Workshops
Guided by Steve Simon, learn essential techniques for creating impactful travel photography, from composition to storytelling, and enhance your skills to document your adventures with depth and creativity.
Dates:
Sep 30, 2024 - Oct 4, 2024
Levels:
Intermediate,
Advanced,
Workshop Fee: $1395
Workshop Duration: 1-week (Monday-Friday)
Workshop Location: On-campus
Class Size: 12
It is true that travel can inspire, stimulating all your senses as you wander with your camera through new and exciting surroundings. But your ability to maintain your concentration amidst the sights, sounds and smells in exotic, often chaotic environments is one of the keys to coming away with strong images. In this advanced course, documentarian and wanderer Steve Simon will provide tips and techniques for the traveling photographer gleaned from adventures to more than 40 countries on six continents. This workshop is designed for photographers interested in telling stories through photographs.
We will use our Maine workshop base as our travel destination to make new work.
You’ll learn about strategies for photographing strangers in different cultures as well as creating a sense of place for more personal travel stories when shooting landscapes, details, food, night scenes and even documenting travel itself. We will look at your photographic strengths and weaknesses and you will be encouraged to follow your instincts to make more personal work.
We will discuss the ethics and legalities surrounding street photography worldwide. Through photographic exercises designed to extend your photographic boundaries combined with lectures and constructive group critiques, we push forward together to overcome photographic fears. Our daily critique sessions will be a “safe place” for group discussions with suggestions and new ideas to push ourselves to new heights in our work.
Steve will help you plan better through efficient research to tips on choosing a location, booking and keeping costs down; what gear to bring and in which camera bag, airport tips, safety & security, staying healthy on the road and hiring a guide for a shortcut to great images. All this with tech tips to improve your response time and ideas for sharing your work in exciting and innovative ways from slideshows to print-on-demand books you can create in Lightroom. By the end of the week, students will have a reinvigorated passion for their work and a clear and focused plan of action.
Students should bring laptops with Adobe Lightroom.
All images copyright Steve Simon.
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Instructor: Steve Simon
Steve Simon is an award-winning documentary photographer and author of five critically acclaimed photography books including The Passionate Photographer, which was chosen as one of Amazon’s "Top Ten Art and Photography Books." He has photographed on assignment in more than 40 countries and his work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, Colors, Life, Time, Le Monde, Harpers, Macleans, Walrus and many others. Steve is best known for his work focusing on the human condition, capturing life as he encounters it. His documentary work has been featured in solo shows in Buenos Aires, Montreal, Toronto and New York. Visa Pour L’Image in Perpignan, France has showcased Steve’s work three times. His post 9/11 work Empty Sky has been published by Life Books and a complete set of prints from that project was acquired by the 9/11 Memorial Museum for their permanent collection.