Minimalistisk/ meditativ landskapsfotografering ISLAND

Workshopen arrangeres av NORDphotography, og vil foregå på engelsk:

WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:
In the last decade, Iceland has become the “must visit” destination for travellers from all over. The diverse, other-worldly landscapes of Iceland’s Golden Circle region continue to siren call hobbyist and professional photographers alike. Capturing the awe inspiring beauty of the Icelandic countryside in a way that feels fresh and unique has become harder and harder to do.

This workshop will challenge students to break the rules, look deeper and ignore the easy and overdone postcard shots. Jacob and Alissa Hessler take a fresh, more minimal and contemporary approach to traditional landscape photography. In this workshop you will be challenged to remove the clutter, the obvious and the cliché from your frame to create powerful images with stopping power. Students will be taught how to subtract, abstract and distill the landscape down to its essence and hone their own distinct visual voice. Through daily shooting excursions we will challenge students will to change their perspective and see photographic possibilities in seemingly familiar scenes. Instead of shooting what is right in front of you, we will encourage you to look harder.

​This workshop will inspire existing landscape photographers, as well as those new to the field, to create distinctive imagery that embraces the minimal. This class is a balance of honing the artist’s eye and advancing technical skills. Jacob Hessler, a fine-art landscape photographer, will encourage students to capture their own interpretation of the modern landscape. Alissa Hessler, an art director and photo editor, will help students define and refine their developing signature style. She will work with students to edit and add the final polish to their completed images. In addition to the fieldwork, this class will explore the work of other contemporary photographers using the landscape as a subject.

This workshop will include ample time shooting and exploring the Icelandic countryside balanced with constructive class critiques, demonstrations and instructional slideshows. In addition, the Hesslers will schedule one-on-one meetings with each student. At the end of the workshop, you will feel confident to shoot, critique, and edit your photography in new ways.

​We accept 10 participant in this class.

​WORKSHOP TUITION:
NOK 27.000,- inc. single room
NOK 23.000,- inc. shared room

INCLUDED IN THE TUITION: a two instructor workshop, accommodation, welcome dinner Sunday, breakfast and lunch Monday - Thursday.

NOT INCLUDED: Travel costs, transportation (rental car) and dinner Monday - Thursday.

ACCOMMODATION:
Our accommodation in Iceland is Úlfjótsskáli luxury lodge, one of the most pristine accommodations Iceland has to offer. We have room for 10 participants, divided among single rooms and double rooms. The house has 7 bathrooms, an indoor fireplace, an outdoor fire-pit, a gym, a game room, a sauna and outdoor hot-tub with heated water 24/7. The house also has a kitchen with all the facilities you would need. We have a chef on our workshops who will serve our welcome dinner, pluss breakfast and lunch to the participants. Úlfjótsskáli luxury lodge is located in the Golden Circle and close to the major attractions in South Iceland such as Geysir, Gullfoss and Thingvellir National Park.

TRANSPORTATION:
We do recommend that you rent a car while in Iceland, either together with your fellow participants or by yourself. We will open up a closed

Facebook group for this class before the workshop, so participants can coordinate their travel plans and transportation.

ABOUT JACOB HESSLER:
Jacob Hessler is a contemporary fine art photographer, known for his expansive and meditative landscapes. Hessler’s work has explored rising seas, industrialized farming, borders and boundaries, invasive species, extinction, and more broadly, mankind's relationship with, and impact on, the natural world. His keen eye and use of scale connects viewers with the vastness of the human experience. Jacob is a graduate of the Brooks Institute of Photography in Santa Barbara, and pursued his master’s degree in graphic design at Parsons, The New School for Design. He worked in New York as a commercial photographer and art director from 2006-2011. In 2011, Hessler left New York and moved back to his childhood hometown in mid-coast Maine to focus on fine art landscape photography. Jacob’s work is widely collected and displayed throughout the world. He is a represented artist at Dowling Walsh Gallery, Corey Daniels Gallery and Soapbox Arts.

ABOUT ALISSA HESSLER:
With a diverse background in art direction, photography, and film production management, Alissa Hessler has worked as both the director for creative talent and as the creative talent. She has shot and produced content for international publications and brands, art directed and produced commercial shoots, managed global launch events, and orchestrated rebrands of international corporations. In her free time, she continues to champion young farmers and rural small business owners through her Urban Exodus project. Her first book Ditch the City and Go Country, was released in 2017, distributed by Macmillan Press.

Les full workshop beskrivelse på NORDphotographys nettside, hvor du og finner påmeldingsskjema: http://www.nordphotography.com/themeditativelandscape