INTRODUCING MULTI-CITY PREMIUM WORKSHOPS & CITY WEEKEND WORKSHOPS
Our recently conducted RAW dual-city workshops met and exceeded our expectations. While it also revealed new opportunities.
To follow up on this, we aim to elevate this type of dual-city workshop to a more premium and immersive experience, and change the name to Multi-City Premium Workshops, where they used to be called RAW Dual-City workshops. Simultaneously, we are also introducing the more compact and traditional City Weekend Workshops.
The first workshops with the new formats have just been announced in our bookings store.
In our workshops, we only select locations and structures that are interesting from a design point of view and have artistic appeal, not because they are touristic or have Instagram appeal. Of course, we cannot completely avoid the tourist spots.
Regardless of your preferences or objectives, apart from the high-quality content, both workshop types will always strive to be enjoyable and memorable experiences with like-minded people. Respect, collaboration, and having an open mind are important features and requirements.
MULTI-CITY PREMIUM WORKSHOPS
The Multi-City Premium workshops (formerly known as RAW Dual-City Workshops) will usually have 2 or 3 cities over a period of 6 to 7 days, and cover everything from art’s deep theoretical considerations to novel techniques and practical methods. The emphasis will be on traditional and modern composition techniques with various personal innovations.
Furthermore, the emotional connection and expressing the authentic subjective experience play important roles in the Multi-City Premium workshops. During this workshop, it will become clear that art is more than a popular label you can attach to anything to make it sound interesting.
Except for the long exposure and B&W processing tutorials, the learning material is unique and is developed from the ground up and has never been published before. It even forms the backbone of a book I am writing on art and its importance for human consciousness in times of AI.
At this moment, the syllabus is already 300+ pages, with 2 separate videos, totalling 7 hours. The syllabus readings will be continuously updated and expanded. No City workshop is ever the same. The content and structure evolve with every new workshop. And locations will also change.
CITY WEEKEND WORKSHOPS
The City Weekend workshops are usually 3-day hands-on workshops from Friday to Sunday, focused on one city, and on learning to create architectural images of a high technical and artistic level. Images that will resonate with both fine art and commercial architectural photographers.
The learning material of the City Weekend workshops is more compact, technical, and practical compared to the Multi-City Premium workshops. The learning material of the City Weekend workshop is based on the learning material of the Multi-City Premium workshops and, therefore, always has unique content.
City Weekend workshops have slightly larger groups, but not by much. Personal attention and the objective of creating only outstanding images with evocative and authentic content will always prevail.
Below is an overview of the 2 types of workshops we are offering as of 2025, with the most important differences (right-mouse-click image to enlarge in new tab).
DIFFERENT MAIN TOPICS PER WORKSHOP
Since our first workshop in the current format last year in Berlin, there has always been a main recurring topic that runs throughout the workshop. In Berlin, the main topic was: ‘What is art, how does it relate to human consciousness, and why is it important for the understanding and the creation of art?‘
In the Barcelona-Madrid dual-city workshop, the topic was more technical, and it was about: ‘Advanced composition techniques for architecture‘. And to reveal a bit about that, we didn’t mention the rule of thirds or the golden ratio. Those are merely secondary rules in architecture. In architectural photography, it is more about architecture-specific rules, such as non-axial/axial with 1 or 2 facades, vertical framing elements, Max. point of perspective, etc.
All the main topics of previous workshops, together with other fine art photography topics that are more common, will be included in the updated syllabus readings.
So, the content of every new workshop builds on previous workshops and expands on that. For the next workshop in Rome-Milan, the main topic is ‘Finding your voice in art through individuation‘. I believe that insights of Jungian psychology and from metaphysics can be mapped to the field of the arts to get more ‘grip’ on art.
MAIN PRINCIPLES
Regardless of which workshop suits your needs, the following principles are important features for both workshops:
- The emphasis on the awareness that the unique subjective experience – human consciousness- is the only source of art
- Architectural photography is about celebrating the architectural design and the architect. Fine art is about celebrating and expressing the uniquely subjective experience of the artist – consciousness. Together, as a pair and only as a pair, they form fine art architecture.
- Inspiration through collaboration. Consistently working together and looking at each other’s work while shooting in the field is an important way of finding inspiration on the spot. We actively encourage and create the right conditions to enable this.
- Respect towards each other is the default state of mind. We don’t critique each other’s work explicitly and verbally. We do it implicitly through the visual language in our work. That is how the great artists worked and changed art history. That’s how we do it, too.
Learn more here about the lecture topics, activities, and the objectives set in the predecessors of the new workshops. Or read some of the testimonials here
If you are interested in our upcoming Multi-City Premium or City-Weekend workshops then please keep an eye on the website’s newsletters or sign up for the waitlist on our Workshop store here.
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