FINDING YOUR VISION: NEW YORK CITY, JUNE 14-18, 2024

Workshop Teachers: Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb

This workshop will be about finding your own unique vision of New York City by using the camera to explore the city in a direct, spontaneous way. Open to both serious amateurs and professionals alike, it is a workshop that will emphasize the development of your own personal way of seeing photographically. This workshop will also be about learning how to edit your work intuitively, and also include discussions about how to take your photography to the next level.

NOTE: This is a workshop for photographers who collaborate with the world, not for those who dramatically alter their photographs digitally. All participants must be vaccinated for COVID-19 in order to attend this workshop, and follow all COVID-19 protocols

Workshop location: Magnum Foundation, 59 W. 4th St. #7w, New York, NY 10003

Limit: 12 photographers

Applications open:  Monday, Jan. 15, 2024

Early Acceptance Deadline: Monday, Feb. 19, 2024

Early Acceptance Notification: Monday, Feb. 26, 2024

Final Application Deadline: Monday March 25, 2024, or whenever workshop fills

Workshop fee: US $2000 

Workshop Assistant: Bridget Lai

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE WORKSHOP

Please email:

1. 10jpgs (72dpi; 2000 pixels longest side) that represent who you are as a photographer, or direct us to a series or two on your website or other online link.  If you work in a series, please include a selection from one or two personal projects –– the work that represents your passions, your obsessions. 

2. Also include a short description of why you’d like to take this workshop and what or where you’d like to photograph for the week (no more than 150 words in a word doc).

3. Lastly, please include a short bio (not more than 100 words) that includes where you live, your day job,  and something about your relationship to photography.

Please write on the email’s subject line—FYV: NYC June 2024—and email your application to Bridget at the following email: webbnorriswebbworkshops@gmail.com

CLASSROOM SCHEDULE: In Brief

Friday: 9:30am-2:30pm

Saturday: 9:30am-1pm (Individual Meetings: 1:30-3pm)

Sunday: 9:30am-1pm (Individual Meetings: 1:30-3pm)

Monday: 9:30am-1pm (Individual Meetings: 1:30-3pm); Optional Dinner: 7-8:30pm

Tuesday: 9:30am-8:30pm

Schedule is subject to change at any time.

THE SCHEDULE

There are two main components of this class: the spontaneous act of photographing and intuitive editing.  The workshop will begin with Alex and Rebecca, a creative team who often edit projects together (including their joint books Brooklyn: The City Within and most recent book, Waves), who will critique each participant’s past work as a starting off point for a larger discussion about various photographic issues. By that first afternoon, participants will be working on their first assignment, which they will choose themselves. It may be a specific street, neighborhood, subculture, ethnic group, profession, family or individual; it may be continuing work on an ongoing project in New York City; but it must be something that you’re passionate enough to return to every day to photograph.

For the rest of the workshop, we will meet in the mornings and critique as a group each student’s ongoing work. Throughout the workshop, we will try to build a coherent set of images for each photographer that will begin to represent his or her photographic stance or attitude toward the city of New York. We will view this work as a group at the end of the workshop.

Besides photographing and editing each day, there will also be print and book demonstrations and an editing exercise.  We will also touch on a variety of topics, including the process of photographing spontaneously and intuitively; how to photograph in cultures other than one’s own; the relationship between images (such as the sequencing and juxtaposition of photographs); how to edit photographs intuitively; an introduction on being on press with a book; how to work with a designer on a book; the practical realities of the magazine and art worlds; the emotional and psychological implications of working in color vs. black and white; the difference between images in a book and images on the wall; and how long-term projects can evolve into books and exhibitions.  There will also be a chance for each participant to have a one-on-one meeting with Alex and Rebecca, including discussing a long-term project or work-in-progress that the participant is passionate about.

WHAT TO BRING THE FIRST DAY

The first day we would like all participants to bring about 30 PRINTS (NOT digital files), representing the work that they feel best represents who they are as photographers. We are interested in each participant’s individual vision, rather than whether he or she can work professionally or not. So bring the personal project or projects –– the work that represents your passions, your obsessions –– not the set of portraits done simply to satisfy an editor or art director. For the first reviews, we find that working with prints has huge benefits. The prints do not have to be fine prints: they can be cheap 4×6 machine prints, inkjet prints, etc. – just prints that enable us to see the image.

Participants need to bring their digital camera the first day, because they will go out and photograph immediately after class.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR THE WORKSHOP

During the week all participants will be photographing every day, except the last day. We encourage you to work digitally. All work needs to be downloaded into a single workshop computer attached to a digital projector. (We do not have time to shut down the projector and hook up individual laptops.) We need to be able to see work (from the previous day) at the beginning of the class everyday. Each participant will also need a thumb drive or hard drive, and a laptop with Bridge, Light Room, or another editing software. (Participants will only bring laptops the last day of the workshop.)

A FINAL NOTE: BRING QUESTIONS

And please bring lots of questions to the workshop. The ultimate direction of the workshop will be influenced by the kinds of questions that you pose.

PAYMENT

Via credit card or bank transfer, half the workshop fee ($1000) is due upon acceptance; the second half not later than Monday April 15, 2024. If they prefer, participants may also choose to make a single workshop payment.

Cancellation Policy: After payment in full, all but $100 will be refunded if we can find someone to fill your spot. If we can’t find someone to fill your spot, the complete amount — $2000 — can be put towards a future workshop that Alex and Rebecca produce.

BIOS

Alex Webb has published more than 15 books, including The Suffering of Light, a survey book of 30 years of his color photographs.He’s exhibited at museums worldwide including the Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y., the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A Magnum Photos member since 1979, his work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Geo, National Geographic, Vogue, and other publications. Webb has received numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2007. Some of his most recent books include La Calle: Photographs from Mexico and two collaborative books, Brooklyn: The City Within and Waves with Rebecca Norris Webb. His new Aperture book, Dislocations, was released in fall 2023.

Originally a poet, Rebecca Norris Webb often interweaves her text and photographs in her nine books, most notably with her monograph, My Dakota—an elegy for her brother who died unexpectedly—with a solo exhibition of the work at The Cleveland Museum of Art in 2015. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, Le Monde, National Geographic, and is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Cleveland Museum of Art, and George Eastman Museum, Rochester, N.Y. An NEA grant recipient, Norris Webb’s upcoming 10^th book, A Difficulty Is a Light, will be released in Fall 2024 by Chose Commune, with an accompanying exhibition at Alessia Paladini Gallery, Milan. She’s currently working on a new project, Badlands.

Saturday May 21, NEW YORK, 2PM: Waves book signing, Robert Klein Gallery, Booth 218, AIPAD, 2PM, 415 5th Avenue, 2nd Floor, NY, NY

Friday May 27: PARIS, 6-7:30PM: Together & Apart: Talk & book signing, Magnum Galerie, Paris (limited seating). Register here for this free event.

Tuesday June 21: NEW YORK, 7-9PM: Waves: Talk/book signing with Darius Himes, International Head of Photographs at Christie’s, at Launch Photo Book Store/Michael Foley Gallery. Register here for this free event.

Friday, July 8: WELLFLEET, MA, 5-6:30PM: Waves Talk/Book signing, Preservation Hall, Wellfleet MA, 5-6:30PM. Register here for this free event.

VIRTUAL WAVES TALK

LINK TO VIDEO CONVERSATION WITH ALEX, REBECCA, AND RADIUS PUBLISHER & DESIGNER DAVID CHICKEY, ABOUT THE MAKING OF THE NEW COLLABORATIVE BOOK, WAVES.

PRE-ORDER WAVES

Thanks to all of you who’ve supported the production of our upcoming collaborative book, Waves, by preordering a limited edition or a copy of the book. We’ve nearly reached our fundraising goal to cover the production of Waves, a pandemic logbook in words and photographs on Cape Cod.

If you haven’t already, you can support the production of the book in one of two ways:

—Preorder a Waves Limited Edition (two small prints included; free worldwide shipping)

—Preorder a Waves book (signed/unsigned; free US shipping)

In addition, Radius Books, our nonprofit publisher, donates 300 copies of each book—including Waves—to underserved libraries.

May 4-9, 2022

Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb

This workshop will be about finding your own unique vision of New York City by using the camera to explore the city in a direct, spontaneous way. Open to both serious amateurs and professionals alike, it is a workshop that will emphasize the development of your own personal way of seeing photographically. This workshop will also be about learning how to edit your work intuitively, and also include discussions about how to take your photography to the next level.

NOTE: This is a workshop for photographers who collaborate with the world, not for those who dramatically alter their photographs digitally.

Workshop location: NYFA, 20 Jay Street, 7^th Floor, Dumbo, Brooklyn; Limit: 14 photographers

Applications open:  Monday, February 14, 2022

Early Application Deadline: Monday, Feb. 28, 2022

Early Acceptance Notification: Monday, March 7, 2022

Workshop fee: US $1900.  Upon workshop acceptance, a payment of $950; payment in full by Monday, April 4, 2022

NOTE: All participants must be vaccinated for COVID-19 in order to attend this workshop, and follow all COVID-19 protocols.

TO APPLY, PLEASE EMAIL THE FOLLOWING:

1.  10jpgs (72dpi; 2000 pixels longest side) that represent who you are as a photographer. We aren’t interested in photographs done simply to satisfy an editor or art director or client. If you’re working on a project, please include a selection from the project.

2. Short statement about why you’d like to take this workshop (not more than 150 words).

3. Short bio: include where you live, something about your relationship to photography, and what you see as your next step photographically (not more than 100 words)

Please write on the email’s subject line—FYV: NYC 2022—and email your application to: webbnorriswebbworkshops@gmail.com

MORE ABOUT THE WORKSHOP:

There are two main components of this class: the spontaneous act of photographing and intuitive editing.  The workshop will begin with Alex and Rebecca, a creative team who often edit projects together (including their recent collaborative book Brooklyn: The City Within, and their upcoming book, Waves), who will critique each participant’s past work as a starting off point for a larger discussion about various photographic issues. By that first afternoon, participants will be working on their first assignment, which they will choose themselves. It may be a specific street, neighborhood, subculture, ethnic group, profession, family or individual; it may be photographing various events or festivals around the city, such as the Cinco de Mayo celebrations in Mexican communities around the city; it may be continuing work on an ongoing project in New York City; but it must be something that you’re passionate enough to return to every day to photograph.

For the rest of the workshop, we will meet in the mornings and critique as a group each student’s ongoing work. Throughout the workshop, we will try to build a coherent set of images for each photographer that will begin to represent his or her photographic stance or attitude toward the city of New York. We will view this work as a group at the end of the workshop.

Besides photographing and editing each day, there will also be print and book demonstrations and an editing exercise.  We will also touch on a variety of topics, including the process of photographing spontaneously and intuitively; how to photograph in cultures other than one’s own; the relationship between images (such as the sequencing and juxtaposition of photographs); how to edit photographs intuitively; an introduction on being on press with a book; how to work with a designer on a book; the practical realities of the magazine and art worlds; the emotional and psychological implications of working in color vs. black and white; the difference between images in a book and images on the wall; and how long-term projects can evolve into books and exhibitions.  There will also be a chance for each participant to have a one-on-one meeting with Alex and Rebecca, including, if you wish, a review of a long-term project or work-in-progress that the participant is passionate about.

Do you know where you’re going next with your photographs — or where they are taking you? Consider joining Alex and Rebecca — who have created some 20 books between the two of them — for this intensive selecting-and-sequencing workshop, called the Art of Editing Online Workshop. During three intensive days, Alex and Rebecca will guide you through the process of shaping a series of photographs that you are passionate about into a coherent whole. Alex and Rebecca will tailor two individual assignments for each participant’s work. The workshop will also include book presentations, a group editing exercise, and an individual meeting with Alex and Rebecca.

WORKSHOP DATES: Saturday January 15-Monday January 17, 2022

WORKSHOP LOCATION: ZOOM

WORKSHOP LIMIT: 8 participants

WORKSHOP COST: $1250

APPLICATIONS OPEN: Monday July 19, 2021

EARLY APPLICATIONS CLOSE: Thursday August 26, 2021 12:00 PM ET

EARLY APPLICATION NOTIFICATION: Monday August 30, 2021

—WAIT LIST ONLY. To be added to the Wait List, please email Tash at webbnorriswebbworkshops@gmail.com with a link to your work online.

IF YOU’D LIKE TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THIS WORKSHOP, PLEASE EMAIL THE FOLLOWING TO TASH, and put ART OF EDITING 2022 on the email’s subject line: webbnorriswebbworkshops@gmail.com

1. Link to your series or project online, or 10 small jpgs (2000 pixels longest side, 72 dpi)
2. Short description of your series/project (no more than 100 words)
3. Statement about why you’d like to take this workshop (no more than 100 words)
4. Short bio, including where you live and your relationship to photography (no more than 50 words

Saturday Jan. 15: 9:30 AM ET — 4 PM ET

Sunday Jan. 16: Individual sessions between 9:15 AM ET — 6PM ET; Group session: 1-2:15 PM ET

Monday Jan. 17: 10 AM ET — 5 PM ET

Photo: Alex Webb, Park Slope, 2018, from the joint Aperture book, Brooklyn: The City Within, with Rebecca Norris Webb

This in-person workshop with Alex Webb & Rebecca Norris Webb will be about finding your own unique vision of New York City by using the camera to explore the city in a direct, spontaneous way. Open to both serious amateurs and professionals alike, it is a workshop that will emphasize the development of your own personal way of seeing photographically. This workshop will also be about learning how to edit your work intuitively, and also include discussions about how to take your photography to the next level.

Workshop Dates: Thursday October 28-Tuesday November 2, 2021

Workshop location: NYFA; 20 Jay Street, 7^th Floor, Dumbo, Brooklyn (near the F subway stop)

Limit: 8 photographers

ONLY ONE SPACE LEFT IN THIS WORKSHOP

Workshop Assistant: Natasha Lehner

Everyone must be fully COVID-19 vaccinated to attend this workshop, and bring a copy of their vaccination record on the first day of the workshop.

Workshop Fee: $1900. $950 on acceptance; $950 by Monday August 30, 2021

MORE ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

There are two main components of this class: the spontaneous act of photographing and intuitive editing.  The workshop will begin with Alex and Rebecca, a creative team who often edit projects together (including their joint Aperture books Brooklyn: The City Within and Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb on Street Photography and the Poetic Image), who will critique each participant’s past work as a starting off point for a larger discussion about various photographic issues. By that first afternoon, participants will be working on their first assignment, which they will choose themselves. It may be a specific street, neighborhood, subculture, ethnic group, profession, family or individual; it may be photographing various events or festivals around the city, it may be continuing work on an ongoing project in New York City; but it must be something that you’re passionate enough to return to every day to photograph.

For the rest of the workshop, we will meet in the mornings and critique as a group each student’s ongoing work. Throughout the workshop, we will try to build a coherent set of images for each photographer that will begin to represent his or her photographic stance or attitude toward the city of New York. We will view this work as a group at the end of the workshop.

NOTE: This is a workshop for photographers who collaborate with the world, not for those who dramatically alter their photographs digitally. You must be at least 18 years old to apply.

TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE WORKSHOP

Please email:

1,  10jpgs (72dpi; 2000 pixels longest side) that represent who you are as a photographer, or direct us to a series or two on your website or other online link.  If you work in a series, please include a selection from one or two personal projects –– the work that represents your passions, your obsessions. 

2, Also include a short description of why you’d like to take this workshop and what or where you’d like to photograph for the week (no more than 150 words in a word doc).

3. Lastly, please include a short bio (not more than 100 words) that includes where you live, your day job,  and something about your relationship to photography.

Please write on the email’s subject line—FYV: NYC 2021—and email your application to Natasha at webbnorriswebbworkshops@gmail.com

CLASSROOM SCHEDULE

Thursday: 9:30am-3pm

Friday-Saturday: 9:30am-1:00pm

Sunday: Individual meetings: 10-12; 12:30-2:30pm

Monday: 9:30am-1pm

Tuesday: 9:30am-3pm; 7-8:00pm

Schedule is subject to change at any time.

WORKSHOP FEE: $1900

Upon workshop acceptance, a payment of $950; payment in full two months before the workshop begins — Friday, July 23, 2021.

Cancellation Policy: After payment in full, all but $100 will be refunded if we can find someone to fill your spot. If we can’t find someone to fill your spot, the complete amount — $1900 — can be put towards a future workshop that Alex and Rebecca produce.

In the U.S., you have the option of paying by check or credit card. 

—If paying by check, please make the checks out to Alex Webb and mail to:

Alex Webb/ Rebecca Norris Webb

319 Garfield Pl., #1B

Brooklyn, NY   11215

—If paying by credit card, please make payment arrangments directly with Alex: webbnorriswebb@gmail.com

Participants living outside the U.S. can make pay via bank transfer or credit card

—If via bank transfer or credit card, you will make payment arrangements directly with Alex: webbnorriswebb@gmail.com

Please note: Housing, food, transportation, are the responsibility of the workshop participants.

Photo: Rebecca Norris Webb, Shimmering, 2018, from the joint Aperture book, Brooklyn: The City Within, with Alex Webb

SATURDAY MARCH 27, 3PM EDT: Join us for this free online conversation with photographers Alex Webb and Christian Cravo, an event that’s part of Festival Transatlantico in Brazil.

YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/c/InstitutoMarioCravoNeto

FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/festivaltransatlantico

BUY ALEX’S MAGNUM SQUARE PRINT: https://bit.ly/315G44O

ART OF EDITING ONLINE WORKSHOP
Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb
DATES: January 16-18, 2021
LOCATION: ZOOM: FEE: $1500: LIMIT: 8 Projects
APPLICATION DEADLINE: Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Do you know where you’re going next with your project—or where it’s taking you? Consider joining Alex and Rebecca—who have created 20 books between the two of them—for this intensive selecting-and-sequencing workshop, called the Art of Editing. During three intensive days, Alex and Rebecca will guide you through the process of shaping into a coherent whole a series of photographs from a project that you’re passionate about. Over the course of the workshop, they will tailor two individual assignments for each participant’s project. The workshop will also include book presentations, a group editing exercise, an individual meeting with Alex and Rebecca, and a private meeting with a designer who will create a possible cover for your project.

Workshop Schedule in Brief
Saturday: 9:30AM ET—4PM ET
Sunday: Book Presentation: 1-2:15PM ET. For the rest of the day, individual meetings with the Webbs and with the designer will be arranged. Optional digital meetings with Mark are also available.
Monday: 10AM-5:30PM ET

To apply, please email the following to Mark Davis, the workshop assistant: webbnorriswebbworkshops@gmail.com

1. A link to your project online, or 10 small jpgs (2000 pixels longest side, 72 dpi) from your project.
2. A short statement about your project (no more 100 words)
3. Statement about why you’d like to take this workshop (no more than 100 words)
4. Short bio, including where you live, your relationship to photography, and, if you have them, links to your website and Instagram (no more than 50 words)

APPLICATION DEADLINE: Tuesday, December 15, 2020