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Essentials of Photography: On Gear, Composition, and Printing Carolyn Drake, David Hurn, Lua Ribeira, Martin Parr, Moises Saman, Yael Martínez, Zied Ben Romdhane

November 13 – 20, 2024
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Photography, in its early days, was primarily viewed as a technical marvel—capturing light and preserving moments in time. Over a century later, the tools and methods for making images have evolved dramatically, making photography more accessible than ever. At Magnum Learn, we focus on teaching photography from the point of the view of the storyteller, often setting the technical aspects aside.

But, thanks to a collaboration with Wex, we are pleased to offer a series of seminars dedicated to the essentials of photography: gear, composition, and printing.

The seminar will begin with an in-depth exploration of the cameras and lenses currently available, guided by Wex experts George Johnson and Tonderayi Machando, who will use case studies from Magnum photographers to demonstrate the capabilities of the material. Following this, we will present a live conversation between Martin Parr and David Hurn, streamed from the Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol.

In a subsequent session, Magnum photographers Carolyn Drake, Zied Ben Romdhane, Yael Martínez, Lua Ribeira and Moises Saman will discuss the deeply personal nature of image composition. Moderated by Jade Chao, this conversation will provide insight into what composition means to each of them.

To wrap up the series, Daniel Wheeler, a darkroom practitioner, will lead a session on the art of printing. Daniel will cover the traditional darkroom techniques and will be in conversation with Julien Alamo and Ana Vallejo of PICTO New York to talk about the latest in digital printing.

This seminar offers a rare opportunity to explore the fundamentals of photography through a comprehensive lens, bringing together technical expertise, creative insight, and the craft of image-making from starts to finish. Whether you’re a beginner or looking to refine your skills, these sessions will provide valuable perspectives from industry professionals and accomplished photographers.


Schedule

Session 1 – On gear
Wednesday 13 November – 12 pm NY time

Wex experts George Johnson and Tonderayi Machando will provide a comprehensive overview of the cameras and lenses currently available on the market and their functionalities. From ISO to depth of field and apertures, to the use of various lenses, this session will help you improve your skills with existing gear or offer insights if you’re considering acquiring new equipment.

Ample time will be given for questions.

Moderated by Sonia Jeunet

Session 2 – Insights on gear
Thursday 14 November – 11 am NY time

Live-streamed from the Martin Parr Foundation in Bristol, Martin Parr and David Hurn will discuss their gear and lenses, share insights, tips, and tricks, and answer questions.

As Martin Parr puts it, “This wide ranging exchange will use gear (and shoes) as a starting point and see where it takes us. Although having the right gear is essential, it is not the be-all and end-all.”

Moderated by Sonia Jeunet

Session 3 – On Composition
Tuesday 19 November – 12 pm NY time

In this session, five renowned photographers unpack the art of photographic composition through five differing approaches. Each photographer presents a unique perspective on how they capture compelling imagery: the drama of landscapes both natural and built, the intricate exchanges allowed by collaboration with subjects, journalistic assignments invested in humanity, and creative interventions with the frame through collage and manipulation. This seminar offers a rare opportunity to learn composition techniques from some of the industry’s most acclaimed photographers, as they showcase their work and describe how they conceive of, construct, and craft visual stories in their shots.

With Carolyn Drake, Zied Ben Romdhane, Moises Saman, Yael Martínez

Moderated by Jade Chao

Session 4 – On Printing
Wednesday 20 November – 12 pm NY time

Daniel Wheeler from Make It Easy Lab will discuss darkroom printing and John Blakemore’s approach to printing.

This session will also host Julien Alamo and Ana Vallejo of PICTO New York, who will show in details how best to prepare your files for digital printing, and what can be achieved.

Daniel will talk about the tactile and precious nature of black-and-white darkroom prints, exploring a more holistic approach to image-making while sharing physical prints on camera from his work with John Blakemore. We will cover topics such as home film processing, home darkroom setups, and the concepts of sculpting light and printing with emotion.

Contact

If you have any questions about this online seminar, please contact us : education@magnumphotos.com

  • The event will take place on Zoom Video Webinar
  • The series will spread over 10 days, with each session lasting 1.5 hours
  • The Magnum Learn team will be on hand to help with any difficulties joining the event
  • All participants will be encouraged to submit questions using the chat option
  • Participants who are not able to attend will receive the video and audio of the seminar after the event which can be viewed for a month

The price of this seminar is $150 + Eventbrite Fees.

Book now through this link.

The seminar will be taking place online, using the software Zoom. Prior to the start of the workshop, you will be sent instructions on how to connect for the seminar.

The seminar will take place between November 13 and 20, 2024.

The seminars will starts 12 pm NY time. Please refer to the schedule to double-check what time the session will start. The Magnum Education team will send you the joining links 2 days and 10 minutes before each event starts.

  • Full fees must be paid on application. Tickets are non-refundable and non-transferable.
  • Magnum Photos reserves the right to change or alter the program advertised.
  • Magnum Photos will refund in full if we cancel the event.

Magnum is committed to fostering a respectful and dignified environment that adheres to the highest level of professional standards. We strive to be inclusive and welcoming to everyone who works with or for Magnum and Magnum photographers, creating an environment in which each person’s rights, dignity and individual worth are respected.

You can read Magnum Photos Code of Conduct here.

Panelists:

Martin Parr
Martin Parr was born in 1952 in Epsom, Surrey. He is one of the best-known documentary photographers of his generation. With over 100 books of his own published, and another 30 edited by Parr, his photographic legacy is already established. Parr also acts as a curator. He has curated two photography festivals, Arles in 2004 and Brighton Biennial in 2010. In 2016, he curated the Barbican exhibition, Strange and Familiar. Parr has been a member of Magnum Photos since 1994 and was president from 2013 to 2017. In 2013, he was also appointed the visiting professor of photography at the University of Ulster. Parr’s work has been collected by many of the world’s leading museums, from Tate in the UK to the Centre Pompidou in Paris and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. He established the Martin Parr Foundation in 2017.
David Hurn
Born in 1934, of Welsh descent, David Hurn is a self-taught photographer who began his career in 1955 as an assistant at the Reflex Agency. While a freelance photographer, he gained his reputation with his reportage of the 1956 Hungarian revolution. Hurn eventually turned away from coverage of current affairs, preferring to take a more personal approach to photography. He became an associate member of Magnum Photos in 1965 and a full member in 1967. In 1973, he set up the famous School of Documentary Photography in Newport, Wales, and has been in demand throughout the world to teach workshops. In 1997, he collaborated on a very successful textbook with Professor Bill Jay, On Being a Photographer. However, it is his book Wales: Land of My Father that truly reflects Hurn’s style and creative impetus. In the last two decades of the 20th century, Wales experienced a remarkable transformation. From a country with an economy, culture and landscape dominated by agriculture and the heavy industries of coal, steel and slate, Wales has become a place where the mines, mills and quarries are closed, either for good or to be reinvented as mythical “heritage” tourist attractions, and where the new industries are high-tech and computer-based. Hurn’s book, a collection of carefully observed photographs, reveals both the traditional and the modern sides of the country. David Hurn has a longstanding international reputation as one of Britain’s leading reportage photographers. He continues to live and work in Wales.
Carolyn Drake
Carolyn Drake works on long-term, photo-based projects, seeking to interrogate dominant historical narratives and creatively reimagine them. Her practice embraces collaboration, and has, in recent years, melded photography with sewing, collage, and sculpture. She is interested in collapsing the traditional divides between author and subject, as well as the real and the imaginary. Drake was born in California in 1971, and studied media/culture and history at Brown University in the early 1990s. Following her graduation, she moved to New York and worked as an interactive designer for many years before departing to engage with the physical world through photography. After living in Istanbul and Ukraine and working internationally for a decade, she returned to the US in 2013 to work on more self-reflective projects close to home. Drake has authored four books, with her fifth, Men Untitled, released in September 2023. Her work has been supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Peter S. Reed Foundation, Light Work, the Lange-Taylor Prize, a Fulbright Fellowship and the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award, among others. She became a full member of Magnum Photos in 2019.
Zied Ben Romdhane
Zied Ben Romdhane, born in 1981 in Tunisia, shifted his focus to documentary photography in 2011. He published his first book, West of Life, in 2018 with Red Hook Editions. Ben Romdhane’s work is centered around his native Tunisia. He delves into the socio-political contrasts between inland regions and coastal areas, shedding light on how geography shapes these dynamics. He won the World Press Photo Prize in 2024, was selected for the 6X6 Global Talent Program in 2018 by the World Press Photo Foundation, participated in the Joop Swart Masterclass with World Press Photo, and received the POPCAP award (Africa Image, Basel, 2015). Zied also contributed as the Director of Photography for Fallega (2011), a documentary film documenting the Arab Spring in Tunisia. Furthermore, he actively participated in World Press Photo’s 2013 Reporting Change initiative and was a member of the collectives “Rawiya” and “Native.” Zied Ben Romdhane joined Magnum as a nominee in 2019.

Yael Martínez
Born in Guerrero in 1984, Yael Martínez creates work that addresses fractured communities in his native Mexico. He often works symbolically to evoke a sense of the emptiness, absence and pain suffered by those affected by the state and organized crime. Martínez has earned a number of honors for his photography, including the 2022 Wayfinder Award from The National Geographic society, membership in Mexico’s National System of Arts Creators (SNCA), and the 2019 W. Eugene Smith Fund Grant. Martínez won The World Press Photo in the region of North and Central America in the Open Format category in 2022 and second prize in the World Press Photo contest in the Long-Term Projects category in 2019. He is a fellow of the Photography and Social Justice Program of The Magnum Foundation. Martínez’s work has been featured in solo and group shows in Africa, Asia, Europe, and the United States. In addition to National Geographic, his work has been widely published in Aperture, The New York Times, Time, The Wall Street Journal, the New Yorker, Vogue Italy, Bloomberg News and Vrij Nederland. Martínez joined Magnum Photos in 2020 as a nominee, as an associate member in 2022, and as a full member in 2024.
Moises Saman
Moises Saman was born in Lima, Peru, in 1974 to a mixed Spanish and Peruvian family. At the age of one, he relocated with his family to Barcelona, Spain, where he spent most of his youth. He studied communications and sociology in the United States at California State University, graduating in 1998. It was during his last year at university that Saman first became interested in becoming a photographer, influenced by his studies in visual sociology, and the work of a number of photojournalists who had been covering the wars in the Balkans. Saman blends traditional conflict photography with a deeply personal point of view. For more than 10 years, he has been concerned with the humanitarian impact of war in the Middle East, documenting both the front line of daily suffering and the “fleeting moments on the periphery of the more dramatic events.” He has worked on many editorial commissions, including covers for Time magazine’s Person of the Year (2018), which featured several journalists who had been targeted for their work. For this prestigious assignment, Saman photographed 26 journalists during trips to seven countries, including Myanmar, Bangladesh, Russia, Germany and Mexico. Saman’s work has received awards from World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year and the Overseas Press Club, and his photographs have been shown in several exhibitions worldwide. In 2015, he was given the highly regarded Guggenheim Fellowship for his photojournalism project on the Arab Spring. In 2023, Saman was named a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and he published Glad Tidings of Benevolence, a book that combines photographs and disparate documentation and texts from his time as a photojournalist covering the US-led invasion and occupation of Iraq and the years following. Saman joined Magnum Photos in 2010 and became a full member in 2014. He is currently based in Amman, Jordan.
Daniel Wheeler
Daniel T Wheeler is a Photographer and Educator based in the Midlands. His work mainly springs from emotional relationships with people, the landscape and the history of areas in which he works. The necessity to socially engage with his subjects is at the root of his work. Often this means that Daniel will engrain himself within communities (Normanton, Firs Estate, In Transit) and develop a spiritual, historical and cultural understanding of the areas in which he makes pictures (Grangewood, Pilgrimage, Native Plants of Northern Cyprus). The tactile nature of his work radiates this approach and produces distinctive and emotive images. His work is exclusively made using analogue photographic materials and darkroom practices at his community darkroom and lab, The Photo Parlour, based in Nottingham. The Photo Parlour was set up in 2014 to provide space and facilities for film photographers to practice and learn darkroom techniques as well as network and support one another. In 2017 the facility expanded into an existing film processing lab in Nottingham and supports a broad demographic of photographers across the U.K and runs a membership as well as popular workshops and social events. The Photo Parlour is also home to Nottingham Centre for Photography and Social Engagement, which supports marginalised communities in the area with workshops and regular social events as well as a bi-annual photography festival across several established venues in Nottingham. This festival is called Off-Centre. This festival enables its organisers to showcase the work of photographers across Nottingham, regardless of their professional status and supports their practice before and after the event, ensuring that those who take part are encouraged, nurtured and supported.

George Johnson
George is a filmmaker who works across a variety of mediums, largely the documentary and commercial space, taking on projects with national and international brands. His true passion is to create work based around the everyday person. Showing life’s beauty through telling peoples tales and experiences.
Julien Alamo
Julien is a French entrepreneur with a background as a graphic designer, known for his expertise in image and digital solutions. He served as the Head of Digital Solutions for Picto Paris from 2010 to 2015, managing Picto Online, the French leading professional online Fine Art printing service. In 2015, Julien moved to New York to open and run Picto New York, continuing Picto’s DNA in producing Fine Art printing and framing for a demanding clientele, including galleries, artists, agencies, institutions, and museums. Combining a highly personalized service with cutting-edge technology, Julien and his team at Picto New York are dedicated to achieving the finest quality in Fine Art prints. In 2023, Julien opened a gallery space where he curates and produces exhibitions, organizes conferences, book launches, and projections to foster and expand the photography community.

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