Every passionate photographer has embarked on a long-term project once in her lifetime. It's not an easy task -- to find an interest and stay committed to it for months and years at a time. But through all the research, frustration, doubt, and hundreds of thousands of photographs taken, there's nothing more rewarding than finally seeing your total body of work take shape.
SPARK's photography workshop. Photo © SPARK Yourselves
Running parallel with PhotoBangkok (Thailand's biggest triennial photo festival), Thai National Geographic photographer Ekkarat Punyatara, with SPARK magazine, will be running a five-month Long-term Photography Workshop for budding photographers looking to find their voice and visual identity.
On selected weekends from Aug 17 until Dec 23, burgeoning photographers will start their own long-term project, with Ekkarat and special guest photographers guiding, shaping, expanding and developing ideas to create the most powerful visual narrative possible.
Within the five months, workshop attendees, through group and one-on-one sessions, will learn about composition, narrative photography, scoping and scructuring, sequencing, photography management, and have portfolio reviews to polish and improve their works and help find their own style.
Special guest speakers include Magnum Photography Award winner Argus Paul, former European PressPhoto Agency photographer Vinai Dithajohn, street photographer Akkara Nakatmna, fine-art photographer Lek Kiatsirikajorn, and House of Lucie founder Hossein Farmani.
Registration for the Long-term Photography Workshop by SPARK with Ekkarat Punyatara opens until Aug 5. Registration costs 32,000 baht (inclusive of lunch and morning and afternoon coffee breaks). Special price for those who register before July 15 is 28,000 baht. Only 12 available slots with one scholarship are available
Send in 20 of your best photographs to sparkyourselves@gmail.com. Only shortlisted applicants will be contacted via e-mail by the SPARK team.
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