Making, Funding, & Publishing Documentary Photography
NATALIE KEYSSAR + DANIELLA ZALCMAN
WORKSHOP FEE: $200
LOCATION: VIRTUAL!
DATES: FEBRUARY 25-26, 2023
In this intensive two-day workshop, photojournalists Natalie Keyssar & Daniella Zalcman will walk you through the ins and outs of best business practices for working photographers. We’ll cover the mechanics of pitching and grant writing, budgeting, story development, negotiating licensing and project fees, how we work most effectively on assignment, and the ways in which we’ve built sustainable careers pursuing the projects and stories we’re most passionate about.
We’ll pack February 25 + 26 full of programming (from 10am - 6pm EST both days) that will include talks, breakout sessions, and opportunities for tailored feedback and Q&A. We’ll share our go-to resources and hacks for organization and networking, the secrets that we wish we’d known when we were just starting out, and some of the harder lessons that we’ve learned after a combined 30 years in the industry.
If you’re interested in joining us, please fill out the application form and payment below! You can reach us with any questions at dani@dan.iella.net or nkeyssar@gmail.com.
Note: We’re both committed to building a more radically transparent and inclusive photo industry. For every 5 people who sign up for our workshop, we’ll make one space available for free. Please indicate in the signup form below if you’d like to be considered for one of the free spaces, and we will reach out to everyone who registers by mid February to let you know if we have space for you.
CANCELLATION POLICY: We understand that plans change and last-minute work and opportunities come up. If you need to cancel your registration more than one week before the start of the workshop, we will either postpone your enrollment to the next time we offer the workshop or refund the workshop fee. We will not be able to issue refunds less than a week before the start of the workshop.
ABOUT NATALIE & DANIELLA
Natalie Keyssar is a documentary photographer based in Brooklyn, New York. She is interested in class inequality, youth culture, and the personal effects of political turmoil and violence, primarily in the US and Latin America. Keyssar regularly contributes to The New York Times Magazine, TIME, Bloomberg Businessweek, and California Sunday Magazine, and has been recognized by the Philip Jones Griffith Award, The Aaron Siskind Foundation, PDN 30, Magenta Flash Forward, and American Photography. She has taught New Media at the International Center of Photography in New York and has instructed at workshops across the US and Latin America with Foundry, Women Photograph, The Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the IWMF, and the International Photography Festival of Puebla, Mexico. She is a Pulitzer Center Grantee, a long-term fellow with the International Women’s Media Foundation Latin America program, the winner of the 2018 ICP Infinity Emerging Photographer Award and the 2019 PH Museum Women Photographer's Grant.
Daniella Zalcman is a Vietnamese-American documentary photographer based between Paris and New York. She is a multiple grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a fellow with the International Women's Media Foundation, a National Geographic Society grantee, and the founder of Women Photograph, a non-profit working to elevate the voices of women and non-binary visual journalists. Her work tends to focus on the legacies of western colonization, from the rise of homophobia in East Africa to the forced assimilation education of Indigenous children in North America. Her ongoing project, Signs of Your Identity, is the recipient of the Arnold Newman Prize, a Robert F Kennedy Journalism Award, the FotoEvidence Book Award, the Magnum Foundation's Inge Morath Award, and part of Open Society Foundation's Moving Walls 24. Daniella is a visiting professor at Wake Forest University, and a member of the board of trustees of the W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund and the board of directors of the ACOS Alliance.