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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November

Sydney: Until 11 April. Unfinished Business brings together the voices of 30 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people living with disabilities from remote, regional, and urban communities across Australia.

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.

Melbourne: 28 Nov 2025 – 26 May 2026. The exhibition celebrates the wide-ranging photographic practices of more than eighty women artists working between 1900 and 1975.

February

Melbourne: 11 Feb – 25 April 2026. Familial brings together six international artists whose work navigates the emotional and psychological terrain of family.

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.

Sydney: 03 March – 26 March 2026. NSW at Night is a photography exhibition offering a glimpse into life after dark across New South Wales, through the people, places and rhythms that shape it.

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.

Melbourne: 7 March – 24 May 2026. Photos of flowers from the NGA collection by prominent photographers drawn such as Robert Mapplethorpe and four groundbreaking Australian photographers.

Melbourne: 10 March – 5 May 2026. TOPshots is an annual celebration of emerging photo-media artists selected from a large pool of entries.

Melbourne: 13 – 22 March 2026. Award-winning photographers Andrew Tan and Rosalind Pach invite you to explore the city as a living, shifting experience.