Online Workshops - Building a Photographic Series

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Learn how to tell stories with your camera on our new 3-part RPS Documentary and Photographic Project Workshops, intended to provide expert practical guidance and support to produce meaningful documentary projects. Combining interactive demonstrations, live Q&As with photographers, pdf guides and exclusive access to a private RPS Documentary Facebook group - with RPS and professional photographer support - we’ll equip you with the tools you need. The courses are modular and contain many tools professionals use to set their work apart from the pack. They can be done in any order, will help you build your understanding and confidence about this genre.

Specifically, the three separate courses cover:

Starting Out - How to start building a photographic series, including where to find inspiration, define your intent, and decide if it’s a go/no go.

Execution - How to shoot the best story you can, including planning, ethics, staying motivated, tricks/tips, and knowing when to stop.

Finishing Up - How to complete your series, including editing, sequencing, showing your work, and getting feedback.

These courses have been built specifically for RPS members in 2020, and created from the ground up by Mark Phillips, RPS Documentary Chair, and Jon Cunningham, founder of award-winning photography education company, Creative Escapes. We are delighted to be working with Jon and his team, who bring extensive and professional teaching expertise to deliver this. We have now run a number of these successful workshops and for the near future these will continue to be held online. These cover the stages of any project - each reveals a tool kit of professional techniques to help you develop, shoot and complete your project. Each course is listed in our RPS Online Learning section on the RPS website. The price for each workshop is £56 for members (and £75 for non-members). Each course consists of 5 hours of instructor-led tuition and a 50 page guide to keep, plus free access to our closed Facebook page, where course participants can have ongoing feedback and support.

Please book each workshop via the links below:

Starting Out (getting started) - 28 November rps.org/events/groups/documentary/2020/november/documentary-online-workshop-1

Execution (working on your project) - 5 December rps.org/events/groups/documentary/2020/december/documentary-online-workshop-2

Finishing Up (editing and sequencing) - 12 December rps.org/events/groups/documentary/2020/december/documentary-online-workshop-3

Look out for more online workshops in early 2021. For more information contact Mark Phillips at doc@rps.org