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David Alan Harvey Workshops 2010

At long last, the schedule many of you have been asking about…

This is the first time we’ve ever tried to plan David out a year in advance. In a word – unreal. So thank you for your patience as we got our act together. As you check out the schedule below, you’ll find you have many opportunities to come and work with David in his traditional workshop formats, in many different places around the country and internationally.

We are in the process of developing a very special program of uniquely personal, specialized workshops that meet you exactly where you are creatively and professionally – whether it’s planning and editing a book, developing and expressing your voice as a photographer, or learning to give your client exactly what they want (whether they know they want it or not). For some that may mean coming on “assignment”, for others joining him for a long weekend at the beach house or loft.

We have started booking appointments for online portfolio reviews and mentoring via Skype and we hope to make time for in-person review dates as well during his travels.

David has a busy shooting and publishing schedule this year, but this should only add to the advice and help he can give.

If any of these ideas suit you, drop me a line directly and we’ll start a conversation…

Looking forward to it,

Michelle Smith

Workshop Director

michelle@burnmagazine.org

David Alan Harvey Workshop Schedule

At Home with David Alan Harvey: Loft

Brooklyn, New York September 18-24, 2010

Shooting Workshop. 12-student limit. Portfolio review required. Advanced students only. Students will have the opportunity to meet with editors, publishers and other photographers while shooting their own essay. Personal guidance and critique. Final student show presented as a very special event in New York…

Contact: Michael Courvoisier – harveyworkshops@gmail.com

Beach House Editions

Outer Banks North Carolina October 10-15, 2010

Book-making/Projects Workshop. 6 student limit. This will be our most premium workshop for those seriously ready to publish a book or take on magazine essay projects. Please join me in celebration of the hand made book as well as preparing you for mainstream book and magazine publishing. Some of you will want to study specialized book publishing, others may simply want to start an essay project. This smaller format workshop will allow serious one on one mentoring. Darkroom available as well as pigment ink jet printer. Portfolio review required.

At Home with David Alan Harvey: Beach House

Shooting Workshop. 10-12-student limit. Portfolio review required. Advanced students only. Students will have the opportunity to meet with editors and photograph their own essay.

Contact: Michelle Smith – michelle@burnmagazine.org

Day of the Dead in Oaxaca, Mexico

October 28-November 5, 2010

Portfolio review required. 12 student limit. Advanced students. Please see student work from the 2009 Day of the Dead workshop in Oaxaca, Mexico www.davidalanharveyworkshops.com

Contact: Marie Arago – mariearago@mac.com

TECHNIQUE WORKSHOP

Lighting the Blues ..

Clarksdale, Mississippi April 10-18, 2011

Portfolio review required. 20 student limit. Intermediate to Advanced.

Contact: Michelle Smith michelle@burnmagazine.org

This workshop is dedicated to really learning how to use artificial light. A serious technical skills workshop with the theme of the Blues as a backdrop.

Flash. Just a tweak. Just the right photographic brush stroke. Strobe flash made easy. So that you can use strobe in the most creative way without hanging yourself up with a lot of unnecessary gear. So you can get to the picture. Your essay. I made it easy for myself and I can make it easy for you. Well, it will be easy by the time you finish this class. My overall goal in life and in my workshops is to make your work excellent with the minimalist approach using your energies and talents to get “inside” and make the technical side work for you rather than against you.

Michael Loyd Young will teach with me in this class. Mike was a student of mine three years ago. Today he has a new book Blues, Booze, and BBQ from three years of work in the Mississippi delta. Mike made sure I was his mentor in those last three years up to publication of his book. Of course I do mentor many students, but Mike wanted to publish a book on the blues country very near to his boyhood home. He also asked if I would write the forward for such a book. My answer was simple. You gotta have the pictures. I cannot endorse a book unless the work comes up to a certain level. Mike came to that level, got his book published by Powerhouse.

As a student Mike had asked me quite a bit about flash technique and when I saw that he had used it so well for his book , that I though how perfect would it be to do a lighting workshop in the heart of blues country, Clarksdale, Miss., during Juke Joint Festival next spring. Mike and I had previously worked together in blues country with me helping him with his lighting and him helping me find families for my American Family project, so we are definitely a good team.

So, Mike and I are going to do it. Together. A truly perfect combo of soaking up the blues, learning creative lighting, and with one on one hang out and shooting time with me and with Mike. I have never done a workshop with quite the same one on one hands on side by side shooting experience as this will be. The living space for all who attend this workshop will be the coolest ever. We can easily handle 20 students in this environment and shooting style.

Oh yes, there is another Mike. Mike Courvoisier whose good spirit and tech savvy make everyone relax when we do our final projection of your work in front of a large audience on the final day of the workshop. Mike will produce a sound slide slow of exceptional quality and reflecting individually on your essay for the week.

Michelle Smith, my overall Workshop Director, will make everything run smoothly. She will be your “go to” person. Michelle and I have produced ad campaigns for Nikon and fashion shoots for the National Geographic product catalog involving artificial light. Michelle will definitely light up your life.

Bottom line. You will like your time with us. In every way. We promise you a lot of fun and a whole new way of looking at your photographic life.

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