Margarita Mavromichalis and I will offer our New York City Neighborhood Workshop on May 2-4 with a fourth day (perhaps two weeks afterwards) for discussion and critique of the images made during the weekend. This fourth day will be agreed upon by all the participants.
The first NYC Photo Workshop was initiated in 2013 at the request of several of my students, and all have been quite wonderful and successful. I love New York City, I will always live here, know it well but can always learn more about it, and have found the workshops to be very exciting and worthwhile.
The workshop is a tourist-free excursion to many of the interesting and unusual neighborhoods of New York City and should be an enlightening and even challenging experience of one of the greatest cities of the world.
During our time together, we would like to emphasize portfolio building. While one can’t adequately produce a portfolio in a few days, Margarita and I will discuss working on long term projects and try to help everyone find a project or add to existing projects that deal with people, neighborhoods, architecture, events, and spaces/places.
''Thanks Harvey for a fun workshop shooting the real New York area, in all its diversity and colors. I enjoyed the workshop with everyone very much as well as walking and discovering places I'd never been to. It all felt fast and intense though overall, pleasantly so. ''
- Manuela Amzallag, photographer, 2023 New York Photo Workshop participant.
Man in Harlem, from the book Harlem Street Portraits © Harvey Stein
Friday-Sunday, May 2-May 4 with a fourth day (probably two weeks after the workshop) for a zoom discussion and critique of images made during the weekend, date to be agreed upon by all the participants.
WHERE: New York City for great photography of its people, neighborhoods and architecture.
WHAT: Photographing New York City Friday, Saturday and Sunday. WE WILL PHOTOGRAPH SEVERAL NEW LOCATIONS, such possible places as the Lower East Side, Harlem, 9/11 Memorial, the Brooklyn Bridge and area, Washington Square Park in Manhattan; Williamsburg, Bushwick, Sunset Park, Dumbo and Coney Island in Brooklyn; Flushing, Corona and Jackson Heights in Queens; and a parade or event. Exact locations depend on the weather, class interests, and what events are occurring that weekend.
WHAT WILL WE DISCUSS: Ways of approaching people (friends and strangers) and getting them to agree/cooperate, ways of directing strangers, capturing character and emotions, making meaningful as opposed to obvious images, knowing when your photos are successful, use of fill flash during the day, developing a portfolio and longer-term photo projects (the conceiving, creating and marketing of our work). We will critique each day’s shoot on a fourth day to be determined, and look at personal approaches to photography.
HOW MUCH/REGISTRATION: $800: Tuition includes a Harvey Stein photobook, most recent is Coney Island People 50 Years ($50 retail). Payment can be made by check to Harvey Stein or use of Venmo (contact me for my Venmo address). If a check is mailed, send to Harvey Stein, 755 West End Avenue, Apt. 10B, NY, NY 10025. We expect lots of interest so register quickly by emailing me to say you will join us, email hsteinfoto@aol.com The workshop is a rain or shine event. If the workshop is canceled due to unforeseen circumstances you will receive a full refund.
LOGISTICS: Meet at 10am Friday, May 2nd. Location to be announced. Bring digital cameras, flash would be useful but is optional.
HOW MANY: Maximum of 10 students, minimum of 6.
WHO: I will be partnering with Margarita Mavromichalis for this workshop.
QUESTIONS: hsteinfoto@aol.com
MARGARITA MAVROMICHALIS speaks five languages and studied translation and interpreting. She likes to think that photography is her second language, as it’s a universal language, one that is understood by all across the world and that it conveys messages in the most powerful way. Margarita moved to New York in 2009. She continued her studies for three years at the International Center of Photography where she also served as a teaching assistant for several classes. In 2014 she moved back to Greece where she devoted most of her work to covering the refugee crisis as it developed on the island of Lesvos. She currently works in Tokyo. Margarita is mostly attracted to street photography and the elements that evoke emotions and surprise in our every-day life. She is passionate about documenting current events that she feels very strongly about, highlighting their social impact. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of the City of New York and the Brooklyn Historical Society. She has exhibited in New York, Boston, and San Diego and most recently in Budapest, Athens, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, London and Tokyo. She has been published by the Wall Street Journal and the Huffington Post; her work is also featured in numerous photo publications including teNeues, Prestel, and Hoxton Mini Press. She is the winner of the Pollux Awards (2016), the Julia Margaret Cameron Awards (2018 and 2020), finalist at the Miami Street Photography Festival (2018 and 2020), was nominated for the 2019 Prix Pictet Hope Award and won the 15th edition of the Julia Margaret Cameron Award (2020). In 2021, she won a Gold Medal at the Budapest International Foto Awards, and a Silver Medal at the Prix de la Photographie Paris. In 2023, Margarita was nominated for the prestigious Leica Oscar Barnack Award. View Margarita’s work at
www.margaritamavromichalis.com and on Instagram
@tita_mavro
HARVEY STEIN is a long-time faculty member at The International Center of Photography and also teaches at the Los Angeles Center of Photography. He has taught at The School of Visual Arts, Parsons, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Drew University. For the past 13 years (except for 2020), he has conducted three travel photo workshops a year to such places as Italy, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Argentina, Southeast Asia, India, China and Greece; he lectures on photography worldwide. He has been the Director of Photography at Umbrella Arts Gallery since 2009 until 2019 when it closed due to losing its lease. Stein has had 91 solo exhibitions and has participated in over 170 group shows. Stein’s tenth and latest book Coney Island People 50 Years was published in September of 2022. Other books of Stein’s photographs are Parallels: A Look at Twins, E.P. Dutton (1978); Artists Observed, Harry Abrams, Inc. (1986); Coney Island, W.W. Norton, Inc. (1998); Movimento: Glimpses of Italian Street Life, Gangemi Editore, Rome (2006); Coney Island 40 Years, Schiffer Publishing, (2011); Harlem Street Portraits, Schiffer Publishing (2013); Briefly Seen New York Street Life, Schiffer Publishing (2015); Mexico Between Life and Death, Kehrer Verlag (Germany, 2018), and Then and There: Mardi Gras 1979, Zatara Press (2020) . Stein’s work exists in over 58 public collections; he is represented by Sous Les Etoiles Gallery in NYC. View some of Harvey’s photographs at
www.harveysteinphoto.com and on Instagram
@stein.harvey
