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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!
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
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
LEARN MORE
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!
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!