International Summer School of Photography 2011

Applications are now open for the ISSP workshops in Latvia this August. Last year more than 200 people applied from 42 countries for the 60 places. In the end 22 different countries were represented and looking on facebook, a lot of these people have continue to keep in touch.
I was teaching last year and I must admit that I had a great time, both with the students and relaxing at the end of the night with the other teachers. The intense but fun atmosphere and everyone living together in the middle of nowhere, really does create an amazing bond. Application will close 8th MAY.

© Arno Rafael Minkkinen

The teachers this year are:

Workshop 1: Personal documentary: Interior
Teacher: Michael Ackerman
Workshop 2: Kuldīga in Pop Latino

Teacher: Marcos Lopez
Workshop 3: Creative documentary: Using reality to create personal fiction
Teacher: Claudine Doury


Workshop 4: Who else am I

Teacher: Arno Rafael Minkkinen

 Workshop 5: Still Life as Critical Aesthetics
Teacher: David Bate

This year I will be teaching a workshop with Vanessa Winship during ISSP, but it will be outside the normal applications. More news to follow in the next couple of days.

A couple of the participants from my workshop in Latvia

A couple of the participants from my workshop in Latvia, working on long term projects.
Masha Osipova, is a Russian woman who grew up in Holland from an early age. She is exploring her relationship to her  home town in Russia, "My Russia"

All photos above © Masha Osipova

Taking a slightly different approach is Janka Husta from Slovakia, who is living in Singapore and photographing her lifestyle and friends.

 

All photos above © Janka Husta
I will post some more of the participants in the next couple of weeks.