The Application for the Advanced Mentored Studies Program: Visual Storytelling & Documentary Photography Projects
iPortfolio Review Required.
To Submit your Portfolio/Application: andersonranch.slideroom.com
The Application Deadline is March 6, 2019 and must be submitted using our online application form via Andersonranch.Slideroom.com. All applications will be reviewed by program faculty. Notifications to applicants/recipients will be made by March 22, 2019. *Tuition is $1700 per year for 3 years.
Future Dates:
August 24 – 28, 2020
August 23 – 27, 2021
The digital age has given documentary photographers and photojournalists new ways to tell stories with greater authorship and control. This workshop focuses on how to create a personal documentary project and get it seen. The ultimate goal is to find a subject that speaks to a personal passion, document it in a unique visual style, then disseminate the work. New technologies to be more effective storytellers are used, including social media, transmedia, virtual reality and digital video.
Media & Techniques:
Students learn through presentations, discussions, critiques and editing of work.
Activities:
Each morning begins with a presentation about documentary photography and contemporary practices. Students participate in editing and review sessions, group reviews of each student’s portfolio/essays, one-on-one sessions with faculty to discuss personal projects and dialog about building careers or the promotion and publishing of work.
Faculty:
Ed Kashi is a photojournalist, filmmaker and educator whose sensitive eye and intimate relationship to his subjects are signatures of his work. He is a member of the VII Photo Agency. Through his photography, filmmaking and work as a mentor, teacher and lecturer, Ed is a leading voice in the photojournalism and visual storytelling community.
www.edkashi.com
James Estrin is a staff photographer for The New York Times. He is a founder of Lens, The New York Times’s photography blog, and has been its co-editor since it launched in 2009. He has worked for The New York Timessince 1992 and was part of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team in 2001. James is a co-producer of the HBO film “Under Fire: The Untold Story of Pfc. Tony Vaccaro”.
www.lens.blogs.nytimes.com
More information about the AMS program here: https://www.andersonranch.org/workshops-at-the-ranch/advanced-mentored-studies/
