LONG-TERM PROJECT (VIRTUAL) WORKSHOP
NATALIE KEYSSAR + DANIELLA ZALCMAN
WORKSHOP FEE: $900
ON HIATUS FOR 2023
DATES: October 9, 23, November 6, 20, December 4, 2022
During five intensive virtual sessions over a two month period, Daniella Zalcman and Natalie Keyssar will guide students through the development and completion of a long-term documentary photography project. We will walk selected participants through our own processes and help guide them to find theirs, from choosing a topic, to contacting communities and building relationships, to honing visual style, to pitching, grant writing, and budgeting. Students may work on new or in-progress projects.
Students will receive in-depth critiques and mentorship as they develop a body of work throughout the workshop, culminating in final presentations aimed to give real-time experience and build confidence for pitching and portfolio reviews. We will focus not just on the “how” of storytelling, such as sequencing, research, and technical skills, but also the “why,” with an emphasis on ethics, collaborative practice, and finding the best ways to share and speak about your work.
We hope to continue our educational philosophy of radical transparency to help early career documentary photographers demystify both creative and business aspects of the industry, and create a community where students can apply our discussions in class over time, and develop independent projects with personalized guidance.
Workshop dates will feature 3x 8-hour full day sessions and 2x 4-hour half day sessions on these Sundays:
October 9
October 23
November 6
November 20
December 4
There will also be structured opportunities for students to meet with each other outside of scheduled class times.
Applications are open now through September 15 and accepted students will be notified shortly after. We will keep the class size intimate and prioritize individual attention for participants. Two scholarships are available for students who do not have the resources to pay for a spot. If you would like to apply for a scholarship, please do so by indicating below. Please do not apply for a scholarship unless you have financial need — these spaces are meant to be reserved for students who could not otherwise participate, with preference given to photographers from historically marginalized communities. Once students are notified, you’ll have two weeks to pay the registration fee to hold your spot, or we will reach out to someone on our waitlist.
You can reach us with any questions at dani@dan.iella.net or nkeyssar@gmail.com.
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 between Paris and New York. 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.