they will need—besides a digital camera and laptop/computer—editing software such as Lightroom or Bridge. More information about assignments, materials needed, and additional details will be sent out to participants once they are accepted.

NOTE: This is a workshop for photographers who collaborate with the world, not for those who dramatically alter their photographs digitally. You have to be 18 years old to apply.

APPLICATION

Former Webb/Norris Webb and Blueberry workshop students or photographers we know are invited to apply without a formal application.

All others need to email Blueberry the following to apply:

1. 10 small jpgs (2000 pixels long side; 72 dpi) that best represent who you are as a photographer—or supply a link to a series or two of your work online.

2. Short statement about why you’d like to take this workshop from Alex and Rebecca (no more than 100 words).

3. Short bio (no more than 100 words). Be sure to also include the following information: date of birth; country of origin /country of residence; profession; previous photography studies.

SCHEDULE IN BRIEF

Monday, April 12: 21.00 CET (3PM ET): Each participant must upload 30 images (sized 2800 pixels on long side; 72 dpi) into their workshop Dropbox folder, in preparation for the first day’s class on Friday.

Friday, April 16: 17.00- 21.00 CET (11-3PM ET): Zoom Workshop Hours; between workshop sessions, students will be working on their assignments to provide material for the next session.

April 17&18: 18.00- 21.00 CET (12-3PM ET): Zoom Workshop Hours; between workshop sessions, students will be working on their assignments to provide material for the next session.

Saturday and Sunday Assignment Deadline: By 16.00 CET (10AM ET) on Saturday and Sunday, assignments must be uploaded into your workshop Dropbox (each day, no more than 5 images into A Folder; 25 images into B folder). Images must be sized 2800 pixels on long side; 72 dpi.

Monday, April 19 - Thursday, April 22: Students continue working on their assignments

Thursday: April 22: 03.00 CET (9PM ET): Deadline to upload up to 40 images into your Dropbox folders from new work you’ve made between Monday April 19, and Thursday April 22 (no more than 15 images in A folder; 25 images in B folder). Images must be sized 2800 pixels on long side; 72 dpi.

Friday April 23: 16.00 - 22.00 CET (10-4PM ET) Each participant has a 20-minute individual meeting with the Webbs. The rest of this day you are free to continue working on your assignments.

Saturday, April 24: 18.00 - 21.00 CET (12-3PM ET): Zoom Workshop Hours; between workshop sessions, students will be working on their assignments to provide material for the next session.

Sunday, April 25: 17.00 - 21.00 CET (11-3 PM ET): Zoom Workshop Hours.

Saturday and Sunday Assignment Deadline: By 16.00 CET (10AM ET) on Saturday and Sunday, assignments must be uploaded into your workshop Dropbox (each day, no more than 5 images into A Folder; 25 images into B folder). Images must be sized 2800 pixels on long side; 72 dpi.

GROUP FOLLOW UP SESSION (optional)

Wednesday, May 19: 03.00 CET (9PM ET): Deadline to upload your assignment into Dropbox. Students need to upload new images they’ve taken between April 26-May 22. Participants can upload up to 15 images into their A Folder; 25 into their B folder. Images must be sized 2800 pixels on long side; 72 dpi.

Sunday, May 23: 17.00 - 21.00 CET (11-3PM): Zoom Workshop Hours

This schedule is subject to change at any time.

“I only know how to approach a place by walking. For what does a street photographer do but walk and watch and wait and talk, and then watch and wait some more, trying to remain confident that the unexpected, the unknown, or the secret heart of the known awaits just around the corner.” - Alex Webb

“Over the years, I’ve learned that my images are much wiser than I am. I think I may know where a project is going, but slowly and surely they show me otherwise.”

—Rebecca Norris Webb

MORE ABOUT THE WORKSHOP 

There are two main components of this class: the spontaneous act of photographing and intuitive editing. The workshop will begin on Friday, April 16, with Alex and Rebecca—a creative team who, together and apart, have authored 20 books—who will critique each participant’s past work as a starting off point for a larger discussion about various photographic issues. After the first session and before the next one, participants will begin working on their first assignment, which they will choose themselves, something they can photograph safely during this pandemic. It may be a specific street, neighborhood, plaza, or urban downtown. It may be a park, farmers’ market, amusement park, restaurants/bars with outside dining, skate park, botanical garden, or other outdoor area. Or it may be something closer to home—your house, your family, your friends. It may be continuing to photograph a series that you’re already working on. But it must be something that you’re passionate enough to return to photograph, because we feel strongly that working deeply into a project is one way of beginning to find your own unique photographic vision.

Throughout the workshop, participants will continue to photograph their assignments—including the four days between the online weekend sessions. During our online meetings, we will critique as a group each student’s ongoing work. Over the course of this workshop, we will try to build a coherent set of images for each photographer that will begin to represent his or her photographic stance towards the place or people or culture or topic that they are photographing. In addition, each participant will have an individual meeting with Alex and Rebecca on Friday, April 23. Lastly, about a month after the workshop ends—on Sunday, May 23—there will be a group follow up online session, which students have the option of attending.

Besides photographing and editing each day, Alex and Rebecca will give a series of online presentations, as well as an editing exercise. We’ll touch on a variety of topics, including the process of photographing spontaneously and intuitively; how to photograph in cultures other than one’s own; the relationship between images while pairing and sequencing them; how to edit photographs intuitively; an introduction to being on press with a book; how to work with a designer on a book; the emotional and psychological implications of working in color vs. black and white; the difference between images in a book and images on the wall; and how long-term projects can evolve into books and exhibitions.

WHAT TO UPLOAD FOR THE FIRST DAY

No later than Monday, April 12, 2021, participants must upload 25-30 images (2800 pixels long side, 72 dpi). This must be a selection of photographs that best represents who you as a photographer. We are most interested in each participant’s individual vision, rather than whether he or she can work professionally. So, upload a personal project or projects—the work that represents your passions, your obsessions—not a set of portraits or editorial pictures done to satisfy an editor, art director, or other client. 

TUITION

Tuition fot the two long weekends and optional follow up session is €1670 per person. 

ABOUT THE INSTRUCTORS

Alex Webb has published more than fifteen books including Brooklyn, The City Within (Aperture, 2019, with Rebecca Norris Webb) and La Calle: Photographs from Mexico (Aperture, 2016), as well as a survey of 30 years of his color work, The Suffering of Light (Aperture, 2011). Webb became a full member of Magnum Photos in 1979. His work has been shown widely and he has received numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. His photographs have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, and GEO, among other publications.

Originally a poet, Rebecca Norris Webb often interweaves her text and photographs in her eight books, most notably with her monograph, My Dakota (Radius, 2012)—an elegy for her brother who died unexpectedly—with a solo exhibition of the work at The Cleveland Museum of Art (2015), among other venues. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and Le Monde, and is in numerous museum collections. An NEA grant recipient, Rebecca has a new book, Night Calls (Radius, 2021), in which she retraced the route of some of her 100-year-old country doctor father’s house calls in the same rural county where they both were born.  

LINKS

Alex and Rebecca’s website: https://www.webbnorriswebb.co/
Alex and Rebecca’s instagram: https://www.instagram.com/webb_norriswebb/

ONLINE WORKSHOP MODUL 1

Nå har du muligheten til å finne din egen fotografiske stemme. Gjennom 10 uker får du tid til å dypdykke i fotografiets uendelige mysterier og la deg rive med av Morten Krogvolds inspirerende foredrag. Hans 50 år lange erfaring som fotograf og formidler vil være med å løfte deg som fotograf, enten du er profesjonell eller amatør. Morten er en av dagens mest toneangivende fotografer og er kjent for å være en utømmelig kilde til kunnskap og inspirasjon. Han underviser på egne workshops og har en helt unik evne til å gi konstruktiv bildekritikk.

I løpet av 10 uker vil du motta videoer hvor Morten deler sine tanker om fotografiets kraft, kunsthistorie, praktisk fotografering og inspirasjon om andre fotografer. Han imponerer med læren om fargenes betydning og ikke minst lysets kraft. Mot slutten av workshopen vil Morten tipse deg om litteratur du bør lese, musikk du bør lytte til og filmer du kan se for å hente motivasjon til dine fotografier.
I møte med andre mennesker finner Morten mye glede og han vil møte andre fotografer i to “ansikt til ansikt” videoer.

Etter at han har evaluert dine innsendte fotografier vil du motta en oppgave som du skal jobbe med i 10 uker. I løpet av workshopen får du tre personlige tilbakemeldinger i videoform på prosjekt ditt. Den siste gjennomgangen blir gjort LIVE i felleskap slik at det blir en toveis dialog. Det er fullt mulig å være med på workshopen uten å levere inn bilder. Gi oss beskjed ved påmelding.

Dette er en online workshop for deg som:

• savner en god dose inspirasjon

• søker en langsiktig utfordring

• som vil finne din egen stil og identitet

Undervisningen vil foregå online og du bestemmer selv når du vil se video-foredragene. Du kan se de så mange ganger du vil og de er tilgjengelig under hele workshopen. Etter at du har gjennomført MODUL 1 er du velkommen til å melde deg på MODUL 2 hvor du fordyper deg videre i prosessen. Denne modulen går over 4 uker og ender med et personlig møte med Morten Krogvold i hans kunstnerbolig.

10 uker undervisning
15 videoforedrag
3 personlige gjennomganger av dine fotografier
Begrenset antall deltakere
Pris kr. 12.500

PRIS FOR DELTAKELSE

Pris for deltakelse er kr. 12.500 og må betales i sin helhet før oppstart.
Har du spørsmål hører vi gjerne fra deg: hello@blueberryphotography.no

DENNE WORKSHOPEN ER FULLBOOKET. DET ER FREMDELES LEDIGE PLASSER PÅ WORKSHOPEN MED OPPSTART TIRSDAG 6. APRIL.

ONLINE WORKSHOP MODUL 1

Nå har du muligheten til å finne din egen fotografiske stemme. Gjennom 10 uker får du tid til å dypdykke i fotografiets uendelige mysterier og la deg rive med av Morten Krogvolds inspirerende foredrag. Hans 50 år lange erfaring som fotograf og formidler vil være med å løfte deg som fotograf, enten du er profesjonell eller amatør. Morten er en av dagens mest toneangivende fotografer og er kjent for å være en utømmelig kilde til kunnskap og inspirasjon. Han underviser på egne workshops og har en helt unik evne til å gi konstruktiv bildekritikk.

I løpet av 10 uker vil du motta videoer hvor Morten deler sine tanker om fotografiets kraft, kunsthistorie, praktisk fotografering og inspirasjon om andre fotografer. Han imponerer med læren om fargenes betydning og ikke minst lysets kraft. Mot slutten av workshopen vil Morten tipse deg om litteratur du bør lese, musikk du bør lytte til og filmer du kan se for å hente motivasjon til dine fotografier.
I møte med andre mennesker finner Morten mye glede og han vil møte andre fotografer i to “ansikt til ansikt” videoer.

Etter at han har evaluert dine innsendte fotografier vil du motta en oppgave som du skal jobbe med i 10 uker. I løpet av workshopen får du tre personlige tilbakemeldinger i videoform på prosjekt ditt. Den siste gjennomgangen blir gjort LIVE i felleskap slik at det blir en toveis dialog.

Dette er en online workshop for deg som:

• savner en god dose inspirasjon

• søker en langsiktig utfordring

• som vil finne din egen stil og identitet

Undervisningen vil foregå online og du bestemmer selv når du vil se video-foredragene. Du kan se de så mange ganger du vil og de er tilgjengelig under hele workshopen. Etter at du har gjennomført MODUL 1 er du velkommen til å melde deg på MODUL 2 hvor du fordyper deg videre i prosessen. Denne modulen går over 4 uker og ender med et personlig møte med Morten Krogvold i hans kunstnerbolig.

10 uker undervisning
15 videoforedrag
3 personlige gjennomganger av dine fotografier
Begrenset antall deltakere
Pris kr. 12.500
Som julegave får du boken “Stille Lys” signert av Morten ved påmelding

PRIS FOR DELTAKELSE

Pris for deltakelse er kr. 12.500 og må betales i sin helhet før oppstart.
Har du spørsmål hører vi gjerne fra deg: hello@blueberryphotography.no

DENNE WORKSHOPEN ER FULLBOOKET. DET ER FREMDELES LEDIGE PLASSER PÅ WORKSHOPEN MED OPPSTART TIRSDAG 6. APRIL.

ONLINE WORKSHOP MODUL 1

Nå har du muligheten til å finne din egen fotografiske stemme. Gjennom 10 uker får du tid til å dypdykke i fotografiets uendelige mysterier og la deg rive med av Morten Krogvolds inspirerende foredrag. Hans 50 år lange erfaring som fotograf og formidler vil være med å løfte deg som fotograf, enten du er profesjonell eller amatør. Morten er en av dagens mest toneangivende fotografer og er kjent for å være en utømmelig kilde til kunnskap og inspirasjon. Han underviser på egne workshops og har en helt unik evne til å gi konstruktiv bildekritikk.

I løpet av 10 uker vil du motta videoer hvor Morten deler sine tanker om fotografiets kraft, kunsthistorie, praktisk fotografering og inspirasjon om andre fotografer. Han imponerer med læren om fargenes betydning og ikke minst lysets kraft. Mot slutten av workshopen vil Morten tipse deg om litteratur du bør lese, musikk du bør lytte til og filmer du kan se for å hente motivasjon til dine fotografier.
I møte med andre mennesker finner Morten mye glede og han vil møte andre fotografer i to “ansikt til ansikt” videoer.

Etter at han har evaluert dine innsendte fotografier vil du motta en oppgave som du skal jobbe med i 10 uker. I løpet av workshopen får du tre personlige tilbakemeldinger i videoform på prosjekt ditt. Den siste gjennomgangen blir gjort LIVE i felleskap slik at det blir en toveis dialog.

Dette er en digital workshop for deg som:

• savner en god dose inspirasjon

• søker en langsiktig utfordring

• som vil finne din egen stil og identitet

Undervisningen vil foregå på digital plattform. Etter at du har gjennomført MODUL 1 er du velkommen til å melde deg på MODUL 2 hvor du fordyper deg videre i prosessen. Denne modulen går over 4 uker og ender med et personlig møte med Morten Krogvold i hans kunstnerbolig.

10 uker undervisning
15 videoforedrag
3 personlige gjennomganger av dine fotografier
Begrenset antall deltakere
Introduksjonspris kr. 12.500
Som julegave får du boken “Stille Lys” signert av Morten ved påmelding

PRIS FOR DELTAKELSE

Introduksjonspris for deltakelse er kr. 12.500 og må betales i sin helhet før oppstart.
Har du spørsmål hører vi gjerne fra deg: hello@blueberryphotography.no

I samarbeid med CC Vest inviterer vi til fotokurs
Dette kurset passer for barn mellom 8-12 år som ønsker å lære seg å fotografere. Kanskje liker barnet best å ta bilder av blomster? Eller natur, hunden sin eller en god venn? Farger eller sort hvitt?

Med enkle triks og forståelse av lysets hemmeligheter vil de i løpet av fem dager få mange gode tips og råd. Litt teknikk, mye fotografering både ute og inne og mye moro. Barna vil lære hvordan de tar et portrett, og at det ofte skal kun små justeringer til for at det blir et godt bilde. De skal alle samarbeide om å sette opp og regissere sine egne gruppebilder. Det er lettvint å fortelle en historie med bilder og barna skal lage sin egen historie. Det blir en innholdsrik uke og de vil få tilbakemelding på bildene de tar under kurset. Vi skal høre på musikk, tegne med kullstifter og undre oss over bilder som vi ser på sammen. Hva er et godt bilde og hva liker jeg ikke. Kanskje får vi besøk av noen lokale helter som stiller opp som modeller?

Husk klær etter vær! Vi er mye ute i nærmiljøet hver eneste dag og er været fint spiser vi også lunsjen ute.

Vi avslutter uken med utstilling for foreldre, besteforeldre og søsken fra kl. 14.30 i de flotte lokalene på Lilleaker. Her vil barna vise frem fotografiene de har tatt og hva de har lært.  Dette blir gøy! Har du spørsmål om kurset hører vi gjerne fra deg: hello@blueberryphotography.no

Vi tar smittervern på alvor
For å ivareta alle barna og smittervern kommer vi til å dele de inn i mindre kohorter. Det blir mye utetid og da jobber de i sine kohort grupper og alle bruker refleksvester. Vi vil sørge for at de som kjenner hverandre kommer i samme gruppe. I tillegg vasker vi jevnlig alle fells kontaktflater gjennom dagen og sørger for god hygiene. Hver morgen må barnet signeres inn av en voksen person og det er veldig viktig at alle er klar over at man ikke kan være med på fotoskole dersom man er syk, eller føler seg dårlig. 

Sammen med sine assistenter vil inspirator Anne Lise Flavik ta barna gjennom en uforglemmelig uke. Hun er utdannet fotograf og har i flere år jobbet med barn og unge på Kulturskolen i Oppegård. I tillegg har hun lært av den beste - mesterfotograf Morten Krogvold - hva som skal til for å lykkes med en fotoworkshop. Anne Lise er sprudlende, elsker å jobbe med barn og ikke minst har hun ekte kjærlighet til fotografiet. 

Kurset er begrenset til 15 barn og holdes i samarbeid med CC Vest i Mustads vei 1.
Prisen er kr. 2995 som faktureres ved bindende påmelding. Alle får med seg bilder på fotopapir til en verdi av kr. 400 fra Elite Foto. Fra kl. 09-15 hver dag.

© Greg Gorman

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OSLO MASTERCLASS WEEKEND 30 APRIL - 3 MAI 2020

Dette blir en uforglemmelig langhelg. Du blir kjent med flere av Norges mest anerkjente og dyktige fotografer som til sammen besitter store mengder kunnskap og erfaringer. Vi har også med oss Greg Gorman som er en av de virkelig store Hollywood-legendene, med de aller største stjernene og kunstverkene på merittlisten. Han er en energibunt med et enormt overskudd og sjenerøsitet. Det blir et fullspekket program med foredrag, undervisning, utfordringer, fordypning og selvfølgelig mye fotografering.

Det handler om people photography og vi skal ut av studio og rett på location. Med “vanlige folk” som modeller. Vi skal jobbe på location med både hav og svaberg, industribygg og skog sentralt i Oslo. I tillegg til lyssetting vil fotografene dele sine hemmeligheter i kunsten å mestre det naturlige lyset. Vi jobber i mindre grupper men du vil også få tid alene med modellene.
Vi skal jobbe med instinkt, lys, location, historiefortelling, regi og komposisjon. Alle disse elementene er suksesskriterier for et godt arbeid. Men de må næres. Og det er vår jobb på OMW. Vi skal ikke bare bryte reglene, vi skal overse de.

Kanskje får vi tid til å fiske litt i pausene? Men ikke minst jobbe intenst for å utvikle oss i den retningen vi ser for oss som fotografer. Hver og en av oss.

“Plutselig begynte det å regne. Og bildene kunne ikke blitt bedre!” - Julie Pike

Julie, Greg, Massimo og Agnete. Det kan knapt bli fruktigere. Dette er folk som kjenner hverandre godt, og det brygger opp til forskjellige innfallsvinkler og helt sikkert noen opphetede diskusjoner og masse inspirasjon. Uansett hvilken del av tauet du selv holder i.

Deltakelse fordrer kjennskap til sitt eget kamera og filhåndtering i etterarbeid, samt basal kunnskap om forholdet mellom lukker, blender og iso. Er du uerfaren eller har arbeidet mye i studio får du uansett utbytte av denne innholdsrike langhelgen. Bjørn Opsahl er hjernen bak OMW - konseptet og han er selvfølgelig med alle dager. Oslo Masterclass blir holdt i Foto.no sine lokaler i Dronning Eufemias gate 12 i Barcode samt på en av øyene i Oslofjorden. Antall plasser er begrenset til 24 deltakere.

KLIKK HER FOR Å SE HELE PROGRAMMET

MASSIMO LEARDINI

Italienskfødte Massimo er velkjent for sitt skandinaviske uttrykk, sine fordypningsprosjekter og en rekke bokutgivelser. En ekte italiener i den norske naturen. Han jobber primært med personlige kunstprosjekter, som utforsker mennesket, eller menneskelige spor. Med intimitet og tillit som nøkkelverktøy, er han er en mester med form og lys på location. Massimo er full av deleglede og entusiasme. Han er et fantastisk tilskudd til Oslo Masterclass Weekend-familien. Leardini holder egne workshops i Norge og Frankrike. Underviser på fotoskoler i Berlin og Norge.
leardini.com

JULIE PIKE

Julie er kjent for sin subtile stil med sterke fortellinger hvor hun ofte utforsker kvinnelig identitet med nennsomt blikk. Hun trives best i nordiske kulisser og finner gjerne lyset og komposisjonen på instinkt der og da. Arbeidet hennes kjennetegnes som typisk skandinavisk med et subtilt poetisk preg og forankring i sterke historier. Julie besitter stor formidlingsevne, både visuelt og undervisningsmessig. Hun underviser på Bilder Nordic og holder jevnlig foredrag og workshops.
juliepike.no

GREG GORMAN

Greg er av de siste virkelig store Hollywood-legendene, med de aller største stjernene og kunstverkene på merittlisten, og en energibunt med enormt overskudd og sjenerøsitet. Hvem husker vel ikke det ikoniske “say hello to my little friend”-bildet fra Scarface? Etter et helt langt liv i filmindustrien i Hollywood, har han opparbeidet en omgangskrets med gode venner som han jobber hyppig med den dag i dag. Som Elton John, John Waters, Johnny Depp osv. Og listen er lang. Han underviser på egne workshops verden over, bl.a. anerkjente Santa Fe Photography Workshops.
gormanphotography.com

PRIS FOR DELTAKELSE

Pris for deltakelse alle dager er kr. 9.900.
Mat og drikke er ikke inkludert i prisen men vil bli arrangert av Blueberry for de som ønsker det. Depositum på kr. 2.500 blir belastet rett etter påmelding og resterende beløp forfaller til betaling 45 dager før arrangementets oppstart.

Har du spørsmål hører vi gjerne fra deg: hello@blueberryphotography.no