Learn  |  Professionals  |  Workshop Vision Lab - media practice Workshop with Uwe H. Martin

Deadline for applications: 02.06.2023 

VISION LAB – How to build a sustainable media practice, reach new audiences, and initiate change

Things were great when you left school. You were full of dreams of traveling the world to write or photograph important stories, shoot notable films, leave an impression and help change the world. Yet, just a few years later, "Real Life" has crushed most of your dreams and plans. You are constantly running to keep the wheel of the media threat mill spinning: be it on your staff job where the constant cost-cutting takes away the very air to breathe, or as a freelancer where you often ship less than exciting work to keep the lights burning and the bread on the table.

Every so often, a story, a project, or a collaboration still excites you. But there are increasingly more times you think about leaving journalism, film, photography, and the creative world altogether. But you are not ready to give up yet.

This workshop is for you.

It is a wide-open, deeply personal, challenging, and hands-on Vision Lab for people who desire to develop journalism/film/photography beyond traditional limits, reach new audiences, build a sustainable media practice, and initiate change and initiate change in the world.

The workshop will cover a wide range of alternative publication- and financing strategies for documentary work. It will dive into grant writing, expert status, personal brand, and professional identity. It focuses on the long tail and explores what makes projects connectable to contexts far beyond media. At the same time, you will be developing your personal and professional vision, projects, and strategies.

In previous versions of the Vision Lab, participants have created linear web documentaries and storyboards, developed ideas on how to build a publication bridge from print, online and mobile into spacial installations and theatre plays, wrote proposals and financing plans, and developed concepts for tying individual stories into a larger narrative. Others clarified where they wanted to go professionally, identified new markets and audiences, and built a strategy for reaching them. So whether you're just starting your career, want to give it a new direction, or looking to take your project to the next level, the Vision Lab is for you.

Public : Professional photographers, professional directors, writers, journalists, students in photography/audiovisual.