"This workshop is about visual storytelling and how we can make powerful new kinds of images to tell personal stories or document human issues. The biggest challenge today for visual storytellers is how to make work that will affect our audiences who are being bombarded by billions of images. Our photographic approach or style along with our editing and sequencing will determine our work’s success, whether it be published, exhibited, or presented to an audience. We have to find new ways to see the world around us, to re-see it and find new visual ideas for our work to be effective. This will be the focus of this workshop."
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Participants may use the workshop to continue working on previous projects, approach a new story idea or begin a project or essay over the course of the week.
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WHATÂ TO BRING
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Please bring a camera or cameras, or at least a smart phone that takes pictures, along with 10 of your favorite photos to share with the class.Â
APPLICATION AND PRICE
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The fee for this weeklong workshop is $1,200. Â
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Space in this workshop is very limited. If your application is approved and you are invited to participate, we will provide further payment instructions and reserve your spot. Please apply by Monday, February 29.
"This workshop is about visual storytelling and how we can make powerful new kinds of images to tell personal stories or document human issues. The biggest challenge today for visual storytellers is how to make work that will affect our audiences who are being bombarded by billions of images. Our photographic approach or style along with our editing and sequencing will determine our work’s success, whether it be published, exhibited, or presented to an audience. We have to find new ways to see the world around us, to re-see it and find new visual ideas for our work to be effective. This will be the focus of this workshop."
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Participants may use the workshop to continue working on previous projects, approach a new story idea or begin a project or essay over the course of the week.
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WHEN
The workshop will start on Monday, April 4th at 9:30 am. Â You will meet each day from 9:30 am to 5:00 pm at the CUNY Graduate School of Jouranlism. The last of of the workshop is Friday, April 8th.Â
WHATÂ TO BRING
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Please bring a camera or cameras along with 10 of your favorite photos to share with the class.Â
APPLICATION AND PRICE
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The fee for this weeklong workshop is $1,200. Â Not eligible for discounts.Â
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If your application is approved and you are invited to participate, we will provide further payment instructions
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Apply soon and reserve your spot as space is very limited.Â
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Maggie's experience. Maggie will share her long term projects, including many stories she shot for National Geographic Magazine, and discuss how she researched them and found her focus.
Photography review. You will look at a variety of work by dynamic visual storytellers who brought something new to the conversation and produced stand out work.
Shooting. You will shoot photos every day for your project and review them in class the next day.
Editing and sequencing. You will hone your skills on making stronger editing and sequencing of your work, is one of Maggie's strong suits.
Guest photographers. Guest photographers will come in to present their work and how they approached and found support for it.Â
Maggie Steber is a documentary photographer who has worked in 66 countries on humanistic, cultural, and historical projects. Her honors include the Leica Medal of Excellence, World Press Photo Foundation, the Overseas Press Club, Pictures of the Year, the Medal of Honor for Distinguished Service to Journalism from the University of Missouri, the Alicia Patterson Grant, the Ernst Haas Grant, and a Knight Foundation grant for the New American Newspaper project.
In 2013 Steber was named as one of eleven Women of Vision by National Geographic Magazine, publishing a book and touring an exhibition in five cities.
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For over three decades, Steber has worked in Haiti. Aperture published her monograph, DANCING ON FIRE. Steber has a website dedicated to Haiti entitled www.audacityofbeauty.com. Steber served as a Newsweek Magazine contract photographer for four years and as the Asst. Managing Editor of Photography and Features at The Miami Herald, overseeing projects that won a Pulitzer and were twice finalists for the award. She served as
a jurist for the 2014 Pulitzer Prize awards. Her work is included in the Library of Congress and The Richter Library among others and she has exhibited internationally. Clients include National Geographic Magazine, The New York Times Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, AARP, The Guardian, and Geo Magazine. Steber teaches workshops internationally including at the World Press Joop Swart Master Classes, the International Center for Photography, Foundry Workshops and and the Obscura Photo Festival.
SuperResearcher with Barbara Gray: Jan. 7, 19, 21, 28.Â
Smarter Photos with Smart Phones:Â Jan. 23.
Chat Apps for News:Â Feb. 3.
How to be a Social Media Editor with Blair Hickman: Feb. 16, 23, March 1, 8, 15.
Intro to Adobe Premiere Pro CC:Â Feb. 24, March 2, 9, 16, 23.
Intro to Food Writing and Photography: March 19.
Video for Social Media with Bob Sacha: March 30.
Video Storytelling for the Web with Bob Sacha:Â April 23-24, and April 30-May 1.
Sensor Reporting for the Environment with John Keefe: April 13.
iPhone Video with Bob Sacha:Â April 16.
Online Security Install Party with Mike Tigas: May 11.
Smarter Photos with Smart Phones:Â May 14.
Data Storytelling and Visualization with Sandeep Junarkar:Â June 1, 8, 15, 22, 29.
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