MAGNUM WORKSHOP OSLO
Oslo, Norway. March 4-8, 2008
The Magnum Workshop Oslo is a five day event organized to provide maximum personal photographic growth through a combination of small, intensive, progressive shooting masterclasses with Magnum photographers. It offers subject-specific seminars and lectures and ample informal time allowing for cross-pollination and networking between students and instructors. Students will select one of the following Magnum photographers as a workshop leader: David Alan Harvey, Paolo Pellegrin, Alex Majoli, Christopher Anderson, Jonas Bendiksen, Alessandra Sanguinetti, or Alex Webb (joined by Rebecca Norris Webb), and will also have access to all participating Workshop leaders through the week. The event is organized in collaboration with the Norwegian Press Photographer’s Association, Bilder Nordic Photography School, and the Oslo College of Photojournalism.
The Masterclasses:
Participants will produce individual projects under the same constraints as a professional assignment, but with daily review and editing sessions within their groups. Focusing on story formation, visual literacy, and personal vision, these intimate, intensive masterclasses form the center of the Oslo Workshop. Resulting projects will be exhibited in a group show with high visibility at the end of the week at Litteraturhuset, one of Northern Europe’s most prominent cultural locales. Our on-site HP printing staff will work together with students to produce large format exhibition prints using HP’s state of the art z-3100 printers. A multimedia project about the Oslo Workshop featuring student work will be produced by Magnum in Motion and will appear on Magnum Photo’s Website.P>
The Festival:
Participants in the workshops also receive a festival pass for the weeklong photographic lecture series “Dok/08”, which is co-produced with the Norwegian Press Photographers Association each evening at Litteraturhuset’s auditorium in central Oslo. These evenings will bring roundtable discussions, presentations of the workshop leader’s personal work, and seminars addressing pressing issues facing photojournalism today. Speakers include our Workshop instructors, additional Magnum photographers and other luminaries from the international photographic community including leading international photo editors and innovators in multimedia. All Workshop and Festival events are held in close proximity and will spill over into intimate gatherings nightly.
Why Oslo?
As a shooting locale, Oslo is an energetic city rich with potential stories. A cosmopolitan North European city with a growing mixture of ethnic communities, Oslo is in the midst of transition. The old meets the new, and with varied neighborhoods and a vibrant street life, it is small enough in scale that students can roam every corner easily on their chosen assignments. Visually, the workshops are set at a time when the winter darkness breaks and the unique sub-arctic spring light provides myriad photographic opportunities.P>
Requirements:
The Oslo Workshop is aimed at photographers who are dedicated to pushing their own personal photographic boundaries. This includes both professional and amateur photographers, but requires participants to arrive ready to work and to take their photography to a new level. This is not a workshop designed for beginning photographers, and students are required to submit samples of their work for review before being accepted. Due to high interest, there will be a multi-tiered admission process. The first deadline for acceptance is January 30, and qualified applicants will be selected through a combination of the merit of their work and their personal statement, and the order of their application’s receipt. All applications received after January 30 will be reviewed space permitting. Due to the fast pace of the week, participants are expected to arrive prepared to produce and edit their projects digitally. Our classrooms come equipped with wireless digital workstations. For those who do not have their own laptops, imacs are available for use. Students must bring their own digital cameras. For those Students who would like to shoot film, they may do so but must have all film developed at their own cost and on the required deadlines.
Tuition:
$1650 (does not include travel, accommodations or on the ground expenses)
Accomodations:
Magnum has reserved a block of rooms at a great, affordable hotel located directly across from the evening events. These rooms are blocked until February 3, so early booking is advisable. Rooms must be booked directly using Magnum’s code, which will be provided upon registration. Double, triple and quadruple rooms are available and we will be happy to facilitate connections for students looking to share rooms (please email Song Chong at the email below). We can also provide a list of alternative lodging upon request. All participants will receive a full welcome package before arrival including logistical details on the ground as well as a discount at Magnum’s bookstore.
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