Today started bright and early…especially early after a long day of planning and the additional late night class that was added to yesterday’s’ agenda. Last night, as part of the class, we divided the students into three groups;...
There is a cool calmness to the mornings here that belies the adventure we’re surely going to have today. Since our arrival, we’ve started each morning with a walk from the guest residences to the canteen at around 6:45/7am....
One of the major challenges of our workshops typically lies in figuring out the stories that our students will work on and all the logistics involved. Our goal is to first determine the stories that are important and lend...
Three days ago, on March 17th, Esha Chioccio left Santa Fe for Los Angeles kicking off the longest journey of the five instructors to the Hyderabad 2017 workshop. Esha met up with Fred Roberts and Nick Souza and together,...
Today is always a huge day for us. We usually don’t do anything but build the slide shows all day and that is more than enough to keep us busy. Last night however, some of the Aga Khan staff...
By WENDY WALSH Thursday began with students who seemed revived from an extra hour of sleep. You learn pretty early on in this workshop game that bus naps and frequent tea and snack breaks make for happy, productive teenage photographers!...
The day started like they all do, with us gathered in the classroom, in the dark, looking at all of the brilliant images these guys shot yesterday. Their exposures are coming into line, they are more comfortable with their...
After today, we have the most taxing of the week behind us. We had our second long day in the classroom and this time we solidified our understanding of exposure and then worked on, composition, blur, and depth of...
Fred begins every class with a talk about photography as our ability to write with light. But like writing with pen or pencil, it’s not the “writing” that is important but what the author or photographer is trying to...
Today we suffered a couple of unusual luxuries for our team. Firstly, with the progress we’ve made over the last couple days, largely a function of months of hard work by Fred and our local coordinators, we were...