Workshops, Courses and Seminars
Location: Riga, Latvia



Fall and winter 2010

All workshops are under the responsability of photographers with a long career in photography, recognized prestigious and awarded in the photojournalism.

1. Travel photography (by one photographer/lecturer)
For people that travel and want to know more about how to made good photos. You will learn how to manage the camera in situations when traveling, composition, tips when shooting people. The course will be a projection slide, comments by the photographer and questions of assistants.

Language course: latvian, russian, english
Requirements: Open all public.  You need take with you any camera and laptop. 
date: start from september
days: 90 minutes per  classroom. Monday. Wednesday, Friday.
group: only 12 max.
WiFi is available and for free. Darkroom.
Target of the workshop:  for travelers, photographers.
Fee: On depending how many people.
Diploma: we give a diploma of assistance to the workshop
saturday extra day: Our experience say that after the course usually all the assistants want to made a extra day with us shooting around in the countryside or anywhere. After that we have a confraternity meal.



2. Photojournalism (by four photographer/lecturer)
date: start from september
group: only 10-12 max.
WiFi is available and free
Language used: english, latvian, russian



3. Documentary photography (by two photographer/lecturer)
date: start from september
group: on demand but not more 15 persons.
Wifi is available and for free
Language used: english, latvian, russian



4. Seminars for groups (by two photographer/lecturer)
PHOTO baltic provide and organize courses on demand for small groups like
PR of Press officers
Press Officers of administration and private companies
Schools and academies of photography
Faculties of Journalism
Language: english, latvian, russian.



5. Black&White photography for begginners (Course by two photojournalists)
What you will learn in the course: Develop black&white films, printing black&white copies in darkroom, Photo Editing.
Date: start from september
Schedule: Two hours two days per week
Group: max 10 persons.
Requirements: Any but you need to write a email explaining the reason of whay you want to made the course.
Experience: any



6. Photo Editing
Date: start from september
Schedule: Two hours two days per week
Group: max 10 persons.
Requirements: Any but you need to write a email explaining the reason of whay you want to made the course.
Experience: Introduction to photography course



7. Reportages and photojournalisn production
Date: start from september



8. Introduction to photography course
For people that don't know about photography and want to know to learn how to made photos. You will learn in a good, friendly and comprehensive ambient how to manage the camera. The course will be a projection slide, practices with the photographers and questions of assistants.

Language course: latvian, russian, english
Requirements: Open all public.  You need take with you pencil, notebook  or laptop, and if you have a camera is perfect if not we will help you. 
date: starting from september
days: 90 minutes per  classroom. Tuesday, Thursday.
group: only 10 max.
WiFi is available and for free. Darkroom.
Target of the workshop:  for beginners, you don't need to have experience, you will get it with us.
Fee: On depending how many people.
Diploma: we give a diploma of assistance to the workshop



9. How to build your own site and manage (one teacher)
Course for photographers
Our lessons are in basis to work with templates of Wordpress
Not html. Easy configuration like WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get).

Schedule: One-two hour per week
Group: max 10 persons.
Requirements: laptop
Experience: any, for beginners.
For this course we don't organize groups for advanced photographers, and is only directed for beginners.
Course language: Latvian, russian, english.
 


We like to work directly with teachers and responsibles of education adapting the courses to the activities and subjects of the careers.  We shoot currenty with cameras Leica, Nikon and Canon.

If I make a donation or buy a T-shirt in which is invested my money?
Making a donation or buying a shirt you will help to PHOTO baltic to be an independent project, solidarity, promote photography, know emerging photographers at the magazine to be published four times a year, and especially gives the opportunity to many people to integrate into a visual community for the education progress.

Applications:

Please send us in a short email: a recently photo of you or link in Facebook, Drauguiem, Linkedin, etc... where we can to know more about you.
For selection of applicants and organize the groups where we can embed to you, we are glad to know about what you are expecting to learn in the course/worskhop and a short statement of your passion-love for the photography. We are photographers and visual educators and we were also beginners photographers too and one of our aims as mission is help others to find a way in the photography and build a name.

All courses group assistants: minimum five people

For more info and aplications: info@photobaltic.org


We are professional journalists, members associated and syndicated with the more important Union in Photojournalism and journalism in the world, the International Federation of Journalists (www.ifj.org)




  

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