Description

Are you about to embark on a personal photographic project and would like to review your ideas and approach with an expert? Do you have a long term project that you need help editing and sequencing? Are you a mid-career photographer struggling to figure out your photographic vision or where you are going next with your career?

This online portfolio review will help photographers identify their next step — from finding your photographic voice, to the process of discovering and making a long-term project that you’re passionate about, to practical advice on getting your work seen by the right people.

Each Magnum photographer will see 10 photographers only during this two-day event. Places will be allocated based on your application. Applications are free. The deadline for applications is May 10th. Applicants will receive an answer to their application by May 11th, 2020. The price of the online portfolio review is $350 (incl. tax) to be paid on acceptance of the application. The offer includes a “Preparing for a Portfolio Review” presentation, a 60 minutes one-to-one online portfolio review and a free trial of Alec Soth: Photographic Storytelling online course. We will do our best to accommodate your timezone and schedule.

This 60-minute online portfolio review offers:

  • Guidance on technical, ethical, theoretical and aesthetic issues
  • Ideas Development
  • Editing and Sequencing
  • Workflow
  • Output and presentation
  • Professional Practice
  • Online Networking

I would be most helpful to those who are trying to find a voice as a storyteller and are interested in having that work evolve into bookmaking.

David Alan Harvey

About your reviewer

David Alan Harvey’s photography combines a direct documentary style and emotional mood with his own powerful, personal vision. He has shot more than 40 assignments for National Geographic and has covered stories around the world, including projects on French teenagers, the Berlin Wall, Maya culture, Vietnam, Native Americans, Mexico, Naples and Nairobi.   Born in San Francisco, Harvey was raised in Virginia. In 1956 he discovered photography aged 11 when he purchased a used Leica with savings from his newspaper route and began photographing his family and neighborhood. When he was 20 he made his first photo essay, Tell it Like it Is, which explored the lives of one black family living in Virginia during the upheaval of the Civil Rights Movement. The work was published in 1967 in a staple-bound book priced at $2, that aimed to raise money for the family. It was re-published as a monograph in 2015. The project was an early example of Harvey’s talent for establishing a strong rapport with his subjects regardless of race or language.

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