Description
This workshop is now fully booked. Sign up to the waiting list.
This is the fourth workshop organized by Magnum Photos and the Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilisations and Spiritualities at Fondazione Giorgio Cini. The workshops offer participants the opportunity to explore the city and take part in shooting exercises in an immersive and intimate group setting, led by Magnum photographers.
Breaking down the boundaries between documentary and conceptual photography, Cristina de Middel will introduce her practice and give workshop participants a creative assignment on the theme of ‘Excess’. Playing with the concept of reality and the photographer’s capacity to visually reinvent the world around them, this workshop seeks to push participants outside their comfort zone photographically while investigating photography’s ambiguous relationship to truth.
Organized into sessions of lectures and group portfolio reviews, this workshop will help you develop your personal photographic style and experiment in a new geographical environment. The program will be structured as an assignment where participants will be responding to the theme ‘Excess’, followed by consultations with Cristina de Middel in a group setting. The last day of the workshop will explore editing and sequencing strategies on how to create a choral project which can be published in a book format or curated in an exhibition.
“I’m looking to offer guidance and perspective for photographers who feel stuck either in their editing or creative process, and aim to provide an expanded understanding of documentary for open-minded creators,” Cristina de Middel says.
This workshop is open for 12 participants and suitable for both photographers at aunty stages of their career.
Price: 850€ (incl. VAT).
This fee includes four nights accommodation in individual rooms in the facilities of the Abbey, breakfast and light lunches on the three days day of the workshop. We are delighted to offer one scholarship for this programme. Please see the bottom of the page to find out how to apply.
The arrival date for the workshop is 18 April. The workshop will be held between 19-21 April. Participants can leave the island either on the night of 21 April or on 22 April.
This workshop offers:
– Consultations with Magnum photographer Cristina de Middel
– Peer reviews
– Individual project development strategies
– Editing, designing and advice on developing a coherent body of documentary work
– Accommodation on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore
– Lunch on each day of the workshop
Schedule:
Day One: 10:00 AM – 17:30 PM, 19th April
Housekeeping and Course Introduction
10:00 – 10:30 Housekeeping and Course Introduction
10:30 – 13:00 Lecture by Critisna de Middel: The nature of photography
14:00 – 15:00: Presentation of the theme Excess
After 15:00 – Shooting time
Day Two: 10:00 AM – 17:30 PM, 20th April
10:00 – 13:00 Group portfolio reviews
14:00 – 18:00 Shooting time
18:00 – 20:00 Group session focusing on editing and sequencing
Day Three: 10:00 AM – 17:30 PM, 21st April
10:00 – 17:30 Group session focused on editing & sequencing
Scholarship:
Magnum Photos and the Fondazione Giorgio Cini are proud to sponsor one scholarship for this workshop and are inviting photographers working on long-term projects to submit their applications. We particularly encourage photographers who are underrepresented in the industry, including people from black, Asian and ethnic minority backgrounds, differently-abled people, those from the LGBTQ+ community, as well people from a range of socio-economic backgrounds to apply for this scholarship.
The successful candidate will be selected by Cristina de Middel and the representatives of Magnum. The beneficiary will be responsible for covering their expenses to Venice.
Deadline for applications for scholarship: 1st March
Apply here for the scholarship.
