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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February

Canberra: Until 6 Sept 2026. Trent Parke’s photographic series The Christmas tree bucket 2006–09 is a tender and darkly humorous portrayal of his extended family coming together to celebrate Christmas.

March

Sydney: Until 7 Feb 2027. From his archive of more than 200,000 images, Close Up celebrates the historic moments and pivotal people he famously captured.

Melbourne: 5 March – 7 August 2026. Between the mid-1970s and early 1990s, artist and social documentary photographer Viva Gibb (1945-2017) documented the suburbs of North and West Melbourne, where she lived.

May

Sydney: Until 16 August 2026. 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.

Melbourne: Until March 2027. Rehearsing the City presents archival photographs from Victoria’s government collections, alongside new work by contemporary street photographers.

Coffs Harbour: 28 May – 29 June 2026. West Of Somewhere East is a photographic series tracing a cinematic journey through the interior of New South Wales, shaped by long drives, fleeting encounters, and the reflective rhythm of return.

June

Sydney: June 6 – 19 July 2026. The World Press Photo Exhibition 2026 is returning to the State Library of New South Wales from 6 June to 19 July, offering Sydney audiences an uncompromising view of of the unending challenges that humans, and our planet face.

Melbourne: 6 June – 20 August 2026. Brook Andrew is an artist whose conceptual practice shifts across photography, performance, moving image, installation, public space and research, often through deep collaboration with artists, communities and friends.

Melbourne: 6 June – 28 June 2-26. We Built a House Out of Water is a deeply personal body of work that draws on memory, family, and culture – while understanding healing as an ongoing process.

Melbourne: 26 June – 2 August. Through analogue photographic processes, Dylan Negri aims to immortalised fragments of life that would otherwise disintegrate.