As usual, the day before the graduation ceremony is a busy one. We did our photo critique in the morning and then sent the students off to practice their speeches and prep themselves for the graduation ceremony. Around 5...
Our first assignment of the week was covering a community event in a small village called Porto Salvo. The event was designed to build a sense of community within the village and actively engage its seniors. There were craft lessons, cooking classes, games of...
First thing this morning, we shut off all the lights and looked at the photographs from yesterday afternoon. It’s always incredible to see the images our students create, and we had to remind ourselves that these photos were from our very first...
After a successful technical training day, we began our first day of class with a running start. The students came in, claimed their cameras and were ready to start learning. The first day of instruction is always quite technical – our students are grappling...
On our second day of preparation, we got a great surprise. Usually, the day before the workshop begins, Mike does a short introduction to the technology with five or six students who serve as our group leaders during the week....
The faculty have arrived in Lisbon: Fred from Los Angeles; Sarah from Santa Fe; Wendy from Rochester; Thomas from Nepal; Arthur from San Diego and Mike from Hong Kong. But it didn’t happen without some excitement. Fred carted a ton of camera gear all...
Dear Friends, Great news! For the first time, we are heading to a European destination, Lisbon, to continue our program of transformational photography workshops. This workshop will take place from September 4 through 10 in Lisbon’s Ismaili Centre. Once...
Former Los Angeles Times reporter Martha Groves spent a week behind the scenes of the Fredric Roberts Photography Workshops’ first U.S. workshop, held in Los Angeles.
“Watch me whip, watch me nae nae.” We heard the lyrics of this popular hip hop song as we arrived at the O’Connor Early Learning and Child Care Center for today’s photo assignment. Here, local group VIBE Arts runs one of...
Today was our second day of story assignments. It was our first time going into a location completely unfamiliar with the assignment in every way, with the expectation that after just two hours of photography, we will have captured...