Truth With A Camera is holding its next workshop in Washington D.C. November 10-17. This intense, week-long workshop will be held in conjunction with FotoWeek DC.
The Truth With A Camera workshop teaches photographers to use their cameras to tell intimate and powerful stories while partnering with local nonprofits and NGOs. The workshop provides a unique educational environment that simultaneously pushes photographers to explore their visual storytelling potential while working with a nonprofit and its clients to accurately and compassionately tell stories that explain the struggles and hopes of the people whom they will photograph.
During the week, photographers receive daily critique by photojournalism coaches who have long histories creating documentaries on social change. Nightly presentations by prize-winning photojournalists and NGO representatives will discuss how photojournalism and the nonprofit world are coming together to produce valuable and powerful work.
At the end of the workshop, at a gallery show of the week’s work, photographers share their work with the participating organizations who are taught how to best use the documentary stories to promote change. Nonprofits and NGOs benefit by having a new library of fully licensed images that have the power to motivate people to action and students realize that they can have a powerful voice if they speak in the photographic language.
Workshop Details
Dates: November 10-17, 2012
Location: Sitar Arts Center, Washington D.C.
Registration deadline: November 1, 2012
Learn more and register: truthwithacamera.org/washington/
Coaches and Speakers
Lynn Johnson, National Geographic photographer
Karen Kasmauski, National Geographic photographer
Michael Williamson, Pulitzer Prize, The Washington Post
Ross Taylor, 2011 Photographer of the Year, The Virginian-Pilot
Matt Eich, documentary photographer
Lawrence Jackson, White House photographer
Glen O’Gilvie, CEO for the Center for Nonprofit Advancement
Maurice Jones, Deputy Secretary of HUD
Ron Londen and Phil De Jong, Journey Group
Chris Tyree, Journey Group
Dave Ellis, Director of Photography, The Free Lance-Star
About Truth With A Camera
The Truth With a Camera Workshop was founded in 1994 by Dr. Vme Edom Smith, who brought together leading photojournalism instructors and photojournalists for a week of shooting and editing. Since then, the workshop has been held in the U.S., Mexico, Ecuador and Bosnia.
The Truth With A Camera workshop works in conjunction with FOTODC and with support from the Center for Nonprofit Advancement.
For more information contact info@truthwithacamera.org or 757-406-3478.