PHOTOGRAPHY AS SOCIAL PRACTICE
Rafal Milach
Berlin
January - June 2026
How can we use the tools that we have to advocate for burning issues of our time and what is the agency of the artistic gestures? Images don’t change the world but have a potential of being a persuasive and powerful ally of the changes. The workshop will be focused on application of various visual art or performative strategies in the local environment with the main focus on usage of photography. From conceptualisation to interventions in architecture, landscape or local communities. From intimate stories to participatory group projects. Participants of the workshop will be looking for sustainable and relevant platforms to communicate about human rights, social injustice or the climate change.
The program is comprised of 3 physical workshops in Berlin and an individual on-line tutorial in-between the workshops with Rafal Milach.
Workshop dates:
13-16 March
12-14 June
04-06 September
Location: Werkstatt Berlin, Wilhelmstrasse 7, 10963 Berlin
Deadline 20 February
12 participants
€1,950
Fees can be paid in instalments
To apply send 10-15 images and/or a website to:
Michael Grieve at info@werkstattberlin.com
MARK POWER
9 Month Program in Berlin
January - September 2025
Werkstatt Berlin 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