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NYC WORKSHOP - FOR MORE INFO / REGISTER YOUR INTEREST 📷 🗽 🚕 🍎
About this workshop
This three-day, immersive workshop is designed for those looking to take the next step in their street photography journey. It is a course for photographers who are moving from building their confidence and skills towards finding direction in their work, editing and sequencing images to craft narratives and projects.
Breakdown/ Itinerary
FRIDAY:
Commencing in the evening of Friday Oct 4th, with a meet and greet and talk that will introduce the concept of effective reflective practice, this workshop will initially develop your knowledge of street photography’s visual history, increase your visual literacy by examining the components of ‘great’ photographs, and encourage you to consider your own work with a more critical eye.
SATURDAY:
On the Saturday, we will be taking to the streets of New York City to put into practice the skills covered during the previous session: Observation, Composition, Technical Proficiency, Patience and Timing, & Making Adjustments.
SUNDAY:
On Sunday, we then move towards questions of developing voice, style, originality and vision. Participants will come prepared with their images from Saturday afternoon’s shooting session loaded on their devices, which will then be edited down into a cohesive and sequenced series. We will look at practical ways to edit and sequence work, case-studies, visual storytelling through concept, theme, tropes and structure, as well as methods for producing and presenting finished work via self-publication.
About Your Instructor
“As well as being an awarded and globally celebrated street photographer, I am a confident and qualified educator, having completed my Master’s degree from The University of Sydney in Teaching, and going on to lead workshops around Australia and overseas. I believe in fostering a culture of constructive and practical learning.”
Credit: Abril Felman, City of Sydney, 2024
Sam Ferris is one of Australia’s most prolific and awarded contemporary street photographers. Ferris’ work has been exhibited across the globe and featured in numerous publications. His Sydney portfolio was selected for the recent Thames & Hudson anthology ‘Reclaim the Street’ (2023), edited by Matt Stuart. He was amongst three Australian photographers with images selected for the landmark title ‘100 Great Street Photographs’ (2017), by Prestel Publishing and edited by David Gibson. Recently, his work has received major features in both Epic Review and Leica Fotographie International magazines.
In 2022, Ferris was honoured to be named a judge of the $10,000 ‘Australian Life’ Photographic Prize, of which he has also been a three-time finalist in 2015, 2021 & 2023, where his image went on to be named the First Prize winner. He was named 'Australasia's Top Emerging Photographer' in 2019 in the category of documentary/ photojournalism by a panel of over 30 local and international judges and in 2020, he was profiled for the Australian Photographers’ Journal 'Why Photograph?' series. 2021 saw Ferris publish his first monograph, In Visible Light, which has since sold out in its first, second and third printings.