LAURA BOUSHNAK and the ARAB WORLD
STORIES ABOUT MUSLIM COMMUNITIES IN BERLIN, 17 – 20 August 2015
This 4 days workshop will guide participants in the development of a reportage connected to one of the main foreign communities of Berlin.
Laura Boushnak has been focusing her work on the Arab world, especially on women and education issues.
Berlin hosts approximately 160,000 Muslim foreigners – about 9% of the city’s population. The majority are of Turkish background due to the settlement policies of the former West Germany at the beginning of the immigration wave in the 1960’s. The number of Muslims is especially high in Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg district, Mitte and Northern Neukölln district.
BIOGRAPHY
Laura Boushnak is a Kuwaiti-born Palestinian photographer. Her work ranges from conflict photography to pictorial storytelling.
After a nine-year wire service experience in AFP, Laura has been working as an independent photographer since 2008, devoting more time to her long-term personal projects with a special focus on Arab women and education. Her photographs have been published in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Washington Post, Le Monde, and many more.
Exhibitions include museums and galleries in New York, Mumbai, Thessaloniki, Beijing, Cairo, Noorderlecht, Dubai, Aleppo, Manama, Nicosia, London, Beirut, Oslo and Sarajevo.
In 2013 Laura was the overall winner of the Terry O’Neill Photography award in the UK and received an honorable mention at the UNICEF Photo Of The Year. She is the recipient of the Peace Media Award from the Peace x Peace organization in Washington, DC in 2011.
Her work “I Read I Write: Egypt – Illiteracy” series was acquired by the British Museum. Boushnak co-founded RAWIYA collective, which brings together the work and experience of female photographers from the Middle East. www.lauraboushnak.com
PROGRAM
MONDAY
| 09:30 – 11:00 | Master’s presentation (main work & project outcomes) | |||
| 11:00 – 13:30 | Each participant discusses the story to be developed during the workshop* | |||
| 14:00 – 00:00 | Shooting the assignment |
*He/she will present 10 photographs from his/her personal archive (prints or jpgs), exemplifying how the reportage will be developed: a sort of pre-visualization of the story.
TUESDAY
| 09:30 – 10:15 | Questions about the theme, solving difficult situations | |||
| 10:15 – 13:30 | Portfolio reviews (prints or digital files) | |||
| 14:00 – 00:00 | Shooting the assignment |
WEDNESDAY
| 09:30 – 13:00 | Editing and narrowing the focus of the narrative | |||
| 13:00 – 13:30 | Questions, advice | |||
| 14:00 – 00:00 | Shooting the assignment |
THURSDAY
| 09:30 – 12:30 | Final editing session. Review of all the work, discussions | |||
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Refining the editing for each participant and final tips | |||
INFO
Workshops will be held at GlogauAir, artistic space in the heart of Kreuzberg.
The use of digital equipment is encouraged as film would have to be developed for the next day.
COSTS
The participation fee for the workshop is 390,00 euro (VAT excluded).
This fee does not include travel or accommodation costs. For discount info click here.
APPLICATION
To apply for a workshop, please fill in the registration form, include a portfolio of 12 images plus a few lines of biography and send it to application@photo-berlin.org.
Please have a look here for more details and check out the Terms and Conditions page.
Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis.
The workshop is limited to 12 participants.
OTHER SUMMER 2015 EDITION WORKSHOPS
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| The Russian Berlin | New Berliners | Berlin’s nights | Narrative editing | ||||||||
| w/Mila Teshaieva | w/Laura Pannack | w/Alisa Resnik | w/Barbara Stauss | ||||||||
| Aug,17-20,afternoon | Aug,17-20,morning | Aug,17-20,afternoon | Aug,21 |
2012/2013 WORKSHOPS: STUDENTS’ GALLERIES
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| God’s people | Cinema Mundi | Pleasure Island | Vietnamese People | ||||||||
| w/Monika Bulaj | w/Stefano De Luigi | w/Jocelyn Bain Hogg | w/James Delano |