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Peter van Agtmael, who just published his latest photobook Look at the U.S.A: A Diary of War and Home, will guide you on your project’s approach and the next steps. Over two days, you’ll dive deeply into the art of sequencing and editing, with hands-on exercises, group portfolio reviews, and personalized feedback to help you refine your visual narrative. This workshop is designed to empower you to present your work more effectively to industry professionals, and public audiences alike. This immersive and intimate group setting workshop invites photographers seeking to get a better understanding of the subjective process of editing and sequencing a body of work and how this can transform the way you see and approach your projects.
Editing is a hugely important and valuable process with different stages and uses. Not to be confused with post-processing your images with programs like Lightroom or Photoshop, editing is the process of looking deeply at the photographs you are making, to interrogate them with a critical eye, to review and reject the weak images, and to find something remarkable on the contact sheet or screen.
This workshop is open to 12 participants and is suitable for photographers with a substantial body of work seeking guidance in the final stages of their projects, as well as photographers embarking on new projects and in the research stage. Each participant will have the opportunity to gain a comprehensive understanding of the editing process for long-term projects and selecting the optimal format for their presentation.
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Biography: Peter van Agtmael was born in Washington, DC, in 1981. He was 20 years old and studying history at Yale on 9/11, an event that was pivotal in shaping his career. Shortly after graduating, he began documenting the United States at war and at home, which continues to be the anchor of his work. Van Agtmael is known for his deeply affecting, sometimes surreal images, which explore themes of conflict, history, memory, nationalism, militarism, race, and class. He has spent more than 15 years covering US wars from both sides and countless angles, from embedding with military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan to covering the civilian
cost of the wars. He has also extensively documented the Israel/Palestine conflict. Along with ongoing personal projects, Van Agtmael has photographed for many leading publications, including the New York Times Magazine, where his images have been featured on multiple front covers. His work is held at the International Center of Photography, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Deutsche Börse Photography Foundation, and Yale University Art Gallery.
Partner: Magnum Photos is an international photographic cooperative owned by its photographer-members, with offices in New York City, Paris, London and Tokyo. It was founded in 1947 in Paris by photographers Robert Capa, David „Chim“ Seymour, Maria Eisner, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, William Vandivert, and Rita Vandivert.
Magnum Learn provides opportunities to meet and learn from Magnum’s photographers across the globe. We welcome participation from those at the very start of their creative journey to those already working professionally in photography. Magnum Learn also works in collaboration with institutions worldwide to create unique educational programs for their audiences.
