travelling the Streets
$230
A street is a place full of life, activity, and drama.
This workshop is for aspiring street and travel photographers wanting to improve their skills while taking images in public places and wanting to develop their own unique photography style.
Join award-winning photographer Shehab Uddin for a transformational photographic exploration of Brisbane’s street life in this Travelling the Streets Photography Workshop. Suitable for all skill levels, this workshop is designed to inspire beginners and challenge experienced photographers alike.
The workshop will help you build your confidence and hone your skills as a roaming photographer in public places. It will maximize both your learning and shooting skills and experiences, helping you to build your unique and powerful portfolio.
Shehab will discuss traditional and contemporary street and travel photography techniques, and aesthetics, he will touch on law, and philosophies. You will learn about lenses, focus, and other tips & tricks of street photography that will improve your images.
You will also learn how to select locations, subject matter, and equipment. Shehab will teach you how to approach people on the street with confidence, how to use available light, how to react quickly to what is happening around you, and how to engage with people as your subject matter.
The Traveling the Streets workshop will see us roaming the streets of the city or Southbank, putting our newly learned theory into practice.
The workshop runs from 9 am to 12 pm
The limited number of participants, (maximum of 6 people) ensures the tutors’ adequate individual attention to every person.
Bookings close one week prior to the workshop date; we will contact you then to confirm the running of the workshop.
A full refund will be given if the workshop is canceled due to a lack of registrations, Covid-19 restrictions, or other unforeseen circumstances caused by the Centre.
- Digital camera (We will work with whichever digital camera you have)
- Your choice of lens/es
- Card/s (with enough memory)
- Fully charged batteries
- Comfortable walking shoes, water, sun protection,
- Notebook – if you’d like to take notes
The workshop is a practical street photoshoot around South Bank and/or CBD. The exact location details will be advised closer to the date.
The Tutor:
Shehab Uddin is a Brisbane based visual artist, educator, and documentary photographer from Bangladesh. He completed his Doctor of Visual Arts at the Queensland College of Art (QCA), Griffith University in 2017 and teaches photography at universities and media organisations in Australia, Bangladesh, India, and Nepal.
Uddin’s images are held in public collections in Australia and overseas and have been published regularly in major international news magazines including The New York Times and Der Spiegel. He has held exhibitions around the world and won numerous grants and awards, including Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, National Geographic, and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Shehab has global experience in street, travel and documentary photography and has conducted numerous community projects in Australia and overseas.
