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...
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...
This morning, we did our first critique of the students’ photos. Usually, we project the images on the wall. Not this time! Our classroom is equipped with two huge flat screen televisions. It’s so nice to be able to see the images in such an...
Today, we finally met our students. Of our 20 students, 14 are Afghan refugees. The kids are a fantastic group of students with incredible stories and diverse family narratives. Our first couple of days of each workshop are similar: we hand out...
After spending three hours in customs and immigration, Fred arrived from Los Angeles. Wendy drove from Rochester, New York, and Sarah flew in from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Mike landed and went straight to bed after a long...
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...