Call for Applications for The International Summer School of Photography 2015

March 6, 2015
Author Echo Gone Wrong
Published in Calls from Latvia

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The International Summer School of Photography (ISSP) is designed for emerging photographers, students of photography and art, and artists working with photography. Taking place in a unique setting in the Latvian countryside every August since 2006, the ISSP offers six advanced masterclasses by renowned international masters in combination with an exciting evening programme of talks and presentations and portfolio reviews. ISSP participants come from over 30 countries all around the world.

ISSP 2015 will take place from 1 – 9 August 2015 in Kuldīga. Applications are now open. In the programme this year: storytelling and collage with Jim Goldberg, landscape with Alexander Gronsky, narrative portraiture with Alessandra Sanguinetti, nature stories with Anna Fox, photobook making with Akina Books and Nico Baumgarten and camera obscura experiments with Takashi Homma. Please see Masters & workshops and programme for more information.

Deadline for submissions: 20 April

Over the past years, we’ve had a pleasure to cooperate with amazing masters such as Peter Bialobrzeski, Vanessa Winship, George Georgiou, Roger Ballen, Andrei Polikanov, Yuri Kozirev, Michael Ackerman, Marcos Lopez, Claudine Doury, Arno Rafael Minkkinen, David Bate, Jodi Bieber, Phil Toledano, Hellen van Meene, Christian Caujolle, Bas Vroege, Hans van der Meer, Todd Hido, Elina Brotherus, Simon Norfolk, Rafal Milach and many others. The unique format of the event makes close interaction between all the participants an integral part of the outcome.

ISSP is about practice-based learning – each of the students has to complete an individual photography project within the subject of his/her workshop, working in close interaction with their tutor and workshop colleagues. The week is concluded with the opening of the group exhibition and an open-air screening of the final works in Kuldīga.

ISSP is a non-commercial event, created to support the advancement of talented young photographers from Latvia and the region and to promote international networking among photographers around the world. The participant’s fees are kept as low as possible and a number of subsidies are available for qualified participants from Latvia and neighboring countries. The working language of the ISSP is English. We appreciate all kinds of diversity in the student body – young professionals and artists from near and far are encouraged to apply!

If you have a serious relationship with photography as a chosen profession or artistic practice, and wish to bring it to a new level through a concentrated learning experience, meeting colleagues from all over the world, ISSP is for you!

For more information see here.