Post - Stephen Dupont

Now that the festival and workshop has ended I can start to take it in and reflect on the past weeks. The workshop was a big success thanks to the tutoring and mentoring from Jack Picone, David Dare Parker, Ed Giles and myself, along with a very special presentation by Robert Pledge, President of Contact Press Images. Robert gave a fantastic and memorable talk about photography which included work by Robert Frank, Lu Guang, Annie Leibovitz and David Burnett. Thank you Bob!

The students were an absolute pleasure to teach and an inspiration too. Their photography was surprising, inventive and moving, each one excelling with their assigned projections around the theme "Performance."

This is what one student wrote

"Very motivating, long hours but worth every minute. This masterclass was certainly the first step in the right direction to improve any project in a new, different and better way. The benefits in time will be no doubt numerous. Getting out of my comfort zone for the theme and kind of lens I obliged myself to use was a great experience. Dialogue with the Stephen, Jack and David was simple, quick at times, and slow. When the right moment came up they all took the time to explain in different ways the same thing till they see we understood it. Great fun and certainly an experience I will remember – thank you!" - Andrea Francolini

Photos © Jack Picone and David Dare Parker