A focused day with Shane Taylor & Wesley Verhoeve to define what you're trying to say with your photography and build a plan.
Most photographers reach a point where technical skill is no longer the problem. The problem is clarity: what am I actually trying to make, and why? This workshop is built for that moment.
It doesn't matter where you are in your practice. What matters is that you care about photography and want to do something meaningful with it.
Each day is the same workshop. Choose the date that works for you. 15 places per day. Overflow will go on a Waitlist.
Most workshops leave you feeling energised but vague. This one ends with something concrete: a written project roadmap built around your voice, shaped by feedback from Wesley, Shane, and your fellow photographers.
What you do with it is yours to decide: a photo series, a zine, a book, an exhibition, or simply a body of work you've been circling for years and never started.
A clear sense of your photographic perspective: what you see, what you keep returning to, what makes your work yours.
A defined project concept with scope, subject matter, and the visual and emotional territory you'll explore.
Concrete next steps with a timeline. Not a vague list of intentions, but an actual plan you can follow from tomorrow.
Fourteen other photographers who are working on something that matters to them. Real connections made in a small room over a long day.
The morning is about excavation. Shane leads exercises and conversations designed to draw out what's already there in your work: the recurring subjects, the instinctive gestures, the emotional territory you keep returning to without realising it. Most photographers already have a voice. They just haven't named it yet.
The afternoon moves from voice to action. Drawing on his experience mentoring 100+ photographers with his Process Newsletter, and his 3 years as Curator at Large at The International Center of Photography in New York, Wesley helps you shape that voice into a project with real direction and actionable steps.
We break for a communal lunch together. Informal conversations, new connections, the kind of exchange that only happens when fifteen people who care about the same things sit down together.
An outdoor group session walking through the city with your camera and fourteen other photographers, each with a clearer sense of what they're looking for.
Wesley has spent fifteen years at the intersection of photography and curatorial practice. As Curator at Large at the International Center of Photography in New York, one of the world's foremost photography institutions, he curated over 90 exhibitions and worked directly with hundreds of photographers on developing personal bodies of work. He now brings that experience to mentoring photographers through his newsletter Process, helping people move from a point of view to a finished project.
Shane is an Irish photographer, known for a style of candid street photography that explores the hidden romance and poetry found in everyday city life. He is co-founder and editor-in-chief of Framelines Magazine, a street photography magazine and has worked with 70+ of the most prominent names in street photography, including Garry Winogrand, Daniel Arnold, Matt Stuart, Melissa O'Shaughnessy and more. Shane brings an editorial eye honed by evaluating thousands of images across ten issues of Framelines to his workshops and portfolio reviews.
"At no point did I feel as though I was dreaming too big or extending myself beyond my skill set. I have never felt more motivated to work on a personal project."
"We built practical steps forward for my book, in narrative themes, format, and priorities. But more than that, he helped me with mindset and getting out of my own way to let the project flourish."
"Wesley's session helped me find two project ideas. More than that, it helped me silence the voices telling me I wasn't good enough as a photographer."