<b>Take your project one step further and find ways to distribute your work</b>
Take your photographic project to the next level and discover new ways to distribute your work across various streams under guidance of award-winning photographer Peter van Agtmael and key professionals, with Magnum and LensCulture in Amsterdam.
This workshop will lead students to fully develop their portfolios with distribution plans and/or project proposals from multiple formats.
Following the launch of new Magnum newspaper Chronicles series, curated by Peter van Agtmael, Magnum is proud to announce a unique program developed in partnership with LensCulture.
In the current media landscape, creatives not only have to present in-depth contemporary personal storytelling but also find adapted streams for sharing and distributing their work using constantly evolving tools. In this context, participants will have the opportunity to share and discuss their projects from conception to execution, and to discuss further opportunities for dissemination of their personal visual narratives.
Aimed at supporting and mentoring each participant in their approach by helping them to talk about and contextualize their work in a wider editorial environment, this collaborative masterclass will shape and sharpen the vision of how one sees and defines a project, its audience and its future.
After the three-day workshop, Peter van Agtmael will deliver a talk as part of the World Press Photo Festival. Workshop participants will gain access to this event.
The workshop is organized by Magnum in collaboration with LensCulture.
<b>Where & When</b>
Lensculture, Amsterdam
10th – 11th – 12th April, 10am to 6pm
<b>Language</b>
The workshop will be held in English
<b>Fees</b>
€650 plus tax if applicable. Terms and Conditions apply.
See the bottom of this page for more details.
<b>Selection and Requirements</b>
Photographers are required to bring an edit of up to 30-40 small work prints and any other format the project has been developed to yet.
Students attending must be comfortable using their equipment and have their own laptop with Editing Software
<b>Apply</b>
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<b>About Peter Van Agtmael</b>
Peter van Agtmael was born in Washington DC in 1981. He studied history at Yale, graduating with distinction in 2003.
His work largely concentrates on America, looking at issues of conflict, empire, memory, race and class. He has also worked extensively in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Israel/Palestine.
He has been awarded the W. Eugene Smith Grant, the ICP Infinity Award for Young Photographer, the Lumix Freelens Award, the Aaron Siskind Grant, a Magnum Foundation Fellowship as well as multiple awards from World Press Photo, American Photography Annual, POYi, The Pulitzer Center, The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, FOAM and Photo District News.
His book, 'Disco Night Sept 11,' on America at war in the post-9/11 era was released in 2014.
Disco Night Sept 11 was shortlisted for the Aperture/Paris Photo Book Award and was named a
‘Book of the Year’ by The New York Times Magazine, Time Magazine, Mother Jones, Vogue,
American Photo and Photo Eye.
"Buzzing at the Sill," a book about America in the shadow of the wars, was released in the Spring of 2017. It was named a “Book of the Year” by Time, The Guardian, Buzzfeed, Mother Jones, Internazionale and LensCulture and shortlisted for the 2017 Rencontres D’Arles Author Book Award.
He is a founder and partner of Red Hook Editions, a publishing company based in Brooklyn. He is a mentor in the Arab Documentary Photography Program in Beirut.
Peter joined Magnum Photos in 2008 and became a member in 2013.
<b>About Magnum Chronicles</b>
The idea behind this newspaper series is to provide a new vehicle for exploring key issues of our modern times, giving Magnum and its photographers a way to elevate their voice and experience as long standing chronicles of the world within the realm of wider public debates. Each newspaper will be curated by a different Magnum photographer, showcasing the breadth and depth of Magnum’s archive, combining contemporary images with archival to offer a unique perspective and context on subjects.
<b>Terms and Conditions</b>
– You will be asked to submit a €100 application fee that will be credited towards your full tuition if you are accepted to the masterclass. If you are not accepted, your €100 fee will be returned minus processing charge(s).
– There are a limited number of spaces on the workshop. Students will be selected based on the work they have submitted during their registration.
– Magnum Photos reserves the right to cancel this event with less than X participants. In the event of cancellation students will be given at least 1 week advance notice and a full refund.
– Magnum Photos reserves the right to change or alter the program advertised.
– The workshop fee does not include transport, accommodation or ground expenses. International participants are responsible for reimbursement of travel expenses in case the workshop is cancelled. We highly recommend that you buy refundable tickets and/or travel insurance.
– Refunds to applicants who wish to cancel their place on the workshop can only be given up to 14 days in advance of the date of the workshop. After this point, refunds cannot be issued.
<b>Contact</b>
For enquiries relating to this project please email Coline Plancon coline.plancon@magnumphotos.com
<b>Lensculture</b>
For almost 10 years, LensCulture has become one of the most authoritative resources for contemporary photography. We have been committed to discovering and promoting the best of the global photography community. We look for exciting work from every continent, and from diverse points of view: documentary, fine art, nature, photojournalism, activism, street photography, sports, fashion, poetic, personal, abstract and human. LensCulture International Exposure Awards, now in their eight year, are granted yearly to discover, reward, and promote talented, new, emerging and established photographers and multimedia creators from around the world.