The Foundry Photo Workshop for Emerging Photojournalists is being held June 16 – 21, 2008 in Mexico City. Its six intensive days of classes, fieldwork, panel discussions, slideshows, portfolio reviews, multimedia creation, parties, networking and more. This workshop is geared specifically for students and others who normally couldn’t afford such instruction from such accomplished photographers; it is completely non profit, and all instructors are volunteering their time and talents to teach the workshop. Our list of instructors is world class and is not finalized-we are adding more monthly. Instructors & participants include:
Lynsey Addario
Kael Alford
Jon Anderson
Samantha Appleton – NOOR
Andrea Bruce – Washington Post
Mike Robinson Chavez – LA Times
Stanley Greene – NOOR
Ron Haviv- VII
Hugo Infante
Kadir van Lohuizen – NOOR
Scott McKiernan – ZUMA Press
Tomas Munita
Tewfic el Sawy
Brian Storm – MediaStorm
Ami Vitale
Holly Wilmeth
Adriana Zehbrauskas – NY Times
Generous sponsors include Digital Railroad, PDN, ZUMA Press, NOOR, Lightstalkers, Lowepro, MediaStorm, Daylight magazine, Livebooks, fotovision and others.
Tuition for the workshop is only $500 if paid before April 15, 2008 (this includes all of the events mentioned above; it does not include lodging, transport, or food.) Scholarships for economic need, emerging talent and for Lightstalkers members are available. Please see www.foundryphotoworkshop.org for more details or contact: ericbeecroft1@hotmail.com