Documentary Photography Workshop: “Visualizing the Geography of your city”
Stephen Kelly (www.stephenkellystudio.com) and PICZ are offering an intimate group documentary photography workshop in Zurich over 2 days. The workshop will enable the participants to explore and develop their skills as documentary photographers, inside a small map grid of their own city.
The workshop will commence on the morning of April 30th with a presentation of his three new interconnected personal projects, developed in Yangon, Myanmar over the last two years. These series explore the relationships between the colonial architectural remnants of downtown Yangon and the way these structures and spaces are used and occupied today. He will present the series, discussing the approach needed to build a coherent documentary project.
Maximum number of participants: 12
Details and Registration to the workshop here.
living spaces inside a building
Inside space, someone’s hands holding a newspaper
During the Workshop, Stephen will:
- Present his approach to Reportage Photography
- Guide participants in approaching there subject
- Discuss and share about the selection process
- Discuss and provide guidance through the editing process
Stephen will also make himself available to follow up with one skype tutorial per participant during the following month, to provide feedback on the direction and development of their projects.
Front view of a building
More about Stephen Kelly.
“With in-depth research, planning, production, editing, sequencing and presentation all being equally as important. Within all my series in Yangon, I work in confined spaces. It may be one street or within the walls of one building, but every wall, stairwell, room, back alley is massively important to me. This approach makes you as the photographer slow down, both mentally and physically. You need to think creatively, have control, be patient and wait for the right moments…it’s slow journalism.
My way of working is quiet and considered and I would like the participants to explore and develop this approach, to train their mind and eye to think carefully and intimately about the confined spaces they will explore.”
Stephen Kelly was born in West Cumbria, England in 1983. He grew up in Lagos, Muscat, Hong Kong and London.
After graduating from the University of Wales, Newport School of Documentary Photography, Stephen returned to Hong Kong where he worked on personal projects and carried out editorial assignments across China. Between 2013 and 2015, he lived in Burma, where he worked on commissions throughout the country and focused on a number of new projects in Rangoon, one of which he continues to develop. Documenting social, political and environmental issues in Asia, Stephen is particularly interested in exploring how urban development is shaping and transforming landscapes, communities and identities.
His clients include WWF, UNHCR, ActionAid, IOM, The Independent Magazine, The Observer Magazine, D La Republicca delle Donne, IL Magazine and The New York Times.
view on a street
