Lisbon 2018 – Scout Day
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...
Toronto 2017 – Beginner Day 8 – The Graduation
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...
Toronto 2017 – Beginner Day 7 – The Graduation Edit
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...
Toronto 2017 – Beginner Class Day 6 – Our final story location and last day of photography…
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...
Toronto 2017 – Beginner Class Day 5 – Second Assignment Day: The Library and the community clothing drive
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...
Toronto 2017 – Beginner Class Day 4 – The Young People’s Theater of Toronto
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...
Toronto 2017 – Beginner Class Day 3 – Camera basics II, our first critique, and a chance to be on TV…
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...
Toronto 2017 – Beginner Class Day 2 – Getting into the Cameras
Usually when we have an advanced class, we ask 4 or 5 of the students if they would like to come help with the Beginners class the following week. This week, we have nearly ALL of the students from...
Toronto 2017 – Beginner Class Day 1 – Tech Day
It’s Saturday afternoon and the new class has arrived. Our first day of the beginning workshop used to be limited to only a few students who would be briefed on the technical side of the workflow process ahead of...
Toronto 2017 – Advanced Class Day 3
The last day of our advanced workshop is planned to resemble a real-life shoot day as closely as possible. As soon as we arrived, the teams got their cameras and immediately headed out to their locations to get the...