CUNY J+ is pleased to announce an intimate, five-day intensive visual storytelling workshop led by James Estrin, a senior staff photographer at The New York Times and the co-editor of the Times’ photography blog LENS.
Participants will develop a photo essay from beginning to end during the workshop. There will be individual shooting assignments, daily group discussions and critiques, editing sessions and guest speakers, including master photographers and  photojournalsts. In addition to the group meetings, critiques and editing sessions, photographers will have one on one sessions with Mr. Estrin to either discuss personal projects or get career advice.
In group meetings, participants will focus on developing personal projects, learning how to tell an intimate story, as well as editing, promoting and publishing their work.
Participants meet together from 9:00 AM to 1 PM every day and shoot in the afternoons and evenings. There will be an opening reception and a closing party/slide projection of the students finished projects.
This $1,200 workshop is for professionals, advanced students and amateurs and will be limited to approximately 12 participants.
James Estrin is a senior staff photographer for The New York Times and an editor of its photography blog, Lens. He started at the Times in 1987 and was part of a team that won a 2001 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting. He has also written for The Times and produced multimedia projects for its Web site. This year, he has been photographing a series of stories on Islam. In 2004 and 2005, he wrote and photographed several articles on assisted suicide and dying. Estrin was a staff photographer for the Jackson Clarion-Ledger in Jackson, Miss. from 1981 to 1983 and then freelanced in Washington D.C. and New York before joining the Times.
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