dienacht Publishing
Photobook masterclass in Berlin
13-16 June 2025
DIENACHT PUBLISHING
Photobook masterclass in Berlin
13-16 June 2025
Tutors: Calin Kruse & Yana Kruse
Photobook Masterclass with Calin Kruse and Yana Kruse / dienacht Publishing
Editing, Sequencing and Design of a Photobook
For any photographer, the recording of images is the first part of their journey with a story. The process that begins after the camera has been put down is often more challenging. The photographer is required to reflect, to speak and even to write so that their work can have a full life.
This masterclass is about the creation of photobooks on the one hand, as well as about rethinking the project in the context of a photobook as a specific medium, on the other hand. We will work closely with the participants on the production of a dummy from their own photo projects, focusing on the analysis of the project, editing, sequencing, design and the importance and choice of materials in the production of photobooks.
This workshop culminates with each participant creating a photobook dummy.
Maximum 6 Participants. The workshop will be held in English.
Calin Kruse studied Graphic Design. He is the founder and maker of dienacht Magazine and dienacht Publishing, director of the Leipzig Photobook Festival, and is a photographer himself. Calin is also a curator, holds guest talks, lectures, makes photobook workshops and masterclasses around the world (Berlin, Vienna, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Istanbul, Moscow, Lagos, Georgetown, Mexico City, Yangon, Yerevan, etc.), and reviews portfolios for photography and photobook festivals.
Yana Kruse studied Linguistics and Literature and has five-year experience as institutional photography curator in Moscow. During this time, she curated and co-curated over fifteen exhibitions and edited several photobooks. She has been dienacht editor, curator and designer since 2018.
dienacht Publishing is an independent photobook publisher whose aim is to showcase carefully selected photographers through a limited circulation of beautifully produced books. dienacht Publishing have received several awards for its publications: Best German Photobook Awards, Best Books of the Year, Shortlist at the Paris Photo – Aperture Award, and a range of LeadAwards.
dienacht Publishing:
www.dienacht-magazine.com/publishing
dienacht °Lab: www.dienacht-magazine.com/lab
6 participants
Early price: €650 for first two applications
Normal price €700
Can be paid with instalements
Deadline 01 June
To apply send 10-15 images and/or a website to:
Michael Grieve at info@werkstattberlin.com
PHOTOGRAPHY AS A SOCIAL PRACTICE
Workshop in Berlin
Tutor: Rafal Milach
Location: Werkstatt Berlin, Wilhelmstrasse 7, 10963 Berlin12 participants
€1,950
2 scholarships 50% discount for under 30 years old
To apply send 10-15 images and/or a website to:
Michael Grieve at info@werkstattberlin.com
URBAN EXOTICISM
Workshop in Berlin
Tutor: Michael Grieve
Urban Exoticism is a photography workshop conducted by Michael Grieve, based on the theme 'urban exoticsm‘, a term coined by the Greek art historian, Alia Tsagkari, as an alternative concept to experience and understand creatively the urban environment. This 4-day experience endeavours to help participating photographers find new ways of understanding the urban environment and spatial relations towards the realisation of subjective documentary projects that attempt to go beyond prevailing mechanised modes of thought.
The first workshop in 2021 brought 12 photographers to Athens. With a heightened awareness of strange juxtapositions, layering and hidden places that build up the uncanny fabric of the city. This Urban Exoticism workshop is an exploration of Berlin. Participants will re-map and find visual strategies to interpret their new experience of the city. From a dérive perspective, that is a mode of experimental behaviour linked to the conditions of urban society: a technique of rapid passage through varied ambiances. It is an unplanned journey through a landscape, usually urban, in which participants drop their everyday relations and let themselves be drawn by the attractions of the terrain and the encounters they find there. The emphasis of these series of Urban Exoticism workshops is an experiential one, to engage in the process of making photographic work with a conceptual edge.
'Urban Exoticism is an expression that circumscribes a perception of the metropolitan space that values fragments, unexpected juxtapositions and elements obscured by everyday experience. Revealing the mystery beneath the apparently banal surfaces of the modern city, it provokes the emergence of extraordinary realities drawn from the realms of the exotic, the erotic and the unconscious.‘
Alia Tsagkari, Athens, 2021.
Location: Werkstatt Berlin, Wilhelmstrasse 7, 10963 Berlin10 participants
350 euros
To apply send 10-15 images and/or a website to:
Michael Grieve at info@werkstattberlin.com
MARK POWER
9 Month Program in Berlin
Janaury - September 2025
Tutor: Mark Power
Werkstatt Fotografie is offering a unique 9 month program with British documentary photographer, Mark Power in Berlin with 3 physical workshops. The program is designed to help participant photographers initiate long term documentary projects and navigate them in the best possible direction over a 9 month period. This guidance will identify the necessary methodologies to build a documentary project; be they conceptual, staged, fictional, experimental and abstract. The endeavour is to find the most appropriate visual strategies to work and enhance the meanings and concerns of the subject matter.
In-between the 3 physical workshops there will be individual on-line sessions.
January 24-27
May 15-18
September tbc
About Mark Power
Location: HWF, Bernhard-Nocht-Strasse 8, 20359 Hamburg St Pauli
13 participants
Price: €2600
To apply send 10-15 images and/or a website to:
Michael Grieve at info@werkstattberlin.com
MARK POWER
Workshop in Hamburg
04-08 April 2024
Tutor: Mark Power
British photographer, Mark Power, will conduct a workshop in Hamburg. This promises to be a special opportunity for those who wish to progress their photographic practice. This is a practical workshop and over the duration of the 5-days, participants will be expected to rethink the topography of the urban terrain and photograph Hamburg from a more conceptual, yet documentary perspective. Various strategies will be employed to map out the city, designed for photographers to engage both experientially and experimentally. Editing, sequencing of photographs will be a constant issue throughout the workshop. On the final evening each participant will make a presentation of the work produced during the workshop. Mark Power will also be in conversation with Michael Grieve about his career as a photographer. This will be open to a public audience at the HWF Galerie.
Workshop structure: Day 1. Mark Power will conduct a presentation and describe his working methodologies with some of his notable projects. Participants will each make a 20-30 minute presentation as an introduction to Mark and the group. Potential project ideas for the workshop will be discussed.
Day 2. Project ideas will be discussed in greater detail and participants will begin to photograph.
Day 3. The results of day 2 will be presented by each participant and critiqued as a group discussion, and then participants will continue shooting.
Day 4. A repeat of day 3, but with a greater emphasis on editing and sequencing. One to one tutorials.
Day 5. Editing, sequencing the work produced and ready for a presentation in the evening.
About Mark Power
Location: HWF, Bernhard-Nocht-Strasse 8, 20359 Hamburg St Pauli
14 participants
Early 800 euros deadline 31 January / Normal 900 euros deadline 29 February
To apply send 10-15 images and/or a website to:
Michael Grieve at info@werkstattberlin.com