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June 30, 2017 
Develop your documentary style and visual language with photographers Antoine d’Agata or Matt Black

25th to 29th of September 2017

Magnum Photos is proud to announce an exclusive workshop series run at the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in Budapest, where Magnum photographers Antoine d’Agata and Matt Black will be leading students through a focused program, outlined below.

Aimed at photographers with a good understanding of photographic practice, each Magnum photographer will lead their group through a daily program of shooting, reviews, group critiques, mentoring, editing sessions and the opportunity to learn amongst peers.

Students will spend the five days alongside their selected photographer developing visual language, photographic identity, practical, technical and conceptual skills. Each participant’s work will be reviewed daily as a group into a comprehensive educational critique.

The format of the workshop, small groups of a maximum of 13 participants, will ensure an intimate and supportive atmosphere. The class will be in English.
The workshop will end with a public projection of the work produced during the 5 days.

On the last day, there will be a joint session of editing and presentation with the two tutors, providing students the opportunity to benefit from both photographers’ advice.

Fees: €950
6 scholarships places have been selected and paid for by Capa centre.

(Travel, accommodation, and other expenses are not included)

Magnum Photos is not responsible for reimbursement of travel expenses in case a workshop is cancelled. We recommend that you buy refundable air tickets and/or travel insurance. Magnum Photos reserves the right to swap out a photographer due to unforeseen circumstances.
5 day Workshop with Matt Black

Through assignments and class discussion, this workshop will sharpen student’s perceptive skills as photographers and work to bridge the gap between ideas and how you photograph. The goal is to establish a personal, authentic and ongoing visual dialogue with your subject, following themes and ideas over time and build bodies of work that are relevant and meaningful.

For this workshop, participants will be free to choose their own project, either an ongoing existing project to further during the class, or start a new work that Matt will help them to define.

The first day will be dedicated to presentations and portfolio reviews, the other days will be a mix of editing/shooting/critiques.

To apply for the workshop with Matt Black:
<a href="https://magnumphotos.wufoo.co.uk/forms/mznx3be08fjdb7/" target="_blank">https://magnumphotos.wufoo.co.uk/forms/mznx3be08fjdb7/</a>

5 day workshop with Antoine d’Agata

Over five days d’Agata will lead participants through intensive sessions of shooting, reviews, group critiques and editing, to help participants develop and identify their own visual language. Antoine d’Agata will encourage participants to engage with their subject and push personal limits, by emphasizing the importance of meaning via technique, through intense photographing.

The discipline of daily critiques and group discussions focusing on theoretical, aesthetic and practical issues will allow each photographer to define their own photographic strategy.

Each participant must bring a small presentation of their existing work.

To apply for the workshop with Antoine d’Agata:
<a href="https://magnumphotos.wufoo.co.uk/forms/mgchfgs0qtuija/" target="_blank">https://magnumphotos.wufoo.co.uk/forms/mgchfgs0qtuija/</a>

About Matt Black

Matt Black’s work has explored poverty, agriculture, the environment and migration. A native of rural California, he has photographed extensively in the state’s rural Central Valley and in Southern Mexico.

In 2014, he began the project The American Geography, a digital documentary work that combines geotagged photographs with census data to map and document poor communities. In 2015 he completed a thirty-state trip photographing seventy of America’s poorest places. Other recent works include The Dry Land, about the impact of drought on California’s agricultural communities, and The Monster in the Mountains, about the disappearance of forty-three students in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero. Both of these projects, accompanied by short films, were published by The New Yorker.

About Antoine d'Agata

Born in Marseilles, Antoine d’Agata left France in 1983 and remained overseas for the next ten years. Finding himself in New York in 1990, he pursued an interest in photography by taking courses at the International Center of Photography, where his teachers included Larry Clark and Nan Goldin.

During his time in New York, in 1991-92, d’Agata worked as an intern in the editorial department of Magnum, but despite his experiences and training in the US, after his return to France in 1993 he took a four-year break from photography. His first books of photographs, De Mala Muerte and Mala Noche, were published in 1998, and the following year Galerie Vu began distributing his work. In 2001 he published Hometown, and won the Niépce Prize for young photographers.

In 2004 d’Agata joined Magnum Photos and in the same year, shot his first short film, Le Ventre du Monde (The World’s Belly); this experiment led to his long feature film Aka Ana, shot in 2006 in Tokyo. Since 2005 Antoine d’Agata has had no settled place of residence but has worked around the world.

Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in Budapest

The Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center was founded in Budapest in 2013. The fruition of this project is the culmination of several years of work, built upon the important milestone of purchasing and bringing Robert Capa’s estate to Hungary in 2008.

Produced in partnership with the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center.