Today we wrapped up the advanced class with their finished stories! The groups were assigned the task of creating a slideshow accompanied with music to best illustrate the weeks topic; the changing face of Lisbon. Like yesterday, we started...
We started this morning by finishing off the editing leftover from yesterday’s images and moved into a critique of the student’s work. Compared to the general newness to photography that comes with our beginning workshops, our advanced students are...
The students are back! It’s funny how intense an experience it is to be reunited with people that you haven’t seen in a long time. For us, seeing our students again is always the biggest joy…so it shouldn’t come...
It’s happening again! We are all in Lisbon and our advanced workshop starts tomorrow! Esha, the last member of the team to arrive, came in this morning, dropped her bags in her room and headed out to finish scouting...
Graduation day today was a smash hit! The format followed our template, we hung an exhibition of the students work, we made a bunch of slideshows, and we put out a bunch of invitations for the event. And the...
I assume that everyone is tired of hearing how impressed we are with all of these student’s work. We’re all in such awe because not only have they never touched a camera, or have never learned through the aid...
This morning, as we loaded into the van, we realized that it’s the last shoot day. We’ve been in Toronto now for twelve days, and we’re almost finished. Looking back over the ground we’ve covered with the beginner workshop...
To catch you up on the on-goings of our workshop; From New Circles Community Services Executive Director, Alykhan Suleman, “The youth unemployment rate is 18%, nearly triple Toronto’s overall rate. However, for newcomer youth, who make up the majority...
Picture a 19th century red-brick factory building…now imagine that the building was once a stable for the horses used by the Toronto Street Railway Company. These horses were used to pull the street cars…before it was refitted as an...
Today Fred and Yana (one of the advanced students who’s returned as a peer mentor) went on The Morning Show to talk about the workshop, here’s the link: Fred Roberts Workshop Featured on The Morning Show It was a...