We started this morning with our first critique of each student’s best three images from yesterday – their first day of shooting. The critique was led by Fred, Wendy, Sarah, and Esha. This was the first time the students...
There’s no looking back! Today was the first shooting day and the start of tremendous growth for the students. We started the day off with an introductory lesson from Wendy and Sarah. They explained what a camera is capable...
The First Day of School! Today we met the students and immediately jumped right into things with an introductory session in the morning and our tech session in the afternoon. We’ve started a new tradition of beginning these workshops...
Tomorrow is the big day! The 10 non-Academy students will arrive at 9 A.M. We spent the day getting the final details together before the start of the workshop tomorrow. Alex, Sarah, and Wendy drove off this morning to...
20 kids, 4 helpers, 5 instructors, 7 days… To say that’s all it takes for these workshops to happen is a mere understatement. Months of planning go into each session and from the moment our staff hits the ground,...
We had a student this week from the Roma community, a typically isolated community. There were a couple times this week we thought this student was going to walk out. He had never spent time outside of his community...
Edit Day…this is always a bit of a long day for us. It’s a tough one because we go through all of the students work, all 35,000 images, and editing down to about 470 photos with which we’ll create...
Today we followed Esha’s group as they explored the district of Alcantra. Our assignment is to photograph the local shops and observe how the traditional shops contrast with the newer institutions. We started by visiting a beautiful quaint little...
We may have turned a corner today…admittedly some of our locations have been difficult to work with, but it seems that on today’s shoot we were finally able to put all the concepts together. The groups split up today,...
After a morning camera exercise we headed out to explore the city! The neighborhood that we focused on is run by a new group of Portuguese entrepreneurs that have established every kind of shop imaginable! From restaurants to barbershops,...