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This year, due to the pandemic,
we are conducting The Photography Master Retreat 2020/Virtual, during six working days from Sunday July 5 to Friday July 10.
The days would be partial days of six hours each.
Apply as there are still a few spots available, on a first come, first serve basis.
The Photography Master Retreat, one week in a remote hamlet in the south of France, is the only workshop where photographers are guided by three mentors to reflect on their work and its meaning. It usually takes place right after the opening week of Les Rencontres d’Arles nearby, usually the second week of July.
“I wanted to create a gathering where photographers could productively retire for a week, with time on their side. Take a step back and hopefully one giant leap forward to reconnect with their work and process in a new light.”
The Photography Master Retreat mentors are dedicated to bringing their experience and insider knowledge of the complex world of professional photography to help established and emerging photographers refine their personal vision, reframe their projects and re-orient them to take their work to the next level.
Meet our three Mentors
Elisabeth Biondi – Independent Curator, Teacher, Writer, and Visuals Editor 1996-2011 at The New Yorker, NY
Lyle Rexer – Critic, Curator, and Faculty at SVA, NY
Martine Fougeron – Photographer, Artist, Faculty at ICP, NY
Take your work to the next level
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Find out about our previous five retreats with videos and testimonials.
APPLY TO BE CONSIDERED FOR AN UPCOMING RETREAT.
We hope to do a retreat in 2020. If that is not possible, we will resume in 2021.
You may send your application anytime. Applications that are received now will receive priority status, once our retreats resume. Find out more in How to Apply.
“A communal atmosphere permeated all that we did – from our sessions and meetings, to the homemade meals, to our walks and talks. This process combined with time to reflect, provided like a cross between a graduate school critique and an artist colony. Extraordinary how every photographer there had an “epiphany”.”
“This is an age of social media and shared images, but rarely do photographers or artists actually get to work together, face to face, to stimulate new ideas and challenge each other creatively… No one leaves Esparon unchanged.
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“This is a very unusual photographic workshop in that it stresses not technical mastery of the camera, nor capitalizing on the Provence location. The retreat already assumes you are an accomplished photographer. Instead, the emphasis is reflecting on one’s trajectory as an artist, rethinking projects, refocusing on clearer directions.”
