Make It Personal (workshop)
Melbourne-based documentary photographers Alana Holmberg (Oculi) and Morganna Magee (MAPgroup) are teaming up to host a unique visual storytelling workshop for ten participants in Melbourne this February and March.
About the workshop
Over a seven-week period, Make It Personal participants will hone skills in conceptualising, making and editing documentary narratives that employ personal, intimate and emotive storytelling techniques and approaches.
In four workshop sessions participants will learn:
- Documentary narrative storytelling approaches.
- Access, trust, ethics and relationships in making stories about people.
- Editing and sequencing photographic projects for exhibition.
Participants will also look broadly at contemporary documentary photography as a genre, drawing inspiration from some of today’s most innovative storytellers. Guest speakers will be arranged as well as a class visit to the Asia-Pacific Photobook Archive.
Participant’s stories will be exhibited at the conclusion of the workshop at a one-night celebratory show.
Who’s it for?
The workshop is open for photographers at the start of their career, photography students, or advanced enthusiasts. It is suitable for photographers who want to challenge themselves to make a new body of work about a person or human-interest subject.
Dates
- Workshop dates: 5, 11 & 25 February (9am – 5pm) + 16 March (5pm – 10pm)
- Exhibition: 24 March (6pm – 9pm)
Applications close 5pm, 20 January 2017.
For further information including cost, scholarship opportunities and application details, visit www.makeitpersonalworkshop.com or email makeitpersonalworkshop@gmail.com
About the facilitators
Morganna Magee
Morganna Magee is an Australian social documentary photographer based in Melbourne who believes everyone has a story worth telling. Her images have appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, Vice, The Age, The Big Issue, The Weekend Australian magazine, Art and Australia magazine, Wooden toy Quarterly, Lostateminor, and Black and White Magazine.
She has photographed major commissions for Wintringham Specialist aged care, the Shire of Murrundindi, Victoria Police, the Mission for Seafarers, and Ronald McDonald House, among others. Magee lectures in Photo Imaging at Swinburne University of Technology.
Her awards include: Finalist in the Maggie Diaz prize, Finalist in the National Portrait Prize 2013, Finalist 2012, 2016 Head On Portrait Prize, Second Place – children’s portrait category International Photography Awards (Lucies), Honourable mention 6th Black and White Spider Awards, Px3 Official Selection for 2011 Prix de la Photographie Paris, Commendation Sony World Photography awards, Honourable mention International Photography Awards New York, Finalist Eureka Science Prize , ‘25 under 25’ Noise + Art and Australia, Black and White Magazine’s ‘Photo +Art’. She has been a member of the Many Australian Photographers (MAP) group since 2009.
www.mnmphotography.com.au
Alana Holmberg
Alana Holmberg is a documentary photographer, writer, and occasional filmmaker based in Melbourne. Interested in the intersection of new media, the Internet and multimedia storytelling meets, Holmberg experiments with new ways to engage audiences and forge empathy through her photography projects. In her freelance assignments, she works with local and international NGO and non-profit organisations to create contemporary multimedia content and experiences.
To date, her personal work has explored the experiences of women in relation to family, body image, technology, and feminism. Holmberg is the recipient of the 2016 Pool Grant, and member of Australian-based photography collective, Oculi. She is a finalist in the National Photographic Portrait Prize 2017.
