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Review: No Man’s Land: A Workshop for Women

Written on September 23, 2019, post­ed in Review, Sarajevo

May 9 – 11, 2019,
Instructors: Nichole Sobecki, Linda Bournane Engelberth, Sara Terry

In this spe­cial work­shop that took place dur­ing “VII in Sarajevo: Festival of the Image”, Sara Terry, Nichole Sobecki and Linda Bournane Engelberth worked with twenty-one women pho­tog­ra­phers to ele­vate their work to the next lev­el by high­light­ing women’s unique per­spec­tives. Spanning three days and aimed at com­mit­ted visu­al jour­nal­ist and artists, the work­shop was entire­ly free to cho­sen par­tic­i­pants. The group facil­i­tat­ed dis­cus­sions on the chal­lenges fac­ing female pho­to­jour­nal­ists and how to over­come them to carve out careers in this demand­ing indus­try, advice on pro­fes­sion­al net­work­ing, how to edit port­fo­lios, and strate­gies for find­ing and cre­at­ing paid work.

Review: After the Image 2019

Written on September 19, 2019, post­ed in Review, Sarajevo

This three-day “After the Image” work­shop with VII Photo Agency’s Philip Blenkinsop and Daniel Schwartz in Sarajevo addressed the crit­i­cal peri­od between the end of a pho­to­graph­ic project and the moment when a design­er genius embarks on squeez­ing your images and vision into a book that will nei­ther make you proud nor rich, or when an artist-turned-curator hijacks them to illus­trate his agen­da. In oth­er words, the peri­od when you need to exer­cise an author’s author­i­ty but still want to lis­ten to those with expe­ri­ence in mak­ing books and exhi­bi­tions. Generally, it is a peri­od marked by men­tal exhaus­tion, self-doubt, and dis­ap­point­ment. Nothing you had envis­aged in the field seems to work on pages or walls.

Review: VII in Sarajevo: Festival of the Image 2019

Written on September 19, 2019, post­ed in Review, Sarajevo

In May 2019, the VII Academy, the edu­ca­tion­al arm of the VII Foundation, host­ed “VII in Sarajevo: Festival of the Image”: two work­shops, thirty-one stu­dents, nine pre­sen­ta­tions, pan­el dis­cus­sions on the state of the media in the Balkans, con­ver­sa­tions with VII Photo Agency pho­tog­ra­phers, and an exhi­bi­tion “Her Take: (Re)Thinking Masculinity,” fea­tur­ing the work of the sev­en women pho­tog­ra­phers of VII. There were 200 fes­ti­val par­tic­i­pants from thirty-seven coun­tries, includ­ing fifty-six schol­ar­ships for stu­dents from the region!