This class will explore with students the fundamentals of formulating a photo essay. There will be a discussion about the social and political relevance of the students intended stories, and what aspects of them students will need to document to convey their chosen story to an audience. This discussion will focus on how they can achieve this practically, as well as photographically. Once students have embarked on their stories there will be daily editing sessions to discuss the direction their work is taking. The aim of the class will be to develop a visual narrative through both personal style and photographic techniques.

Photographing stories often involves a myriad of professional and personal challenges that teach us all to be better photographers.  Ron Haviv will help you whether you are working in your own neighborhood or overseas by combining portfolio reviews, assignments, editing sessions, and dialogue. This workshop embraces a multi-faceted approach to photojournalism, from developing a personal sensitivity and working in the field to visual style and getting work seen.

All students in this class will come to the workshop with a general theme or issue they would like to explore in Istanbul. (These ideas should be emailed to me before we arrive in Istanbul). Once we are there we will discuss ways to make the story personal–to get involved with the issue on an intimate level. The goal of this class is to come away with emotional and empathetic photos to bring viewers closer to issues and the people they affect.

Tyler Hicks is a staff photographer for The New York Times.  Mr. Hicks began working for the Times as a freelance photographer covering the war in Kosovo in 1997.  He earned a contract with the Times in 1999, based in Nairobi, Kenya and photographed conflicts in Congo, Somalia and Sudan.

After the September 11 terrorist attacks, Hicks traveled to Afghanistan for the Times and arrived in Kabul when the Northern Alliance liberated the city from Taliban control.  His award winning photographs of the execution of a Taliban fighter earned international attention.  He has returned to Afghanistan every year since and continues to document the conflict there.

Mr. Hicks graduated in 1992 with a B.A. in journalism from Boston University. After graduation, he worked as a photographer’s assistant at a commercial studio in Boston and then at The Troy Daily News, a small newspaper in Ohio where he spent a year as chief photographer.

He then moved on to North Carolina as a staff photographer for three years at The Wilmington Star-News in North Carolina. During this time, he photographed personal projects in Haiti, Albania and Kosovo.  Moved by the atrocities he saw in Kosovo, Mr. Hicks left his job to pursue a career in international news.

As a freelancer for the Times, Mr. Hicks lived with a Kosovar family while covering the escalating conflict in the Balkans.  Two years later, with the arrival of peacekeepers and an end to the conflict, he left to Africa to cover the escalating war between Eritrea and Ethiopia.

In 2009 Hicks’ photographs were part of a team Pulitzer Prize in International Reporting shared by the New York Times for its coverage of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

He received the Newspaper Photographer of the Year award from Pictures of the Year International (POYI) for his work in 2006.  In 2001, Mr. Hicks was the recipient of the 2001 ICP Infinity Award for Photojournalism for his coverage in Afghanistan, as well as other awards, including World Press, Pictures of the Year and the Visa Pour L’image in Perpignan, France.

Mr. Hicks was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on July 9, 1969.  He lives in Istanbul, Turkey.

The Foundry Photojournalism Workshop and our sponsors are happy to announce several full and half tuition scholarships to attend this year’s workshop.

In keeping with trying to have the Foundry be as ego-free an event as is possible, we call these the “No Need for a Name” scholarships. No big donors (we dont have any), no famous dead person or foundation to name it after. Just workshop tuition awards for needy talent on the cusp. Cusp of what ? Well, emerging is way too overused a word in this industry (emerging into what? a pretty butterfly? a broke photographer?), so we’ll use that Supreme Court case as an example- we know it when we see it.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING APPLICATION IS MARCH 1, 2010.

Winners will be announced around March 15, 2010.

Applying for a scholarship is easy.  You just need to send us an email with images from your portfolio attached.  Please follow the instructions below to make sure you will be considered.

You may submit NO MORE than 20 images for consideration.  You may submit a story, single images or a mix of both.  This is up to you, we want to see what you think is your best work.

1. Please name your images with your last name followed by the number, starting with 001.  (For example, If your name is John Smith, you would name your images: Smith_001, Smith_002, etc.)
2. Please include caption information under “file info” in photoshop.  If you are submitting a cohesive story, you should indicate this in the caption fields.
3. Resize images to 10 in on the longest side at 100 dpi.  Save it at compression/quality 8.  (In photoshop, go to image>image size, change the long side to 10in, change dpi to 100. When saving, you will be prompted to enter a number for the quality. Enter 8.)
4. Place the images in a folder and name it your last name.
5. After you have named, resized and captioned your photos, place them in a folder and then create a zip file or archive of this folder. (On a MAC, press control-click and select Compress “Smith” or Create Archive “Smith”.  On a PC, right-click and create archive or create zip)
6. Compose an email to info [at] foundryphotoworkshop [dot] org and attach your zip file.  (If it doesn’t fit in one email, split it into two parts and send two separate emails.)
7. In the subject line, write SCHOLARSHIP
8. In the body of the email, include your name, your citizenship and any professional or educational experience that is relevant.  Brief is best.  Please remember that this workshop is intended for students with three years or less professional experience.

If you have any questions about the application process, please review the above material carefully.  If you still have questions, feel free to contact Kirsten at  info [at] foundryphotoworkshop [dot] org.

If you have already paid tuition but would like to apply, you may do so.  If you are selected, your tuition will be refunded at the workshop.  These scholarships are only for tuition, you are still responsible for transportation, lodging, meals and other daily expenses. And booze. And Turkish delight. And any big ass carpets you wanna buy.

Addario was born in 1973, and began photographing professionally in 1996—with no photographic training or studies–for The Buenos Aires Herald in Argentina, where she worked over the course of one year before returning to the United States.   She then returned to New York, where she freelanced for the Associated Press for three years before moving back abroad to cover South Asia and Latin America for the AP, the Boston Globe and Houston Chronicle.  In 2001, Addario began working for The New York Times in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and since then, has freelanced for the NYT from bases in Mexico, Iraq, and Turkey, covering feature stories worldwide, in addition to the conflicts in Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon, Darfur, and Congo.

www.lynseyaddario.com

Lynsey has been the recipient of numerous awards, including:

MACARTHUR FELLOWSHIP, 2009: was one of 24 Americans named in September 2009 a recipient of the prestigious “genius award” of $500,000 from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation in recognition of her career in photojournalism.

PULITZER PRIZE, 2009: Awarded the Pulitzer Prize as part of the New York Times team for International Reporting.  Her photographic work was part of the NYT coverage of the war in Afghanistan for the magazine cover article ‘Talibanistan,’ Sept 7, 2008.

GETTY IMAGES GRANT FOR EDITORIAL PHOTOGRAPHY 2008: Was awarded a grant of $20,000 to enable her to continue her photographic work in Darfur, Sudan

FELLOW OF THE COLUMBIA COLLEGE OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS: awarded a fellowship to document a photo essay and accompanying interviews with victims of sexual assault in the Democratic Republic of Congo

FUJI YOUNG PHOTOGRAPHER, 2005

Perpignan, France: Chosen by Fuji as the young photographer of the year to exhibit photographs and present a slideshow at Visa pour L’Image for a photographic essay on injured American soldiers in Balad, Iraq

WORLD PRESS MASTERCLASS, Amsterdam: Selected as one of the 12 participants in the World Press Masterclass, created a body of work for the project, and exhibited it along with 11 other students at the Amsterdam Photography Museum, FOAM.

AMERICAN PHOTO ANNUAL: 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2008: Selected photo essays and singles appeared from Iraq, Mexico, and Pakistan for the annual ‘Best of…’ photo book.

INFINITY AWARD, International Center of Photography: Young Photographer of the Year, 2002, New York City

PDN’S THIRTY: Named one of the world’s 30 emerging photographers by Photo District News Magazine in their March 2002 issue

In a 24/7, Global-Village world, room for misinterpretation of media pictures abounds.  Photographers are cultural beings, they see and work with defined eyes.  What they present to the world may not always be received as intended.  Response can range from indifference to all-out rage and even conflict.  There are images, though, that defy cultural boundaries, pictures that resound deep-down inside of us to tell the story – wherever we may be.  These are the images that communicate most powerfully to today’s fast-paced and shrinking world, where photos often never get a second look.  These are the pictures that get noticed – that draw emotion and stand the greatest chance of making any kind of difference.  Class participants will explore through discussion and example just what constitutes a universally effective photograph in today’s world – and then go out and create some of their own.