Over a peri­od of nine months this inter­dis­ci­pli­nary sem­i­nar will be led by instruc­tors Dr. Paul Lowe and Ziyah Gafic and will be com­ple­ment­ed with a series of ses­sions by lead­ing jour­nal­ists, design­ers, writ­ers, edi­tors and pho­tog­ra­phers.

During the sem­i­nar, you’ll explore how to devel­op a last­ing career in visu­al sto­ry telling, includ­ing con­ceiv­ing, research­ing and plan­ning sto­ry ideas. You’ll be exposed to con­fronting eth­i­cal and moral chal­lenges as you nav­i­gate the moral maze of doc­u­ment­ing the lives of oth­ers. Developing a suc­cess­ful long-term busi­ness prac­tice is one of the pri­or­i­ties of the Sarajevo Seminar for Narrative and Documentary Practice, so that by the end, you’ll thrive as a suc­cess­ful prac­ti­tion­er in ever-shifting media land­scape.

You’ll also learn when and how to include ver­bal and text-based sto­ry­telling and mul­ti­me­dia as part of your visu­al work. Problem-solving pho­to assign­ments will help you to unlock ways to work intu­itive­ly, intel­lec­tu­al­ly  and emo­tion­al­ly, so that your pho­tog­ra­phy becomes more instinc­tive, pow­er­ful and sub­tle.

Expect a trans­for­ma­tive expe­ri­ence, where your cur­rent way of work­ing will be chal­lenged and refined through a series of one-on-one ses­sions, group ses­sions, and online live webi­nar lec­tures cul­mi­nat­ing with a group exhi­bi­tion.