Screen LAB Express workshop

Screen LAB Express is a workshop for visual storytellers, photojournalists and documentary photographers. It is produced and hosted by Screen Projects, a US-based experimental production company for visual storytelling projects.

© Adam Ferguson
© Adam Ferguson

The two-day intensive has been designed specifically for photographers and visual journalists who want to make work that can be experienced beyond traditional editorial platforms, and build their personal brand as a visual storyteller through signature personal narratives.

Hosted at RMIT University in Melbourne, participants will hear from producers, editors, and creators of innovative transmedia projects and discuss the realities of making and sustaining long-form visual narratives across platforms and markets including film, broadcast, art, performance and online.

Screen Co-Founder, transmedia producer, and curator, Liza Faktor (USA) and guest expert, photojournalist Adam Ferguson (AUS) will be joined online by photographer and filmmaker Zackary Canepari (USA), and guest speakers based in Australia.

© Adam Ferguson
© Adam Ferguson

The workshop is suitable for practicing photographers, visual journalists, advanced graduate, and post-graduate students.

Further information about Screen Lab, costs and registration: www.screenprojects.org/screenlab/
Please book by 25 February to secure your spot.

Screen Lab Express is produced by Screen in partnership with RMIT University’s School of Media and Communication and School of Art, Melbourne, Australia.

If you're a documentary photographer trying to get the most out of exisiting markets, then this feature article by Liza Faktor – Screen Co-Founder, transmedia producer, and curator, is a must-read.

About Screen

Screen is a US-based experimental visual storytelling production company that explores the potential of cross-platform narratives. We produce projects across media, film, art and performance platforms to inform diverse audiences about the human condition. Our work ranges from exhibitions and cultural events, to short films, video installations, community engagement projects and immersive transmedia narratives.

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March

Melbourne: 1 March – 25 May 2025. Featuring the work of approximately 60 artists, The Basement brings to light rare vintage prints from the 1960s – 1980s, from students and teachers of the College’s Diploma of Art & Design (Photography).

April

Canberra: 27 Feb until 20 July 2025. The National Library has invited renowned Australian photojournalist Mike Bowers to select some of his favourite images from the Fairfax Photo Archive.

Brisbane: Until 13 July 2025. Amateur Brisbane photographer Alfred Henrie Elliott (1870-1954) extraordinary images lay dormant for decades until they were discovered only recently. This exhibition is curated by seven Brisbane photographers.

Perth: Until 18 May 2025. Henry Roy – Impossible Island draws on 40-years of recollections and observations as it brings together 113 photos taken from 1983 to 2023.

Sydney: Until 31 Dec 2025. PIX, Australia’s first pictorial news weekly, is brought to life in this exhibition, showcasing its archived images and stories for the very first time.

Sydney: Until 30 June. The photographs in Max Dupain: Student Life were taken at the University of Sydney in the early 1950s, a period of rapid change marked by the politics of the Cold War.

Sydney: Until 15 May. Scott Perkins new series of expertly crafted landscape photographs and light boxes are located within photography and sculpture disciplines.

May

Melbourne: Until 25 May. An exhibition of the mature and recent work of photographer / artists who trained at the ground-breaking Prahran CAE, Melbourne in the 1970s and '80s.

Sydney: 15 May – 19 October. Showcasing 100 incredible images, this remarkable exhibition offers a window into the astonishing variety of life on our planet – and the critical importance of preserving it.

Melbourne: One off event on Sunday 25 May. Photography Studies College (PSC) is calling artists, photographers, designers and technologists to be part of AI Symposium 2025 Beyond the Lens – unpacking the creative and cultural impacts of AI.