The Event

Location:
Focus on the Story Festival
Washington, DC

Dates:
Wednesday, May 29, 2019
9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m

Cost:
$225 for the workshop
(Festival pass also required)

Limited Enrollment:
30 Students

#PhotoBizSkills: Marketing

presented at the Focus on the Story festival

This exclusive workshop will help you create a funding plan for your dream projects. Our business skills curriculum is the cornerstone of the Momenta Workshops model. With our lectures, panel discussion, handouts, and guided question-and-answer sessions, you will join a group of like-minded photographers to explore nonprofit business models. Please note: seating is limited for this workshop to ensure the intimate nature of the group discussions.

A One-Day Business Skills Bootcamp.

A full day of guided lectures, business discussions, and a panel discussion
How to market your business and find new clients
Relevant topics for working photographers to help their bottom line thrive

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Get Ready to Grow your Business.

The Logistics

As part of the Focus on the Story festival, this workshop covers an in-depth approach to putting your best foot forward. During this in-depth seminar, you will learn the ins-and-outs for funding your dream project.

Finding new clients, creating effective marketing campaigns, negotiating contracts…. These are just some of the necessary skills photographers need to thrive in today’s competitive marketplace. During this full day seminar, COO Jamie Rose will present Momenta Workshops’ highly popular #PhotoBizSkills presentations on marketing.

The seminar includes in-depth presentations covering social media, websites, branding design, networking, presenting your work in person, interviewing, and much more. With plenty of audience participation and Q&A opportunities, Jamie will offer ways each attendee can make the most of their limited free time to find new and better paying clients, increase revenue, and grow your business every year.

Laptops or paper for note taking are highly recommended. Workshop perks include coffee and donuts during the morning meet-n-greet, digital handouts, and a panel discussion on techniques that work.

Join us for this perfect mixture of inspiration, information, and business practices. Every level of photographer will be able to grow and expand their knowledge on how to creatively market their business.

What To Expect

Lecture #1: Know your marketplace & Personalize your Portfolio
Lecture #2: Finding & Building A Strong Client Base
Lecture #3: Successful contracts & negotiating start to finish
Lecture #4: How to keep the momentum going
Guest Panel: join in the lively discussion as Jamie interviews 2 successful DC-based photographers
Topics Covered: portfolios + presentations; contracts, copyright, hiring, collaborating, skills building, networking, social media, outreach, in-person meeting success; and so much more!

Join Focus on the Story & Momenta for “#PhotoBizSkills: Marketing”!

Register here

Meet the Panelists & Instructors!

Click through the tabs below to read all the bios.

Jamie Rose

Jamie Rose will be leading this workshop on behalf of Momenta and Wildfire Media, a nonprofit dedicated to documentary storytelling. Her early career was spent in the halls of power as a Press Corps photojournalist covering Capitol Hill and the White House, primarily as a contractor for The New York Times.

Her passion for working with nonprofits led her to documentary coverage of humanitarian crises in Africa, South America, and the Middle East. Her clients included organizations such as Doctors Without Borders, The Calvert Foundation, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria, & Tuberculosis, and Physicians for Human Rights among others.

In 2011, Jamie was awarded the United Nations’ IPC’s Photographers Leadership Award. She has also won an Award of Excellence by The Alexia Foundation, and the prestigious White House News Photographers’ Association Project Grant for her portfolio of nonprofit health care providers in East Africa. In 2008, she helped to co-found Momenta, which taught more than 700 photographers during 54 workshops on 5 continents.

Jamie is considered an expert in nonprofit photography and business development. She has been featured by Photo District News (PDN), News Photographer Magazine, and numerous online publications about the importance of nonprofit documentary photography. She received her Master’s Degree in photojournalism from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University and her bachelor’s degree from American University.

Our Panelists

Our guest panel will be announced on our blog and social media channels as we get closer to the workshop. Stay tuned!

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The Event

Location:
Focus on the Story Festival
Washington, DC

Dates:
Thursday, May 30, 2019
9:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m

Cost:
$225 for the workshop
(Festival pass also required)

Limited Enrollment:
30 Students

Register here

Get Funded: Financing Projects

presented at the Focus on the Story festival

This exclusive workshop will help you create a funding plan for your dream projects. Our business skills curriculum is the cornerstone of the Momenta Workshops model. With our lectures, panel discussion, handouts, and guided question-and-answer sessions, you will join a group of like-minded photographers to explore nonprofit business models. Please note: seating is limited for this workshop to ensure the intimate nature of the group discussions.

A One-Day Financing Roadmap to Success.

A full day of guest speakers and captivating discussions
Lectures focus on understanding private, public, and personal funding models
Lively Q&A session on relevant topics for working photographers to grow their dream projects into reality

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Start Your Funding Roadmap.

The Logistics

As part of the Focus on the Story festival, this workshop covers real world concepts to help you create a path to success. During this in-depth seminar, you will learn the ins-and-outs for funding your dream project.

Jamie Rose, on behalf of Wildfire Media, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization dedicated to documentary storytelling, explains the 3 types of funding (Public, Private, Personal) you can use to fund your next photo or multimedia project. This full-day seminar will to help you decide which projects are worthy of doing a fundraising campaign and the approaches needed to go after each type of funding.

From writing a grant or sponsorship proposal to writing thank you notes when you’re done, this day should set you on the path to funding success. If you have a personal project in mind but need an extra boost of financing, this is the workshop for you. Laptops or paper for note taking are highly recommended. Workshop perks include coffee and donuts during the morning meet-n-greet, digital handouts, and a surprise guest speaker.

Join us for this perfect mixture of inspiration, art, and business. Every level of photographer will be able to grow and expand their knowledge on personal projects funding and success models.

What To Expect

Lecture #1: Is my project ready for a funding campaign?
Lecture #2: How to find Public, Private & Personal Funding
Lecture #3: Building A Successful Campaign Start to Finish
Guest speaker: an expert on grant writing will join Jamie for an in-depth Q&A
Topics Covered: Grant writing; successful crowdfunding approaches; corporate sponsorship; researching a personal project; international vs. domestic assignments; and so much more!

Join Focus on the Story & Momenta for “Get Funded”!

Register here

Meet the Panelists & Instructors!

Click through the tabs below to read all the bios.

Jamie Rose

Jamie Rose will be leading this workshop on behalf of Momenta and Wildfire Media, a nonprofit dedicated to documentary storytelling. Her early career was spent in the halls of power as a Press Corps photojournalist covering Capitol Hill and the White House, primarily as a contractor for The New York Times.

Her passion for working with nonprofits led her to documentary coverage of humanitarian crises in Africa, South America, and the Middle East. Her clients included organizations such as Doctors Without Borders, The Calvert Foundation, The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria, & Tuberculosis, and Physicians for Human Rights among others.

In 2011, Jamie was awarded the United Nations’ IPC’s Photographers Leadership Award. She has also won an Award of Excellence by The Alexia Foundation, and the prestigious White House News Photographers’ Association Project Grant for her portfolio of nonprofit health care providers in East Africa. In 2008, she helped to co-found Momenta, which taught more than 700 photographers during 54 workshops on 5 continents.

Jamie is considered an expert in nonprofit photography and business development. She has been featured by Photo District News (PDN), News Photographer Magazine, and numerous online publications about the importance of nonprofit documentary photography. She received her Master’s Degree in photojournalism from the Newhouse School at Syracuse University and her bachelor’s degree from American University.

Our Guest Speaker

Our guest speaker will be announced on our blog and social media channels as we get closer to the workshop. Stay tuned!

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The Journey

Location:
The Leica Store,
West Hollywood, California

Dates:
February 20 – 24, 2019

Cost:
$1750

Limited Enrollment:
~~15 Spaces Available~~
7 spaces left!

Register Today

Project Los Angeles 2019

Photographing Nonprofits

in collaboration with Leica Akademie USA

Join Momenta & Leica for a West Coast nonprofit workshop in sunny Los Angeles! We assign each student a different nonprofit or you can choose to find your own. Over the workshop, you will work with your instructors to photograph their mission. We combine nightly lectures and business skills training with daily, personal editing sessions with an instructor in one of the most diverse cities in the United States!

Scroll down this page to learn about your instructors, the details and see all the fine print.

Learn to Use your Photography to Help Deserving Nonprofits!

The nonprofits range from human rights, animal rescue, youth, job training, immigration, and homeless outreach issues.

This workshop will be held in the gorgeous WeHo Leica Store
Nightly lectures with instructors and guest lecturers
One full day of business skills & marketing lectures on Sunday
1-on-1 personalized editing for each student, every day

Be a Force of Change!

The Destination

Our nonprofit workshop in Los Angeles is quickly becoming one of our most popular. The city is alive with nonprofit activity and has a diversity of cultures like no other place in America. Last year’s workshop created outstanding imagery and multimedia products for the local nonprofits and this next workshop is shaping up to be even better!

When you register for this workshop, Momenta will assign you to a nonprofit organizations to work with in L.A. based on a questionnaire we provide to you. We encourage photographers to find their own photo story or charity of their choice. But don’t worry! If you choose this route, our staff will guide you every step of the way if you choose to find your own assignment.

Likewise, one of the best features of a Momenta Project workshop is the ability to use a camera from our sponsor, Leica Camera. You will have the opportunity to use a Leica M Camera and lens kit for your photo story on this workshop. You can also choose to take a point-n-shoot with you on your daily assignment work instead. If you have a Leica already, we may have some fun gear you’ve never tried before to use with your gear. It’s a great chance to experience documentary photography in a whole new way.

Every day of the workshop, Momenta instructors will help you develop a photo story close to your personal vision. We do this through daily 1-on-1 editing with you and an instructor for about one hour. The workshop ends with a full day of business skills training to teach you how to make this type of work a profitable business venture.

What To Expect

You will receive your own nonprofit to work with, based on feedback from our pre-workshop student questionnaire
Momenta handles all pre-workshop logistics for nonprofit assignments including introductions to each nonprofit occurring about 1-2 weeks before the workshop
Your work benefits small, local nonprofits in their need to publicize & project their activities to new audiences
Momenta presents an intensive instruction on Photo Mechanic & photo asset archiving
Nightly slideshows & group critiques combine with daily, 1-on-1 editing & instruction
Presentations including topics of narrative storytelling, elements of a photo story & history of documentary photography
Voluntary multimedia instruction & editing for interested attendees

Join Us for Project Los Angeles!

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Meet Your LA Faculty

Matt Rose

Matt Rose is an ex-Corporate suit, ex-Bartender, former United States Marine, Road Warrior, World Traveler, Image Maker, and Storyteller. His photographic goals are to change perspectives by documenting and adding to the human narrative. Matt is a graduate of The Corcoran College of Art+Design with a BFA in Photojournalism and currently enrolled in the Master of Arts program at Cal-State Northridge with a focus on Photography/Photojournalism…

Learn More about Matt Rose

Matt’s clients include Ghost Group Media, Beacon Media, Momenta Creative, Viacom, ClockShop, OutFest, Associated Press, and Griffith Park Productions. Matt is currently working on a body of work about people and their fetish and is very close to achieving the perfect pie crust. Follow Matt on Instagram at @mattrosephotography.

Dotan Saguy

Dotan Saguy was born in a small kibbutz five miles south of Israel’s Lebanese border. Dotan grew up in a diverse Parisian suburb, lived in Lower Manhattan during 9/11, and moved to Los Angeles in 2003.

Dotan’s work has been published by National Geographic, PDN, Leica Fotografie International, ABC News, has been exhibited in several galleries across Los Angeles and was awarded 1st place photo story from the nationwide Journalism Association of Community Colleges in 2016 and an honorable mention in the National Geographic Travel Photographer of the Year Award 2016…

Learn More about Dotan Saguy

In 2015, Dotan decided to focus on his lifelong passion for photography after a successful career as a high-tech entrepreneur. He is currently working on several long-term projects including an in-depth photo essay about the culture of Venice Beach and a photo documentary about the journey of people coming out of homelessness. Dotan lives in West Los Angeles with his wife and two children. You can see his work at http://www.dotansaguy.com.

Cosima Reichenbach

Cosima Reichenbach is a passionate photographer and nonprofit development expert based in Denver, Colorado. Raised in France, she studied in the United States and has since lived in Paraguay, the United Kingdom, and Côte d’Ivoire.

She earned her Bachelor’s degree with a specialization in international relations from Sarah Lawrence College and a Masters of Science in African Studies from the University of Oxford. She speaks fluent English, French, and Spanish and is teaching herself Japanese.

Learn More about Cosima Reichenbach

Cosima began her career working in international nonprofit development at the United Nations’ Department of Peacekeeping Operations in New York. Her additional international research work includes special projects at nonprofits in Africa, South America, and Asia.

Her unique expertise in research, project management, and cooperation also combines the visual communications perspective of storytelling and photo editing. In her photographic work, she is exploring the fusion of ethnographic and anthropological practices with photojournalism and documentary photography.

Cosima joined the Momenta team as our Workshops Programming Coordinator in 2017. She can be found on our domestic and international programs making sure every detail is meticulously taken into consideration so your workshop is the most memorable, successful experience. You can follow her photography on her website at http://cosimareichenbach.com/ and Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/cosimington.

Allison Zaucha

Allison Zaucha is an independent award-winning photojournalist based in Los Angeles, California. She is passionate about working on social issues with a variety of news publications and nonprofit organizations. In addition, Allison loves developing meaningful storytelling campaigns with brands and commercial clients. She uses the camera as a means of connection, empowerment and understanding…

Learn More about Allison Zaucha

…In 2016, was chosen for American Photography 32. In 2018, she was nominated for PDN’s 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch in 2018, was chosen again for American Photography 34, and received second place in NPPA’s Northern Short Course contest for portraitureAllison is an alumni NYT Eddie Adam’s Workshop, Missouri Photo Workshop as Women Photograph’s scholarship winner, a selected attendee for the New York Time’s Portfolio Review, and Momenta Workshops.

Her select clients include Cosmopolitan, The Atlantic, Broadly, Life & Thyme, Kohler, Youtube, House Beer, sweetgreen, The Wing, International Rescue Committee, Harlem Lacrosse, and Travis Manion Foundation among others. In 2018, her work was published in the commemorative historical book Together We Rise: The Official Oral History of the Women’s March by the Organizers.

You can see more of Allison’s work at www.allisonzaucha.com or on Instagram at @allisonzaucha.

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What’s Included

Workshop Fees Include: daily one-on-one editing with instructors, personal portfolio reviews, student handbook, all handouts and workshop materials, daily slideshows and lectures, software and equipment training, opening night dinner and a final celebration and slideshow provided by Momenta for the public at our headquarters at the Leica Store.

Workshop Fees Do Not Include: meals, transportation, hotel accommodations. Momenta does offer suggestions for housing and transportation deals in Los Angeles.

It’s Easy to Sign Up!

Each workshop requires a minimum deposit to reserve your place in the workshop. After you have registered for a workshop, final payments are due within 120 days of the start of the workshop. Once registered, you will receive a confirmation email from our registration partners.

As we near the start of the workshop, you will receive informational documents from our staff including a reading and research list, your final workshop itinerary, and travel guides. We work very hard to insure you are prepared in every way for this learning adventure. Our staff stands ready to answer any of your questions and to help facilitate the smoothest travel experience possible.

Equipment

We require all attending photographers to bring their own cameras, laptop and support gear like external hard drives. Our staff and instructors can offer gear recommendations and help you understand the nuances of your equipment. You will also be able check out a Leica M series camera and lenses during the workshop thanks to our friends at Leica!

We ask all photographers bring at least a digital SLR or rangefinder camera with 1-2 lenses. We encourage you to bring a lightweight tripod. Should you choose to participate in a multimedia project, you must come with a working knowledge of the required software programs and your equipment.

Please see our Resources tab at the top of the website for our gear and traveling tips suggestions.

Notes

This course is designed for people who are good natured, flexible, have a working knowledge of photography and are interested in a unique documentary photography workshop experience. We will work with each photographer to improve their photography on any level, and we will find the right theme for your vision. We will provide support every step of the way, but you need to have a positive attitude and work well with a group!

This experience is more of a photo practicum than it is a tourism trip. The educational journey will be amazing and eye opening but it is not easy. You will work long hours. Your instructors will give you daily challenges and push you to new heights with your photography. We will encourage you to stretch and think creatively.

You may encounter people or organizations that are challenging to photograph. You may have to photograph in dark rooms or outside at high noon. You may have stressful days of difficult logistics. While we will be there to help you, support you and give you insight on the best way to handle the situation as a professional, you will need to take as much responsibility for your progress as we do.

The Event

#PhotoBizSkills: Marketing

presented at the Focus on the Story festival

The Logistics

What To Expect

Join Focus on the Story & Momenta for “#PhotoBizSkills: Marketing”!

Meet the Panelists & Instructors!

Explore Our Photography & Multimedia Workshop Categories

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The Event

Get Funded: Financing Projects

presented at the Focus on the Story festival

The Logistics

What To Expect

Join Focus on the Story & Momenta for “Get Funded”!

Meet the Panelists & Instructors!

Explore Our Photography & Multimedia Workshop Categories

Sign up for our newsletter to get the latest updates.

The Journey

Project Los Angeles 2019

Photographing Nonprofits

in collaboration with Leica Akademie USA

Learn to Use your Photography to Help Deserving Nonprofits!

The Destination

What To Expect

You will receive your own nonprofit to work with, based on feedback from our pre-workshop student questionnaire

Momenta handles all pre-workshop logistics for nonprofit assignments including introductions to each nonprofit occurring about 1-2 weeks before the workshop

Your work benefits small, local nonprofits in their need to publicize & project their activities to new audiences

Momenta presents an intensive instruction on Photo Mechanic & photo asset archiving

Nightly slideshows & group critiques combine with daily, 1-on-1 editing & instruction

Presentations including topics of narrative storytelling, elements of a photo story & history of documentary photography

Voluntary multimedia instruction & editing for interested attendees

Join Us for Project Los Angeles!

Meet Your LA Faculty

<img class=" wp-image-10855 alignleft" src="https://momentaworkshops.com/wp-content/uploads/unnamed-1.jpg" alt="" width="99" height="149">Matt Rose

<img class="size-full wp-image-10118 alignleft" src="https://momentaworkshops.com/wp-content/uploads/dotan-saguy-portrait.jpg" alt="Dotan Saguy | Documentary Travel Photography, Photojournalism &amp; Multimedia Workshops" height="153" width="120">Dotan Saguy

<img class="size-full wp-image-2795 alignleft" src="https://momentaworkshops.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_8357-2.jpg" alt="Cosima Reichenbach | Documentary Travel Photography, Photojournalism &amp; Multimedia Workshops" width="120" height="153">Cosima Reichenbach

<img class="alignleft size-square wp-image-10913" src="https://momentaworkshops.com/wp-content/uploads/unnamed-3-180x180.jpg" alt="" width="180" height="180">Allison Zaucha

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