Today was a dramatic shift in subject matter for our students. After two days of practice photographing buildings, trees, our friends and instructors, we set off into the Aga Khan Museum to capture its daily activities. This meant we’d be approaching...
Los Angeles, Day 6: The Music Story For our last day of photographing, the students went over to the music building on the Heart of Los Angeles campus. Our teams split into groups and photographed in different departments of...
This morning was the culmination of the entire week’s work, with a ceremony and exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. As we set up the presentation of the student’s work at LACMA, the students began to...
Saturday began just as they have at our past workshops, with all of our instructors sequestered in a classroom at Heart of Los Angeles slaving over computers! As is our new tradition, we also had the students come in...
Yesterday, one of our groups photographed in a small and locally famous tamale kitchen. Today we had those tamales for lunch and they were the best we’ve ever had! (I have three more tamales stuffed in my camera bag...
The first half of today was pretty typical. We did our photo critique and had a lecture in the morning. But lunch today was pretty fantastic! We had a Salvadoran dish called pupusas from one of the many amazing...
El Niño is in full effect here, and we are working around unusually wet weather here in LA. Lucky for us, Lafayette Park is across the street. Today we did our usual running exercise where some poor student or...
Along with a documentary crew, we also have a writer (who previously wrote for a major newspaper) covering the workshop experience. About three-quarters of the way through the morning she pulled me aside and asked, “Isn’t this a lot...
Faculty member Wendy Walsh arrived this morning, coming in on a 5 a.m. flight from Peru. The team assembled as we launched another episode of the Fred Roberts Photography Workshops – this time in Los Angeles. Our inaugural workshop...
Of course, when we look back we now, the work we put in all week is what gets us to Saturday: all of the hours the students put into the classroom learning the technique, the hours looking at images...