Spend a day with Shane Taylor (@heroesforsale) & Wesley Verhoeve (@wesley) learning street photography skills, clarifying your own creative voice and putting it to action in a project.
It doesn't matter where you are in your practice. What matters is that you care about street photography and want to do something meaningful with it.
Shane leads the first teaching session, covering useful skills, and tips for taking street photos. Followed by a lesson 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.
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 street photography session walking through London 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.
We're holding the workshop at The Zetter Bloomsbury, in the heart of literary London and one of the best areas in the capital to shoot.
The morning and afternoon teaching sessions take place inside the hotel. After lunch, we step outside into Bloomsbury and the surrounding streets for the outdoor street photography lesson with Shane & Wes.
"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."