Nick McGrath Wins Golden Scarf Award; The Fifth Foundry Workshop Ends on Stratospheric High
CHIANG MAI – August 4 2012 – Australian Nick McGrath (above, r) has won the prestigious Golden Scarf Award for the 2012 Foundry workshop. Selected by the workshop faculty, and awarded at the closing slideshow of student work, held at the Art Museum of Chiang Mai University, it rewards the highest achievements in the workshop. [...]
A Day for Work, Reflection, Thanks, and…..a Little Play?
CHIANG MAI – 3 August 2012 – It was a day in which milestones were reached for some and others were sent back for still more images. Excellence was the byword, and everybody realized it. The pressure was building, but so was the excitement. Work continued on all fronts during the day. During the evening [...]
Portfolio Reviews – Instructors Give, Students Absorb
CHIANG MAI – 2 August 2012 - Instructor Suthep Kritsanavarin (above left) along with nearly all other instructors spent Thursday evening until after 11 pm at Documentary Arts Asia reviewing portfolios with students. Applying experience, objectivity and insight, they worked while students waited in the street outside, which had been blocked off for the night. DAA [...]
Students, Instructors Focus on Editing of Projects
CHIANG MAI – August 1, 2012 – Andrea Bruce (r) talks with students Rob Goodell (c), and Insiya Syed (l) on Goodell’s preliminary showing of his project work. By midweek students were scrambling to make sure their reportage was evolving properly and that they were producing the best possible stories. Many were sent back [...]
Speaker & Panel Address Psychological Trauma
CHIANG MAI – 31 July 2012 – This evening workshop participants heard a presentation by Dr. Paul Harper on psychological trauma associated with covering conflict and social issues, followed by a panel discussion by instructors on the effects they had observed in doing that work. The panel discussion ranged far and wide, with participants noting [...]
Registration Night at DAA; the Street is Filled
CHIANG MAI, 29 JULY 2012 — Coming from from all over the world, the fifth annual class of Foundry students assembled in Chiang Mai tonight to complete the registration process and to pick up instructor assignments and class materials. More than 125 students registered for a week of challenge, learning and growth guided by [...]
T minus One; A Sleeping Foundry Arises
CHIANG MAI, 29 July 2102 – It’s Sunday and excitement is in the air! Tonight the formal registration begins at the building of co-sponsor Documentary Arts Asia (DAA) and the students meet their instructors, many for the first time. Yesterday was headlined by an evening event at DAA, celebrating its six-month anniversary, at which over [...]
Final Awards Given – Top Prize – the Golden Scarf – Given to Haitian Photographer Dieu-Nalio Chery
The final awards have been given, with the top prize going to Chery Dieu-Nalio (whom everyone just calls Chéri). Cheri received the award as the photographer who best exemplifies the spirit of Foundry – quality of images, sensitivity to subjects, professional commitment and cooperation with colleagues. Congratulations to you, Chéri! Shown above (l-r), Suzie Katz, photographer [...]
Walter Astrada’s One-Image Bilingual Guide to Photojournalism
I continue to be struck by the commitment and creativity of the Foundry faculty in teaching their students. Yesterday I stumbled across one example that is definitely worth sharing. It is a diagrammatic drawing by faculty member Walter Astrada showing the elements of telling a story with images, along with the process for getting there. [...]
Tired, Hungry Mass of Students (and Faculty) Presses On Eagerly
The dynamics of Buenos Aires life challenge all workshop participants who aren’t accustomed to that lifestyle. The normal routine for “porteños” (people from Buenos Aires) is to rise about 9 am, eat breakfast. Lunch starts anywhere from 2 to 4 pm (or as they say, 14 to 16). That meal is often centered around mounds [...]
Ah, the Intensity of Portfolio Reviews (and Their Value)
Foundry tries to provide students with opportunities for close contact with the instructors. This workshop is no different and probably even better . Yesterday every nook and cranny of the Motivarte Photography School (which is hosting the workshop) and the faculty hotel (The Blue Soho) had a faculty member working with a student to review [...]
Off and Running/ ¡Y partió!
Over 130 students are registered – nearly every country in South America, many Central American countries, and several Caribbean countries is represented, not to mention India, Indonesia, Japan, North America, and Europe. Classes have begun and the energy is palpable. Más de 130 estudiantes están registrados – desde casi cada país de Sud America, muchos [...]
The Last Night: Student Work Shown; Awards Given
Foundry 2010 concluded Saturday night before a packed house with a show of work from the over 130 students participating. Subjects ranged from street denizens living off collected paper and cardboard to the many cats of Istanbul. The highlight of the evening, however, was the showing of a PG-to-X-rated video of the utility and value [...]
Welcome to the 2010 Foundry Photojournalism Workshop
At this year’s Foundry Photojournalism Workshop, top instructors and students from around the world have converged on Istanbul, Turkey, a city long known as a melting pot for exactly the kind of diversity this workshop strives to cultivate. Students arrived Sunday, June 20, from countries on six continents, particularly nearby nations, including Egypt, Yemen, Palestine/Gaza, [...]
