How To Edit Everything: From Portfolios to Competitions to Books
NATALIE KEYSSAR + DANIELLA ZALCMAN
WORKSHOP FEE: $200
LOCATION: VIRTUAL!
DATES: AUGUST 12-13, 2023
In this intensive two-day virtual workshop, photojournalists Natalie Keyssar & Daniella Zalcman will walk you through the best practices, philosophies, and strategies for editing your photos for different formats and objectives. Using real projects from our participants (we’ll edit about 8-10 students’ work live!) and our own assignment work we will take a deep dive into editing documentary photography for websites, portfolio reviews, grant applications, assignments, competitions, and books. We will share our methods for selecting and sequencing in a way that emphasizes story, ethics, and aesthetics and why different outputs require different approaches. There will also be a special guest photo editor present for feedback and Q&A!
We’ll pack August 12th and 13th from 10am - 6pm EST (New York) full of programming that will include talks, breakout sessions, and opportunities for tailored feedback and Q&A. As with all of our workshops, our ethos is radical transparency, collaboration and community building with our students, to create an inclusive place where we're all learning from each other and where we're able to share the lessons we learned the hard way in our combined 30+ years of experience in the industry.
If you’re interested in joining us, please fill out the application form below and submit payment if you aren’t requesting a scholarship! If you'd like your work to be considered for one of our live editing sessions during the workshop, please submit a link to a single project (on your website, Dropbox, or Google Drive) following the instructions below. Not all student work will be edited due to time constraints, but we will be picking roughly eight to ten projects to work through together.
You can reach us with any questions at dani@dan.iella.net or nkeyssar@gmail.com.
Note: We’re both committed to building a more radically transparent and inclusive photo industry. For every 5 people who sign up for our workshop, we’ll make one space available for free. Please indicate in the signup form below if you’d like to be considered for one of the free spaces, and we will reach out to everyone who registers by early August to let you know if we have space for you.
CANCELLATION POLICY: We understand that plans change and last-minute work and opportunities come up. If you need to cancel your registration more than one week before the start of the workshop, we will either postpone your enrollment to the next time we offer the workshop or refund the workshop fee. We will not be able to issue refunds less than a week before the start of the workshop.
ABOUT NATALIE & DANIELLA
Natalie Keyssar is a documentary photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. She is interested in class inequality, youth culture, and the personal effects of political turmoil and violence, primarily in the US and Latin America. Keyssar regularly contributes to The New York Times Magazine, TIME, Bloomberg Businessweek, and California Sunday Magazine, and has been recognized by the Philip Jones Griffith Award, The Aaron Siskind Foundation, PDN 30, Magenta Flash Forward, and American Photography. She has taught New Media at the International Center of Photography in New York and has instructed at workshops across the US and Latin America with Foundry, Women Photograph, The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the IWMF, and the International Photography Festival of Puebla, Mexico. She is a Pulitzer Center Grantee, a long-term fellow with the International Women’s Media Foundation Latin America program, the winner of the 2018 ICP Infinity Emerging Photographer Award and the 2019 PH Museum Women Photographer's Grant.
Daniella Zalcman is a Vietnamese-American documentary photographer based in New Orleans, Louisiana. She is a multiple grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a fellow with the International Women's Media Foundation, a National Geographic Society grantee, and the founder of Women Photograph, a non-profit working to elevate the voices of women and non-binary visual journalists. Her work tends to focus on the legacies of western colonization, from the rise of homophobia in East Africa to the forced assimilation education of Indigenous children in North America. Her ongoing project, Signs of Your Identity, is the recipient of the Arnold Newman Prize, a Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award, the FotoEvidence Book Award, the Magnum Foundation's Inge Morath Award, and part of Open Society Foundation's Moving Walls 24. Daniella is a visiting professor at Wake Forest University, and a member of the board of trustees of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund and the board of directors of the ACOS Alliance.