Edinburgh • May 12 – 19, 2012
Workshop members will bring a selection of no more than 20 images, preferably in a form easily projected digitally, or possibly in print form, and the first step will be a critique and discussion of their work. This will be done with myself and the whole group. On the [...]

Tuscany 2012 • July 22 – 28
Who are you? What do you know to be true? What do you question? What are your obsessions? When I’m confronted with a person’s work, this is what intrigues me. Wether you work only with photography or combine it with text, video, music, this workshop will challenge you to [...]

Tuscany 2012 •  July 29 – August 04

With small practical exercises and exploring the different stapes of a personal research, Laurence Leblanc will push the students to discover their inner sensitivity. A sensitivity which has strength, fragility, which can be intensified with picture or on the contrary rejected.
The goal is to go beyond the surface [...]

Tuscany 2012 •  July 29 – August 4
Shooting nudes and capturing beauty is more than taking a beautiful picture of a person. It is reaching inside that person to capture their essence. In doing so you must combine that with the right light, and the correct ambience.
In this workshop will work on everything it takes [...]

Cortona, 22 Luglio 2011
In questo incontro vedremo come prepararsi adeguatamente alla fotografia di viaggio, sfruttando al meglio tutto quanto ci offre la tecnologia digitale. Parleremo di quali attrezzature usare, quali computer sono i più adatti alla vita da globe-trotter, capiremo quali sono i software più adatti a gestire velocemente e soprattutto efficacemente il workflow fuori [...]

Toscana, 22-23 Luglio  2011

Strutturato in due incontri di 5 ore ciascuno, sabato e domenica, per 20 partecipanti. Il primo sarà un’esercitazione sul campo, preceduta da un’introduzione sul reportage di viaggio con distribuzione di due decaloghi (10 regole per scrivere e 10 per fotografare in viaggio). Il secondo sarà dedicato alla [...]

Bangkok • March 03-10, 2012

The word photography means so many different things depending on time, the social situation, the public and specially who is behind the camera. [...]

Tuscany 2012 •  July 24 – 28

The workshop will address the issues of contemporary documentary photographic practice and approaches, taking a deeper look at the long-term project in photography. The aim is to build up an understanding of different forms of narratives and different ways of structuring work according to the final mode of presentation, [...]

Tuscany 2012 •  July 29 / August 4
Memorable images of the landscape are created from a delightful and precious dance between what you see, how you think, and what you feel.
“A Natural Eye” strives to develop your eye first, and then bring the technical skills of photography to it. The workshop is designed to [...]

Tuscany 2012 •  July 29/ August 4

With the class, I will attempt to open up the students mind in the many varied photographic styles from past and present. Will explore and  discover some kind of distinct style in their own  work.   With way’s to expand on that vision to help separate them [...]

Tuscany 2011 •  July 31 / August 6
Absolute visions, outside of space and time. The search for the sublime dimension where Form, Essence, and Beauty flow with clean, perfect, and indefinite borders. A search where the final point of arrival is unknown since it is not a landing place to [...]

Tuscany 2010 – Anghiari, June 20-26
This workshop is dedicated to those who are approaching digital photography for the first time and want to start on “the right foot”, and also to those who already work in digital and would like to have a more complete vision of the possibilities offered by this medium.
The workshop will [...]

Sicily 2012 •  June  9-16
In 2012 we will offer two workshops with Settimio Benedusi
This one, in Sicily, on HOW to shoot a professional beauty assignment
The second, in Tuscany, on WHY take photographs
Two different paths, with different goals but both born with same idea: to help you become a better photographer, from a technical and aesthetic [...]

Tuscany 2010 – Anghiari, June 20/26
A full immersion in the digital photography world, analyzing and improving every aspect of technology, ranging from the proper way of shooting raw to the proper way of displaying images, from advanced raw develop to final print process.

We will se:
Raw: diving in the deepest core, and how to get [...]

Tuscany 2012 •  July 22-28
Tuscany, a place of great beauty,  has become over photographed, and everyone now recognizes its symbols of cypress tree, sunflowers, olives, and hilltop towns.    How do you photograph this cliché ridden area in a new way? How do you see through the compendium of Tuscan images to find your own unique [...]

Tuscany 2012 •  July 22-28
What makes a creative work individual, unique, stylized and personal?  What makes a photograph reflect deeper meanings than the surface of the print?  What separates the great image-makers from the average?  What is in an image that makes that image have a life of it’s own?
I believe what makes an image [...]

Tuscany 2010 – S.Anna in Camprena, July 18-24
The prerequisite for this workshop will be a well-conceived photographic project which is currently in process with about 50% of the images realized, to which the student is committed, and where the student will benefit from work on editing, sequencing and contextualizing–in terms of text and other concerns– [...]

Tuscany 2011 •  July 24/30

This workshop will be about photographing a precise area, interpreting, with our photographs, the essence of a place and its people.
We will move from village to village, between Val di Chiana and Val d’Orcia, stopping at cafés, gas stations, farms, spas, getting to know the people who live there, listening [...]

Tuscany 2011 •  July 24/30
Photojournalism is not about the amount of cameras you carry, neither is it about appearance – Photojournalism is about Empathy and have something on your mind which has to be told.
During the workshop I will explain how to reduce the “noise” in your head – narrow your story down and make [...]

Tuscany 2010 – S.Anna in Camprena, July 18-24
The workshop will concentrate on a very personal approach to photography. The “students”
will be asked to within themselves find the story, the core of what they are showing in their photographs. The workshop will be totally focused on content and not on technique.
Its also in the concept of [...]

Tuscany 2012 •  July 22 -28

It will not be a workshop on traditional portrait. Antonin will show how, even in the difficult art of portraiture, is possible to show one personal and unique style and interpretation. His photographs of people – celebrities or common people – have made him world famous.
You will have to be [...]

Tuscany 2011 •  July 31 / August 6
The digital age is giving documentary photographers extraordinary new ways to create and organize your photographic projects. This one week workshop will show how to use the new digital workflow to extend the ability of the visual storyteller. The instructor will share examples of his personal projects [...]

Tuscany 2010 – Anghiari, June 20/26 · June 27/July 3
With the growing number of digital media devices, we can now all easily record and share our memories, moments and passions with the world.
This course will provide the basic knowledge needed to import still images, video files, audio files, and add titles and text to [...]

Tuscany 2012 •  July 22 -28

As all these mysteries are beyond us, we could feign to be the organizers, wrote Jean Cocteau.
It is a wonderful sentence to describe the mystery of Photography.
If a photograph is initially taken to show or reveal something, for me it is much more interesting when it suggests something, a feeling [...]

Tuscany 2012 •  July 29 -August 4

What happens inside your mind can happen inside a camera.
It was the line that I wrote back in the 1970s as an advertising copywriter that convinced me to put down the pen and pick up the camera. In this workshop we will strive to expand the concept of seeing [...]

Tuscany 2012  •  July 22 – 28

The photographic profession is a balanced combination between creativity, craft and commercial stratedy. Making a reportage cannot be pure artistic exercise, but must take into consideration the needs of the person who will have to publish the final work. The visual language, the making and diffusion of the images [...]

Tuscany 2011 •  July 31 / August 6
This workshop is open to both professional and emerging photographers: its goal is to provide the participants with the main tools for exploring the infinite expressive possibilities of the photographic media. Each good picture captures a unique and unrepeatable instant and represents an encounter, fleeting yet perfect, [...]

Tuscany 2010 – Sant’Anna in Camprena, July 18-24
Sometimes travelling and photographing are enemies because the need to take pictures may prevail on the pleasure of travel. But photography and travel – two forms of research and self-expression – can coexist and ran in parallel, if one takes the time to observe before photographing. Travelling may [...]

Tuscany 2012 •  July 29 – August 4

Our first stories were spoken. Soon we learned to write, and then we learned to create visual stories by making photographs. Now technology has closed the circle, allowing us to easily add the power of sound and voices combined with text, images and motion to create more powerful [...]

Tuscany 2010 – S.Anna in Camprena, July 25-31
Are you having fun? I am always asking myself this because ultimately, that is why I got into photography. The idea that photography could be used as a way to communicate and earn a living came later, as my relationship with it deepened.
It is necessary to think creatively [...]

Tuscany 2012  •  July 22 – 28

The photojournalist is a storyteller that comes and goes in the lives and destinies of man. The documentary process – to grasp, understand, and decipher the heart of the subject – is the main question to which the photographer is the element of response. Time is of the [...]

This workshop will explore the unspoken language and emotional connection between the photographer, subject, and environment. We will navigate through the intimate and at times intense process of creating a successful portrait, with emphasis on photographing people in their personal environments, in and around their home or workplace. Students will learn how to overcome the challenges of establishing an intimate connection with their subject in a relatively short period of time. We will also discuss the differences in approaches when photographing for an editorial client or working on a personal project. Through group and individual assignments, slide presentations, and critiques, students will gain confidence and develop a sound basis for further exploration.

Tuscany 2012 •  July 22 – 28

I like to consider my own work to be something close to storytelling although it doesn’t always follow a conventional narrative structure.
It is sometimes political, sometimes personal, and sometimes both.
Broadly speaking, the work is based in the real, although I want to embrace the idea of fiction within this [...]