Visual Storytelling Workshopwith Louisa Marie Summer

In our storytelling workshop we take a detailed look at the participants latest photographic works and provide individual and constructive feedback. Finally the visual stories are collectively edited.

What is the learning objective?

The award-winning documentary photographer Louisa Marie Summer will be working with the group of participating pho-tographers and take a close and critical look at their current or newly begun bodies of work. The workshop will span over two weekends. Following the first weekend, participants are encouraged to use the newly acquired feedback and implement it into their practical work. During the second weekend, their process will be discussed and the projects current status will be finalized and edited.

The workshop‘s primary focus lies in the development of individual, visual narratives in the tradition of documen-tary storytelling.

Visual storytelling connects the appeal of a good story with the fascination a good image holds. Next to methodic rules of storytelling - where and how to insert storytelling, the possible meanings and language of an image and patterns a story is modelled after - the workshop enables intensive image discussions and debates within the group of participants.

The composition of a strong and significant concept, a coherent selection of images, sequencing images in an exciting way and a fitting artistic presentation of the project are the main priorities of the workshop. It aims to sen-sibilize it’s participants for the art of storytelling. Louisa Marie Summer’s goal is for all the participants to further develop their very own and personal visual language.

Date: Weekend seminar – 04–05 June 2016 and 02–03July 2016Duration: 4 days in total,from 10 AM till 6 PMLanguage: German/EnglishMax. number of participants: 10Target group: mid-level and ad-vanced photographersPrice: 420,00 EUR (VAT included)

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What are the requirements to participate in the workshop?

This workshop is targeted at photographers, advanced amateurs, photography graduates and advanced stu-dents. The participants should have gathered first experiences with documentary photography and ideally are already working on an idea / story which they can develop further during the workshop.

The workshop spans over two weekends which take place within a month. The long-term supervision enables a continuous and active development of the participants projects. Louisa Marie Summer will deal with all the introduced projects individually, analysing strengths and weaknesses. Alongside the group, proposals to impro-ve the projects are elaborated. The participants will be working on their projects independently between the two weekends. The progress of their work will be discussed during the second weekend and a final edit of images will be created.

The participants should be in possession of their own camera equipment and are ideally currently working on a long-term project which they would like to further discuss and develop during the time of the workshop. Actively working on their photographic projects during June would be very beneficial.

Any questions? Send an email to workshops@emerge-mag.com or call +49 (0) 30 23925999

Louisa Marie Summer, born 1983 in Munich, is an artist and documentary photo-grapher currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a University Diploma in Photo Design from the University of Applied Sciences Munich and a Master of Fine Arts in Photography from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.Her photographs have been published nationally and internationally in Süddeut-sche Zeitung, Die Zeit, National Geographic, Rolling Stone, Wall Street Journal, Vogue, Dummy and Leica Fotografie International. In 2012 Schilt Publishing publis-hed her book Jennifer’s Family. Louisa’s images have been exhibited and collected internationally, most recently, in Russia, Luxembourg and the United States. Her work became part of the famous Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy Collecti-on in Sharon, CT and the Photography Archive of the Centre National de l’Audiovi-suel in Luxembourg, L.

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