Istanbul, Turkey. May 2025.
First session released 3rd March 2025 and a call with Billy or Christina can be booked from 17th March
Online workshop starts 14th April 2025 with weekly steps, calls and Q&A's
We'll be on location in Istanbul from 17-24 May 2025
This will be our seventh mentoring programme guiding a limited group of professional photographers through a proven (and multi-award-winning) 6-week process to a thought-through series, one that demonstrates your unique "visual voice".
Craft, shoot & share a powerful,
inspiring project with story
and depth in 6 weeks.
WHAT DO YOU GET?
- You’ll attend 6 live webinars including Q&A’s with Christina Force & Billy Plummer, and recieve online support.
- Techniques & systems (as used by ad agency creatives) on how to develop and refine authentic personal narrative. Inspiration, tips and ideas with working examples on idea generation & articulation, story structure, shooting style and the elements that hold a series together as a "family" of images & much more.
- Actions set after each session to build and make your project happen and an online community forum for support and accountability.
- Most important of all, you'll create a new project you're proud of that'll help keep you top of mind with clients so they'll remember you when "that brief" comes across their desk.
There are a limited number of spaces on the workshops. Attendees will be selected on the basis of their work standard and experience, unless they have previously been approved.
The workshop fee does not include international transport, accommodation in Havana or ground expenses. International participants are responsible for reimbursement of travel expenses in case the workshop is canceled. We highly recommend that you buy refundable tickets.
CRAIG A. CHAMPION ︎ THE FIRST 2 MINUTES
During quarantine, the first important thing I noticed in the two minutes of every day was photographed. I decided I’d do this until my supply of film ran dry. It was a familiar act I theorized might steer the day into a pinch of normalcy. It would also become visual documentation of me attempting to ground myself to anything.
Why was this important?
My apartment wasn’t the only place I was locked down. It turned out, for decades my head had been constructing a rat trap of forgotten trauma and it decided spring it on me… In tandem with a bipolar episode.
After two minutes an ugly forgotten past would begin another assault. My bipolar would jumpstart its way out from its heavy spell of Trazodone, then the day started disintegrating. I needed to try to have an image of before that.
Taking these pictures was confusing. An annoying, senseless rote act that made me hate the art form I love most. However, the daily ritual and the streaming written thoughts that accompany were somehow vital. They got me through some dangerously difficult days and helped me in ways I’m still decoding.
The Series Project. Isolation. July. 2020.
IPA Winner: Fine Art Analog Category.
︎ CRAIG A. CHAMPION
The irresistibly eclectic themes gathered over the last twenty plus years in Craig’s photography may have sprouted from his nomadic youth. When living with his family in an RV, bouncing from campground to campground on a weekly basis, change, the unfamiliar, and new experiences were constant. This period of raw discovery, Craig recalls, was the best period of his life. He’s chosen to carry on the tradition as he’s traveled the world directing commercials, branded projects, and conducting photo shoots for a wide variety of international brands.
Craig’s most recent series, The First Two Minutes, was an IPA winner in its category, Fine Art, Analog. It was also a Jury Top 5 Selection Award recipient.
︎CRAIG’S WEBSITE
LORNA CARMICHAEL ︎ ME ENTRO EL GARRION
A meditation on longing.
“Me entro el garrion” es una expresion de la añoranza para los cubanos cuando el sentimiento de extrañar a sus costumbres, familia, hogar, amigos, se vuelve muy fuerte.
“I got the sparrow,” is an expression for when you miss in a strong way your habits, family, friends - when Cubans can’t handle that feeling they say that.
The Series Project. Havana. April 2023.
IPA Awards 2023 - Honorable Mention
IPA Awards 2023 - Official Selection
︎ LORNA CARMICHAEL
Lorna’s wanderlust as a child was fueled by whimsical family adventures with her Dad.
Daydreaming of sparkling oceans, Lorna left Scotland, after studying architecture at Glasgow School of Art, to explore sunnier lands. Always travelling with a camera, happenstance threw her into the world of visual storytelling.
A sucker for Romeo and Juliet, she was thrilled to work on Baz Luhrmann's epic 'Australia' as her inaugural feature film. Combining her love for adventure and film, she camped under the stars in the Australian outback, and then back in the film studios she was thrown into Visual Effects, where she worked alongside great directors and cinematographers creating magic on the film set. Lorna's film resume includes Narnia, Voyage of the Dawn Treader, J Edgar Hoover and The Night Manager.
4 continents, and many serendipitous journeys later, Lorna is a photographer and filmmaker based in Vancouver, Canada. Her photographic practice, influenced strongly by her work in feature film, is primarily focused on portraiture, street and photojournalism.
Lorna's photographs have been used in press publications, feature films, and by charitable organizations. Awards include a BAFTA nomination, and an IPA Honorable mention in the 2020 Press Photo Category. Her work has been exhibited by Lens Culture and in 'These Days - Works in Isolation', a group exhibition documenting our time in lockdown.
'Looking through the lens helps me express myself, and there is nothing I like more than following my curiosity, intuition and love of people.'
︎LORNA’S WEBSITE
TRENT MITCHELL ︎ FLOWERMOON
My daughter Ayla began her transition into the world during the Covid-19 pandemic under the Super Flower Moon of May. A poignant symbol of rebirth, natural cycles and growth. Ayla translates into the meanings, "halo of light around the moon" and "from a strong and resilient place."
During isolation restrictions, the timely intersection of events lead me to explore the tension between change and natural cycles from a global and everyday perspective. My response was photographed in the moment during the lunar cycle between May 7th and June 6th 2020.
The Series Project. Isolation. July. 2020.
︎ TRENT MITCHELL
Trent Mitchell is an Australian photographer whose contemporary eye for capturing people and moments has been globally acclaimed throughout the past decade. His moment-in-time, reportage style connects people and place in a bold and dynamic way. Combining an award-winning personal practice with commercial work for some of the country’s biggest brands, Mitchell’s influence is felt across all of his works.
Trent’s photographs have been cited through a raft of awards, including a finalist perch at the Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize for nine years out of eleven, resulting in a win for his Australia Seriously series in 2015. Further accolades have come from the International Photography Awards, Sony World Photography Awards, Head On, Australian Life Photographic Prize and Capture Magazine Emerging Photographer of the Year.
Throughout Mitchell’s personal and commercial work, it’s his ability to not only compose his subject, but to distil the atmosphere of the location and truly evoke a sense of place that identifies his work. While the focus might be Australian, the stories told and the heart they encapsulate resonate globally.
︎TRENT’S WEBSITE
ALLISON HUNTER ︎ FREEDOM TO FLY
Facing a struggling economy, a rising climate crisis and quickly diminishing reproductive rights, women in the US are facing the greatest challenge to autonomy in decades. Nonetheless, they choose the freedom to fly by using what they have: skateboards.
The Series Project. Isolation. July. 2020.
Winner of the People - Professional category - Jury Top 5 at the International Photography Awards 2023- Winner of Critical Mass Top 50 2023
Photo Lucinda Winnder of the 2023 Excellence in Photography award
Communication Arts 2023 Excellence in Photography Winner
︎ ALLISON HUNTER
Allison was a determined 8 year-old fascinated by the natural beauty of the forest bordering her childhood home in rural New Jersey.
She never lost this wonder for the natural world and our connection to it.
Since then, Allison has studied art in Switzerland, rode to Prague on the back of a motorcycle and projected moving images onto abandoned grain silos in Houston. She’s exhibited her photography and video art in museums and galleries in Florida, North Carolina, California, New York, Canada, and Sweden. Her work is collected by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Center for Photography at Woodstock, the Albany Institute of History and Art, and the Museum of the University at Albany, among others.
Today Allison is just as much at home shooting for large clients such as Greystar as she is creating museum installations and gallery projects and has won multiple significant art grants.