Los Angeles, Day 8: Graduation
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...
Los Angeles, Day 5: STEM class, Mother’s Teaching Kitchen, Lafayette Skate Park, LA Rakers
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...
Los Angeles, Day 4: Our First Assignments
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...
Los Angeles, Day 3: Shooting in the Rain
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...
Los Angeles, Day 1: Arrival and Preparation
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...
India, Day 9: Graduation
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...
India, Day 8: Prepping for Graduation
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...
India, Day 7: To Write With Light
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!...
India 2015, Day 6: Our First Location, The Qutb Shahi Tombs
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...
India 2015, Day 4: The First Day of Class
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...