Vietnam: Exploring the Travel Narrative
The Mekong Delta Region, Vietnam
Level One / Two: Beginning Skills Building & Narrative Storytelling
Dates: April 3 - 16, 2011
Cost: $4329
Please contact our office for itinerary and travel information.
- Hotels, in-country transportation, guides and meals included with tuition
- Personal portfolio reviews with lead instructors and Momenta staff
- Student handbooks & digital copies of handouts
- Regular slideshows, lectures and group critiques
- Daily mentoring and story development editing
- Voluntary multimedia instruction for interested attendees
- Custom lectures on narrative storytelling, elements of photography, and history of documentary photography
- Special Instructional lecture on Photo Mechanic and photo asset archiving
- Final night slideshow & party hosted by Momenta for attendees & special guests
Join Pulitzer Prize nominated photojournalist Barbara L Salisbury and Momenta Founder documentarian Seth Butler as we travel to the heart of the Mekong Delta during the most vivid time of the year in this South East Asian country. Vietnam will be a welcoming host as we explore a world of saturated color, hushed pagodas and markets teaming with life in monsoon light.
If you've ever wanted to do more than simply take travel snapshots on vacation or assignment, this workshop will help you develop a style and vision that is purely your own. With our well-traveled in-country guides and award winning staff, you will explore busy city streets, radiant temples, cerulean beaches and the quiet waterways of the Delta. These locations and more will serve as a colorful canvas on which to construct a visual and audio narrative of travel through the Mekong region alongside its inhabitants.
Starting from the exciting and bustling city of Ho Chi Minh, we will explore the creation of narrative travel essays with a documentary approach. With a custom crafted itinerary designed solely for Momenta, we will journey off the beaten path to find adventures rich in cultural diversity and filled with vibrant personalities, visiting locations most tourists don't get to witness. Our instructors and staff will help students author a visual narrative that will tell the story of this captivating Asian country.
Attendees will receive one-on-one editing and hands-on instruction from our workshop staff each day while being given daily photographic "assignments" to hone an individual approach and quickly overcome weaknesses. If you are a more intermediate photographer, we will help you craft projects to further define your photography and take your personal vision to the next level.
Participants may also choose to capture audio to accompany their photo stories. It is our aim to help ambitious and aspiring photographers transcend the use of their camera as the sole recording device and explore all the story-telling potentials using various tools and concepts.
The tuition fees include all workshop related costs including: hotel accommodations, in country travel and meals where indicated on the itinerary, daily one-on-one access to an instructor, personalized portfolio reviews, all handouts and workshop materials, daily slideshows and lectures, software and equipment training. The workshop fees do not include international airfare, early arrival or late departure accommodations, visa fees (if applicable), travel insurance, medical costs, meals not indicated on the itinerary, items of personal nature including phone calls, laundry, soft drinks, alcohol, etc.
About your Instructors
Barbara L. Salisbury is a freelance video and still photographer based in our nation's capital. With over a decade of political and daily news coverage, Barbara's work covers a wide range of both national and international topics. She regularly covers stories at the White House, on political campaigns and recently, she has begun working with nonprofits and NGOs in both the US and abroad.
Seth Butler has trained approximately 300 students in his career, many of whom have gone onto professional careers as photographers. Currently a freelance photojournalist based in New England, he has worked as a photo editor and art director in the industries of publishing and advertising and his personal work is privately collected around the world.
Learn more about your instructors by visiting Our Instructors page.
For More Information
Please email our offices for an itinerary and information about this workshop at info@momentaworkshops.com. You may also reach Director of Workshops Jamie Rose between the hours of 9:30 a.m - 5 p.m. EST, Monday through Friday at 202.203.8758. We look forward to working with you on this very exciting workshop!