Street Photography 2 – Faces of Berlin

About

The workshop “Faces of Berlin” will focus on street portraiture in Berlin. Beside theoretical and practical aspects related to the topic, students will learn how to approach people on the street and to gain access to them with their camera. Every student will create a personal portfolio of his street portraits guided individually during this process. The emphasis of this workshop is the visual transformation of the individual ideas and the process of editing, selecting and creating a personal approach related to the topic.

Course leader

This course is for you if you are curious about expounding your vision of portraiture through Berlin's possibilities, you wish to test and sharpen your skills as a street photographer, or you want to expand your portfolio with a specific street portraitur

Target group

Björn Steinz, born 1970 in Bad Homburg v.d.H./Germany, began his photographic career at a local newspaper close to Frankfurt am Main.
Having worked as a volunteer in refugee camps during the war in the former Yugoslavia and traveled in Latin America, he decided to study photography, earning Bachelor and Master of Arts Degrees at the Prague Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU). Since then his homebase is Prague in Czech Republic.

Course aim

You will learn how to approach people on the street and to gain access to them with their camera.

Fee info