An all girls group of Young Communist League members walks past a statue of Chairman Mao Zedong in front of the Yan'an Revolutionary Memorial Hall in Yan'an, China on Nov. 7, 2009. Yan'an is promoted as the "Revolutionary Holy Land" and offers a number of museums, monuments and other "Red Tourism" sites supported by the Chinese government.

Visual Storytelling with VII Photo Agency

All At Once, Photography Workshop with VII photographers

In March of 2018, VII photographers will convene in Barcelona, Spain for their annual meeting. On this occasion, from March 26-28, 2018, the Agency will hold a 3-day photography workshop with Eyes in Progress at the Catalan Civic Center Casa Golferichs in the heart of Barcelona, Spain.

This will be the second edition of this event which took place in 2016 and gathered 40 international and local students. In 2018, the workshop will be open to 60 participants.

Check out the detailed program HERE.

GOAL

Learn and improve how to build a documentary reportage by covering an editorial story. To refine storytelling and story composition by analyzing real-situation problems, images analysis, editing and captions writing. Most of all, this workshop will help you discover your own visual language as well as practical and conceptual know how to confront real situation reportage making. This workshop will also focus on how to gain a new perspective on one’s works and attitude.

BIOGRAPHY

VII was created in 2001 by seven of the world’s leading photojournalists and by 2005 VII was listed in third position in American Photo’s “100 Most Important People in Photography.” VII now represents 28 of the world’s preeminent photojournalists whose careers span 35 years of world history.

Program

As soon as you've completed your application form, you can book your editing sessions and one-on-one.

During those three days, there will be:

Seminars
Each VII photographer will talk about a specific theme around photojournalism and narrative photography.

Editing sessions
The VII photographer works with groups of three to four people (maximum) on the editing and sequencing of one or several given photographic series (projected on screen or prints laid on a table).

Previous Workshops

Cheerleaders 2016
Mar 26 - Mar 28, 2018
3 days in Barcelona - 990 €
Early Bird 900 €
before Jan. 25th
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- The 990€ fee does not include transport, accommodation nor on the ground expenses. For participants coming from outside the European Union, please be aware that there is a bank fee when making the payments via bank transfer.

- In order to confirm your application, an advance payment of €100 is required. Once the application is completed, we will send an email via PayZen to the participant in order to settle the payment.

- If the applicant cancels his application before February 25th, we will fully refund the 100€ booking fee, if he decides to cancel after February 25th, it will not be refunded.

- The rest of the fee must be paid by the first day of the workshop at the latest. The participant will then receive a receipt.

- Participants will be expected to arrive comfortable with their equipment and ready to photograph.

- Participants working digitally should bring their own laptops, and everything needed for digital editing.

- Participants are required to find their own accommodation in Barcelona.

- Projectors and screens

Technical assistants will be present during the workshop.

- Each participant will be awarded a certificate of completion of the course.

- The participants will be required to evaluate the course when it has been completed, to show their level of overall satisfaction and the extent of their acquisition of new skills. These evaluations will help us to improve our courses.

Applications will be open until February 25th 2018. March 23rd!

- In the event of a cancellation, students will be given at least 3 weeks advance notice. Eyes in Progress reserves the right to change or alter the program advertised.

- If a participant decides to cancel for whatever reason, this must be confirmed in writing:

. Eyes in Progress will reimburse all the registration costs except for the €100 administrative fee, if the participant informs Eyes in Progress of cancellation at least 3 weeks before the first day of the workshop. Beyond this time limit, Eyes in Progress will charge the following:

. 50% of the cost if cancelled between 6 and 20 days before the workshop commences.

. 100% of the cost if cancelled less than 5 days before the workshop commences.

. All workshops that are commenced but not completed through the fault of the participant need to be paid in full.

- Eyes in Progress is not responsible for reimbursement of travel expenses in case a workshop is cancelled. We recommend that you buy refundable air tickets and/or travel insurance.

Eyes in Progress is committed to using all possible means to enable beneficiaries with disabilities to participate in the workshops. For this, the director of Eyes in Progress will assess all required adaptations and implement them.