The Buenos Aires Streets and Tango Workshop will offer an extraordinary chance to discover and photograph one of the most seductive and mesmerizing cities in the world, Buenos Aires. With its cobblestone streets, grand archecture, and bohemian charm, Buenos Aires has been called the 'Paris of the South'. It is also a truly South American capitol, a lively city full of flare and passion that moves to the timeless rhythm of the Tango.

The workshop will be taught and led by Peter Turnley, one of the pre-imminent visual communicators and world traveling photographers of our times. Turnley has spent a great deal of time photographing in streets of cities and dancehalls across South America over the course of the last decades, and his workshop will give students an unparalleled chance to explore and capture the magic of Buenos Aires.

The workshop will be based in oldest neighborhood of Buenos Aires, San Telco, a colorful quarter lined with colorful cafes, antique shops and the city's most celebrated milongas (tango halls), where locals and visitors come to study and dance the Tango nightly. The central Plaza Dorrego transforms into an open-air tango hall and street musician stage, with a welcoming atmosphere that brings Argentines and foreigners from all walks of life together in the spirit of fun and rhythm. San Telmo is a strikingly visual neighborhood, an ideal place both to embrace and photograph city life in Argentina, and a well situated launching point for exploring other parts of Buenos Aires.

Each day, students will gather in Turnley's rented loft space in San Telmo where they will learn insights into the traditions of documentary photography, street photography as well as lessons on camera technique and mental approach to visual storytelling. Classes will last 3-4 hours a day including individual photo critique sessions, and the students will spend the rest of each day wandering and photographing the streets and culture of San Telmo and neighborhoods throughout Buenos Aires. Students will be asked to select a particular theme, which will be the focus of his or her portfolio at the end of the week. Turnley will guide and support each student in their selection of a theme and visual focus, however narrow or broad they want it to be. Turnley is a disciple of the great master photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson, and will encourage you to be attentive to the “decisive moments” of every day life. He is passionate about helping students revel in the joys of observing and seeing the life all around us.

Few places in the world offer such a rich opportunity to see and witness amazing life as in the streets and tango parlors of Buenos Aires. The students will create a final 15-image photo story/portfolio of their work, which will be shown during the final class on the last Saturday of the class. Aside from being a great photographer and teacher, Turnley is a master editor and will work with each student to help them edit their daily work and help them to find the threads of commonality in their images that help them create what is known as a “vision:” or a personal style.

Beyond the rich street life of this city and the neighborhood of San Telmo in around the workshop meeting space, Turnley will also give the students and extensive list of wonderful neighborhood tango parlors where students will be able to photograph and witness the wonderful scenes of one of the most dramatic and elegant dances in the world in the city’s most popular halls The entrancing atmosphere and wonderfully vibrant music is a truly one-of-a-kind experience for anyone.

Students are welcome to explore their interest in learning to dance the Tango through the week, whether it is the focus of their portfolio or not (nightly classes are available for students after class if they wish to venture out and take some lessons on their own-Peter Turnley will offer information on a great venue for tango lessons (The Mansion Dandi Royal in San Telmo).

The Buenos Aires Workshop will be unparalleled way for a student to experience the enchanting, light soaked city of Buenos Aires with a true of master of documentary photography.

Companions
This is an ideal workshop to bring along a spouse, son or daughter or partner. Non-photographic companions may join the group sessions and meals but are not involved in the critique or review sessions. Companion supplement is $150.

Hotels
Workshop meetings will be held at Peter Turnley's rented loft in San Telmo, a neighborhood full of many charming hotels for all budgets and tastes.
Peter has chosen a selection of 5 hotels in San Telmo, listed below. These are only suggestions and students may choose to stay in any hotel where they wish-but it is recommended that they stay in the neighborhood of San Elmo for convenience of getting to Peters’ rented loft each day for class. Hotels rates are very reasonable in Buenos Aires, as are the prices for restaurants, cafes, and other consumer items.

Bohemia Hotel
Perú 845, San Telmo, Buenos Aires.

Mansion Dandi Royal
Piedras 922/36, San Telmo, Buenos Aires.

Telmho Hotel Boutique
1086 Defensa St. San Telmo, Buenos Aires.

Mariposita
Carlos Calvo 948, San Telmo, Buenos Aires.

1890 Boutique Hotel
Salta 1074, San Telmo, Buenos Aires.

Travel
Daily direct flights depart from Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Miami, New York, and Washington D.C. to Buenos Aires. All international flights arrive at Ministro Pistarini (Ezeiza) International Airport, located 35 km from downtown Buenos Aires. A taxi to the city takes approximately 35 minutes.

Arrival
Plan to arrive on Saturday, January 8th, or latest by Sunday morning January 9th. The first workshop session will begin at 2pm on Sunday, January 9th. Flights from the States are often in the evenings, which mean you could fly Friday evening, and arrive Saturday morning and give yourself an evening to get acclimated before the workshop begins on Sunday.

Departures
The workshop ends at noon, Saturday, January 15th, with a final show of the students’ final 15-image photo stories made during the week. Students are free to leave on Saturday afternoon, which would enable those needing to get back to the States to work on Monday the time to do so. Those wishing to stay in the region longer are free to continue their trip afternoon on Saturday.

Technology
This is a digital workshop, taught and conducted with digital cameras. If you wish to shoot film, you may so do, but we suggest you bring it home for processing; to participate in critiques, you will need to use 35mm digital camera. A student should be comfortable downloading their digital images each evening to a folder, and heaving a means for their work to be transported on a flash drive or disc for daily review with Peter Turnley. At the start of the workshop, students will be encouraged to choose if they want to see their work in color or in black and white, and they will be encouraged to stick to their choice of one of the other throughout the workshop.

What to Bring
Besides your SLR digital camera equipment, bring a body of your creative work with you to share—a portfolio or CD of images. Your portfolio can be prints or digital images. The workshop will have an LCD projector and there will be a final show of all of the students work during the final session.

Camera Gear
A digital SLR camera is required. Students may work with a high end point and shoot camera such as a Canon G10. Two bodies are recommended, with a minimum of at least one wide-angle lens, such as a 17-35mm zoom, or 24mm, 28mm, 35mm, or 50mm lens. In order to shoot comfortably in low light situations, it will be preferable that students have a wide-angle lens that is relatively fast and has a wide aperture such as 1.4., 1.8. 2 or 2.8. Bring several memory cards (at least 1 gigabyte cards are recommended), extra batteries and necessary battery chargers. Your laptop should have image management software, such as Apple’s Aperture, Adobe’s Light Room or, as Peter suggests, PhotoMechanic, which can be downloaded, free, on a trial basis from Camerabits.com

Make sure you have a back-up system on which to download each day’s work. This can be your laptop, a portable external hard drive storage device, flash drive, or DVDs. You will need a means of getting your edited images in a folder to Peter each day for review—flash drives are the most practical, but you can also use an external hard drive, or DVD.

Research and Preparation
Research and preparation are important parts of any adventure. There are many very thorough guidebooks for Buenos Aires and extensive information about Buenos Aires to be found on the Internet.

Meals
The first and last meals are included in the cost of the workshop. You will be a guest of the workshop for a group opening dinner on Sunday night, and a final dinner on Friday night. Aside from the two group meals, breakfasts, lunches and dinners are independent but students are encouraged to join each other in local restaurants and cafes. Expect to be paying around $50 a day on meals.

Tango Lessons
San Telmo is full of dance spaces and tango academies that offer lessons to students of all experience levels each night. One recommended venue to learn the Tango is the fabled Mansion Dandi Hotel, which offers lessons every day of the week in on the parquet floor of its chandelier lit dance studio. For more specific information on taking tango lessons at the Mansion Dandi and elsewhere in Buenos Aires, please visit Tango Class in San Telmo

For more information about teacher Peter Turnley, please consult his personal website: Peterturnley.com

Turnley has published 5 books of his work:
Parisians
McClellan Street
In Times of War and Peace
Beijing Spring
Moments of Revolution