Working The Streets: A Street Photography Primer (MON & TUE)
Asim Rafiqui | Processing - Beginner
Street photography can be the easiest, and yet also the most difficult and nerve-wrecking form of photography. Spend two days with Asim Rafiqui learning how to conduct yourself on the streets with a camera, and take your street photography to a new level. Asim will take students into the streets of Dubai and teach them the fundamentals of street work including how to deal with strangers, how to use zone focus, why a light meter is critical, framing and geometry, anticipating the light and more. Conducted entirely in the field, students will get a chance to immerse themselves into the street and food life of Dubai. The workshop is for beginners to intermediate photographers. All students are expected to know how to use their cameras. Only digital work will be discussed during the review sessions.
Type
2 day workshop
Monday, February, 13 12:00 PM - 9:15 PM
Tuesday, February, 14 6:00 AM - 2:00 PM
COST $495
This session is limited to 10 students only
You are familiar with general use of computers but no prior knowledge of this specific software is assumed. You would like to be introduced to what is possible with the basic use of this software and simple photo finishing techniques and tools as a starting point for a basic level of competency.
who should attend
You are familiar with general use of computers but no prior knowledge of this specific software is assumed. You would like to be introduced to what is possible with the basic use of this software and simple photo finishing techniques and tools as a starting point for a basic level of competency.
- Your DSLR or mirrorless camera with a fully charged battery
- Your lenses
- SD/CF card(s)
What you should bring
- Your DSLR or mirrorless camera with a fully charged battery
- Your lenses
- SD/CF card(s)
About the Instructor
Asim Rafiqui
Asim Rafiqui is an independent photojournalist whose work has appeared in Newsweek, Time, Harper`s, Stern, National Geographic (France) and many other publications. Asim has reported from Haiti, Japan, India, Pakistan, USA, Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, Sweden and Ukraine among other places.
Born and raised in Karachi, Pakistan, he moved to New York in 1984 to study engineering at Columbia University and has since lived, at various times, in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Lahore, London, Munich, Bangkok, Stockholm and Kigali.
He was the recipient of an Open Society Fellowship and has since 2012 been using a variety of media to present a more nuanced and personal perspective on the issue of access to justice in Pakistan. By focusing on the plight of some of Pakistan’s most marginalized communities, he highlights the structural roots of the pervasive injustice that afflicts their lives and the failure of the current legal apparatus to resolve them.
Previously, Asim was a Fulbright Fellow to India, where he worked on 'The Idea of India', a project that looked at India’s heritage of cultural and religious pluralism and syncretism. For this project he was also a recipient of an Aftermath Grant in 2009. Asim also received a Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting grant to document the impact of the Israeli closure of the Gaza Strip on its residents. In 2015 Asim received the Magnum EF Grant for his project titled 'Law & Disorder: A People's History of the Law In Pakistan'.
He authors the photography blog The Spinning Head
Monday, February, 13 12:00 PM - 9:15 PM
Tuesday, February, 14 6:00 AM - 2:00 PM
COST $495
This session is limited to 10 students only
Workshop Location
NOTE
On day 2 of this workshop you will be meeting the group on a definite location, which will communicated closer to the date. No transportation will be provided on this day.
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