Focus Group
Art and Sustainability: Nature
Focus Group Description Art often steps into difficult territory when it addresses environmental urgency. In this focus group, Christian Houge leads a thoughtful discussion on how art can open dialogue around sustainability without reducing complex issues to slogans or simple messages. The conversation asks how artists can raise awareness while still leaving space for reflection […] ...
Nature Documentary Filmmaking
Focus Group Description Nature documentary filmmaking often looks exciting from the outside, but the work demands patience, resilience, and difficult choices. In this focus group, Abraham Joffe leads an open conversation about what it really takes to build a career in this field. He draws on lived experience rather than theory, and he invites participants […] ...
Be in control of your work
Focus Group Description Strong photographs come from clear decisions, not from chance or automation. In this focus group, Morten Qvale leads a practical discussion on how technical understanding gives photographers real control over their images. The session connects analogue thinking with digital practice and shows why fundamentals still matter. First, we will look at how […] ...
People in the Frame: Bringing Architecture to Life
Focus Group Description Architecture photography shifts the moment a person enters the scene. So this focus group looks closely at how people change scale, mood, story, and the viewer’s sense of space. We will work from images and observation, and then we will move into clear, practical choices photographers make on location. First, we will […] ...
Emerging Photojournalists
Focus Group Description The path into photojournalism looks very different today than it did even a decade ago. In this focus group, Carol Allen Storey leads a direct conversation about the realities emerging photojournalists now face, from financial pressure and safety concerns to changing ideas of credibility and authorship. The session focuses on lived experience […] ...
Is AI Just Evolution?
Focus Group Description Artificial intelligence has pushed itself into everyday photography conversations. It tends to polarise people fast. So this focus group makes room for a direct, practical discussion: is AI simply the next step in how images get made, or does it undermine authorship, labour, and copyright? The aim is not to land on […] ...
Questions Without a Brief
Focus Group Description This focus group puts students at the centre of the conversation. Instead of following a fixed topic, the session responds directly to what participants want to explore. That could be creative process, personal direction, technology, or doubts that rarely fit into structured talks. The goal is simple: create space for honest questions […] ...
How Photography Can Heal
Focus Group Description Photography can become something far deeper than documentation when it enters spaces of grief, loss, and transformation. This focus group opens an intimate and thoughtful discussion on how personal documentary work can help process difficult experiences while preserving meaning and connection. Using lived experience as a starting point, the conversation centres on […] ...
Photography in Cold Climates
Focus Group Description Photographing in polar and subpolar regions pushes both equipment and decision making to their limits. This focus group looks directly at the problems photographers face when working in extreme cold, from technical failure and physical risk to ethical responsibility in fragile environments. The discussion centres on practical experience rather than ideal conditions. […] ...
Turning Travel into a Sustainable Practice
Focus Group Description Travel photography often starts with curiosity and movement. However, a lasting career needs structure, strategy, and the ability to adapt when the market shifts. In this focus group, Richard I’Anson leads a practical discussion on the business of travel photography. He draws directly from his own career. The session keeps theory to […] ...
Beyond One Exposure
Focus Group Description Photography has always involved choices, and those choices shape what people believe. So this focus group opens a clear discussion around one question: what does manipulation really mean today? We will track how manipulation has evolved, from darkroom experiments and in camera multiple exposure through to digital editing and AI generated imagery. […] ...
Documenting Haiti’s Gang War
Focus Group Description Covering a city shaped by prolonged violence demands more than technical skill. So this focus group opens a direct discussion on what it takes to work inside Haiti’s gang controlled capital. This discussion spans many years, not just moments of crisis. The conversation draws on long term experience and focuses on how […] ...