Want to learn and improve your own documentary family photography with some of our contributors and alum contributors? Here’s some opportunities to work with our current and past contributors:
The Documentary Department (Natasha Kelly & Erika Roa)
Melbourne, Australia – March 2019
The Documentary Department is a photography retreat hosted by Natasha Kelly (Natasha Kelly Photography) and Erika Roa (Little Fish Photo) for women interested in the genre of documentary photography as a way to connect with each other and re connect with their work.
Erika and Natasha wanted to create an experience that focused on documentary photography as an overarching genre including discussions on personal projects and hands on opportunities to shoot street and documentary family work. And, most importantly, they wanted to create an experience that focused on critique. In a genre where the photographer does no manipulating and makes a million split second decisions, there is only so much one can garner from instructional text. Instead, the best education comes in the form of receiving critique as well as critically analyzing the work of others.
www.thedocumentarydepartment.com
Documenting the Unapologetic Life (Felicia Chang)
Do you ever ask yourself why most families’ photographs reflect only beautiful, joyful, or funny moments? Do you find yourself wanting to photograph the other facets of life that do not fit into a neatly curated box, but were too afraid to do it or ashamed to share it? What if there was a way to document all the moments and details that life has to offer, but in an unapologetic way with your own photographic voice, and make photos that allow others to find comfort and
self-acceptance by sharing them? This Breakout takes you on an introspective journey, exploring life and reality. It will empower you to confront fears that prevent photographs from being taken. Using a documentary approach, it gives you the practical tools to make photographs that embrace both your reality and that of your clients’ multi-dimensional lives.
“Just tell me the truth, so that I can find my story in your photos”.
Purchase here.
Finding Your Focus (Jessica Uhler)
Your figurative focus, that is. Are you swirling around creatively, trying to find your vision and not sure how to weed through all the noise? Do you want to grow as a photographer and need some help even figuring out what the next steps might be? Maybe you know where you want to end up, but you’re not sure how to get there. Or maybe you just want some really honest image critique and portfolio review.
Friend, I got you.
I love to ask good, hard, deep questions that help creatives find their way and better align the deepest parts of who they are with the art they make.
More information here.