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Delve into a wide range of topics covering Jonas Bendiksen’s 20+ year career — how to navigate the industry, pitch for assignments, develop long-term documentary projects, and more.
Portraiture | Documentary
Delving into a wide range of subjects, Jonas Bendiksen explores the inspiration found in a restless attitude to making photographs, as well as the nitty-gritty details of the craft. He shares valuable insights and advice on generating ideas, storytelling techniques, and developing long-term documentary projects.
Spanning more than six and a half hours of material, the photographer unpacks his experiences making his critically acclaimed long-form personal projects, and invites students behind the curtain of his practice, sharing demonstrations on editing workflows and proposal writing, as well as providing a host of practical advice on everything from working in the field to the steps involved in creating a photobook.
Unpack Gregory Halpern’s approach to portraiture and the power of editing and sequencing photographic narratives.
Follow Halpern as he creates new work in and around his native Buffalo, NY, focusing on his attempts to create compelling portraits of strangers met via Craigslist and encountered along the way. Halpern shares his end-to-end process, from pressing the shutter and creating contact sheets to his approach to editing and sequencing, giving his honest reflections on the successes and the failures.
This class offers a host of valuable advice that can be applied to your photographic practice, from thought-provoking discussions on the genre of documentary photography, to playful exercises on the relationships between images when presented in a sequence.
Learn the art of storytelling with Steve McCurry as he shares tips for mastering portraiture, cityscapes, and documenting conflict zones.
Learn Steve McCurry’s photography technique, such as blending into the environment, seizing spontaneous moments, and engaging with the street.
In this class, accompany Steve on assignments in the vibrant streets of La Havana and capturing portraits in Portugal. Gain understanding on interior and exterior lighting principles, composition rules like juxtaposition, finding compelling subjects, and crafting captivating narratives through visual storytelling.
Apprentice with Bieke Depoorter as she shares her philosophy on photographic relationships — on trust, intimacy and chance encounters.
The relationships that Bieke Depoorter establishes with her subjects are key to her approach to her work, and at the foundation of her artistic practice. Accidental encounters are often the starting point for projects: some of them leading to relationships which are years long. The ways these interactions naturally develop dictate the nature of Depoorter’s work. In our third on-demand course, Depoorter delves into her philosophy on working with people — one that is rooted in the idea of being “a person first, photographer second” — while also exploring the complexities that come with this approach.
Through a curriculum of 17 lessons, Depoorter shares how she builds trust with her subjects in a short space of time, allowing her to create intimate portraits of near-strangers. Drawing on her main bodies of work, she explores the benefits and complexities of photographic relationships. In this course, discover how to develop and maintain momentum while working on long-term projects. Learn with Depoorter now and gain advice on the editing process, sequencing your images, and the considerations around presenting your work in both photobooks and exhibitions.
Become the photographer you’ve always envisioned yourself to be with hands-on instruction from artist Petra Collins.
Begin building your photo skills with Petra as your technical and creative guide. In this MasterClass session, Petra explains what you need to understand about your camera, lighting, and interacting with your subject.
This class starts with the basics, like how to load film into a camera, choosing your location, creating ideal compositions, developing your vision, and editing your photo series.
Get inspired and develop your photographic identity and ideas with insights and techniques from Joel Meyerowitz.
For the first time ever Joel explains his life’s work, influences, methods and ethos — all in one incredible masterclass. Travel with Joel in Tuscany and NewYork to learn his ideas on street photography, portraiture, still life and much more. This is not a course about the technical aspects of camera settings, it’s a journey with one of the greatest photographers in the world into creativity and the art of photography.
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