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Weekend Workshop: Dynamic Composition for Visual Storytellers
In this 2-weekend workshop intensive, you'll refine and develop your composition skills, improve your photographic seeing, and learn to tell stronger stories. You'll be stimulated to develop a heightened sensitivity to your surroundings — no matter if it's an urban environment, in the country, or even if you're staying at home. During group critique we will analyze what works in an image — and what doesn’t. We'll discuss compositional tools, creative ways of storytelling, and effective editing, and also take a comparative look at historical and contemporary photographers. On the first weekend, students should schedule time in between the Saturday and Sunday sessions (depending on their own time zone) to go photograph and upload images for the Sunday class. In addition, assignments will be given to be completed from one weekend to the next.
Anja Hitzenberger is a photographer, filmmaker, consultant, and educator. She is the founder of StrudelmediaLive, an educational platform that offers live online photography classes and more to people around the world. Anja studied in the Creative Practice full-time program at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York City, and has been on the faculty there since 2009. She is dedicated to working with people from different cultures across the globe.
Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows, film festivals, and on theater stages throughout Europe, the United States, South America, and Asia. Her photography has been published internationally and is a part of both private and institutional collections, including the International Center of Photography. She has received numerous artistic grants and has been awarded residencies in Rome, Paris, Warsaw, Beijing, and Tainan (Taiwan). A focus of her activities has been working with live performance, including producing a multimedia piece that toured in New York City, Austria, and Korea.
Anja has been teaching live online photography classes since 2015, as well as in-person workshops at organizations in New York, Europe, China, and Taiwan, including C/O Berlin, Three Shadows (Beijing), and FJUM (Forum for Journalism and Media – Vienna). Originally from Salzburg, Austria, she divides her time between New York and Vienna.
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