NEXT SERIES PROJECT ONLINE - DATES TBC
Craft, shoot and share a powerful, inspiring project with story and depth in 4 weeks.
The Series Project Online #5.
Dates TBC.
This will be our 5th online mentoring programme guiding a limited group of professional photographers through a proven 4 week process to a thought-through series, one that demonstrates your unique "visual voice".
enquiries : info@theseriesproject.com
Under the guidance of ex-agency CD and advertising photographer Billy Plummer, and ex-agent turned photographer’s mentor, Christina Force, you’ll get clarity around what you’re shooting, how you’re shooting it, and most importantly why.
INVESTMENT.
Series Project Online includes all the fundamentals of the $4,900 location-based 6-week Series Project coursework condensed into an intensive 28 day course and made available to photographers for 3 monthly payments of 917NZD or one payment of 2700NZD.
With Series Project Online you’re just weeks away from having a fully formed & considered photo series to share with existing & potential new clients.
4 PRE-PRO SESSIONS WITH TASKS ︎
7 DAYS SHOOTING ︎ WORK REVIEWS︎
YOUR NEW SERIES
If you have any questions at all please email: info@theseriesproject.com
Attendees talk about their Series Project experience:
“The Series Project was both challenging and rewarding in so many ways, the end result being far more than just a personal project. From the outset a clean slate was needed and encouraged to explore your ideas and attractions, forcing you to dig deeper and really think about what it was you wanted to say. This was massive in itself and a lesson in defining your voice.
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Shooting the images to tell your story was exciting after so much background work was in place to really know what it was you were looking for and how you intended to achieve it, then having a group of distinguished photographers and industry professionals to share and discuss these with after a massive day was rewarding to say the least.
The insights gained, lessons learnt and friendships formed go way beyond a single project and is something I would recommend any photographer wanting to open new doors to be a part of.”
Mark Carter,
New Zealand.
Lurzers Archive Top 200 Advertising photographer.
Shooting the images to tell your story was exciting after so much background work was in place to really know what it was you were looking for and how you intended to achieve it, then having a group of distinguished photographers and industry professionals to share and discuss these with after a massive day was rewarding to say the least.
The insights gained, lessons learnt and friendships formed go way beyond a single project and is something I would recommend any photographer wanting to open new doors to be a part of.”
Mark Carter,
New Zealand.
Lurzers Archive Top 200 Advertising photographer.
“The organised and group nature of The Series Project was a great excuse to make me stop and devote a block of time to one project. Time to conceptualize, plan, and a whole week devoted to shooting it with no distractions. But to be honest, the best part was the 'brains trust'; working with Billy and Christina, and the fellow photographers attending. My project has been recognised in the IPA Lucie Awards, as well as Le Book. Don't everyone else book though, because I want to make sure I can attend the next one!”Christian Mushenko,
New York/Sydney.
“Having just begun my photography dream this was an incredible opportunity not only to be mentored by Christina and Billy who were fantastic but also to be surrounded by a group of photographers who are all so talented in their respective fields. The lessons I learned from The Series Project will stay with me on this journey I am so excited to be taking. Never be afraid to have a go, an experience like this is invaluable to someone wanting to improve and grow.”
Nick Paulsen,
Paris/New Zealand.
“This mentoring has helped my work jump to the next level and the finished result is a new series in my folio that I’m proud to show and is really well received. It strengthened my “why” and bought home my love of image making.”Sue Stubbs,
Sydney.
“Working with a group of other photographers made me totally re-examine my own approach to creating images. Getting feedback from both Christina and Billy as well as the rest of the group helped (forced) me to move out of my comfort zone and really grow as a photographer.”
Mead Norton,
New Zealand.
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.
The First Two Minutes, was an IPA winner in its category, Fine Art, Analog.
I t was also the IPA Jury’s 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, some choose the freedom to fly by using what they have:.
Their.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.