Masterclass

Combine taking amazing photos in Venice just at the right time with the best light, while exploring the historic city by walking on and off the beaten path. Enjoy all the attention on you alone in a private photography workshop, with the promise of skyrocketing your photography skills while capturing memorable photos and discovering the less visited and more local parts of Venice.

Any skill level is welcome, from beginners to advanced photographers – and it doesn’t matter at all what camera you have, digital or manual, pinhole, high-end or snapshot. This photography course will be tailored just for you. For an availability request please click the contact button in the bottom left of your screen.

Venice will always have a special place in my heart, having lived in this water-bound city for many years and having started my photography workshop endeavors here. Venice, an island without cars but water roads, a chaotic network of narrow alleys opening into generous spaces where life unfolds, with its resilience of adapting to the odds of being built on a swamp, with people rushing by foot to get their duties done but always having time to stop for a drink when bumping into a friend. The way Venice operates – must operate – challenges our common understanding of how cities should be designed.

In a city without cars everything is different: the rhythm, the social fabric, people’s needs and desires; the perception of distance and time, as well as the smell and the sound in the alleys. Here, the echo of footsteps, there, the melody of splashing water from dancing boats; porters shouting in the far while unloading supplies from the boats, squeaking laundry lines with fine shirts of bankers, striped uniforms of gondoliers, and quirky socks of students moving across the alleys for publicly drying in the sun. At the right time in the right place Venice is an experience for all senses.

My favorite time is getting you out before sunrise when town is still sleeping. Silence, waiting for the light to rise, capture a few postcard-classics with marvelous blue hour skies, wander along canals and through alleys into local neighborhoods where the window blinds start to open. Venetians wake up and prepare for the day, rush to the vaporetto or jump into their private boat, or head to a kiosk for the morning paper, grab a coffee, shop in the market, and have a chat with neighbors in the streets. Plenty of opportunities for beautiful moments to capture.

This photography workshop will be tailored to best improve your personal photography skills. Do you prefer to focus more on photo technique or framing, developing an eye for the surrounding, or all of that together? Tell me your ideas or let go and follow my guidance. The six-hour workshop can be arranged all in a row or (preferably) split in half for best light: three hours in the morning and three in the evening.

If you opt for the full day workshop, starting before dawn and wrapping up when it is dark in the night, be prepared for an exhausting challenge but also an unforgettable experience. Either way, you will take home great photos for your memories and walls – and you will give your photography skills a boost.

Just to make sure we are on the same page: This photography course is not a sightseeing tour and will not be designed to check all the monuments of Venice. We will stick to the outdoors and not visit museums or churches. We will concentrate on the daily life in the streets, beautiful places, and special locations where concepts of one or another photo technique can be learned best. This workshop is all about photography.

Please first request availability of your favored dates via the contact button in the bottom left corner of your screen. You will have the option to contact me via email, WhatsApp, and many other communication platforms. Usually, I recommend booking a workshop in the first days of your stay in Venice. Not only will you shoot better photos but also you might benefit from better understanding the city during the remainder of your stay.

After your preferred date is confirmed and your workshop booked, we will be in contact to figure out what exactly your style of photography is, what your goal of the workshop is, what you already know and where we can improve. Or you can also give me the lead and I will figure out myself on the spot once we meet in Venice. Either way, in the end you will have a highly personalized photography workshop experience tailored to serve exactly your skills and ideas, and your style of shooting.

Please let me know:

What would you like to learn or focus on (photo technique, framing, black and white, etc)?

bring up to three friends for free

Fees include photography tuition. The workshop will take place outdoors only, therefore no entry fees apply.
Fees do not include your travel expenses, your accommodation, or replacing photography equipment forgotten at home or in the hotel. Please bring your own photography equipment including backup cards/film and batteries to last for a day of intense shooting. Running out of battery power or memory space during a workshop will not result in a refund.

The booking can be canceled until 30 days before the workshop with full refund.

Enjoy the luxury of a private photography masterclass at any location in the world, wherever you get inspired most. Instead of you coming to me, I will come to you – or to any place you always wanted to spend time with your camera; be it in your favorite city or landscape, be it domestically or abroad. Or, if you don’t have much time for holidays, we can simply meet in your hometown.

Whatever location you choose, you will enjoy a masterclass photography course fully tailored to your personal skills, needs, and wishes, all in your favored setting. With being able to focus on just you instead of a diverse group of photographers, your photography skills will skyrocket within hours. For an availability request, please click the contact button in the bottom left of your screen.

But a workshop anywhere, doesn’t that mean I will not know any more about the place than you? How could I guide you then? It’s different. If you want to re-shoot iconic photos you have seen on Instagram or in travel magazines, then a local guide will serve you best. They will instruct you, where to stand at which time and what camera settings to use. Boring, right?

In my opinion the where and when of a photography masterclass is less important than the how. I want you to learn how to know what you want, how to prepare for a shooting, how to see, how to approach a location, how to translate your personal vision into settings of your camera. And finally, I hope you will manage to capture your own version of any place in the future, giving your photos a personal meaning instead of creating a mere copy of others.

Photography, in my eyes, means learning to feel an environment; it is about figuring out the qualities of a place and its people, telling a story, your story, their story, with a subjective eye and angle. In the masterclass we will approach your chosen place together, from preparation upfront to navigating the reality on the ground. Together, we will find the stories and discuss how to translate them into interesting photography.

During the workshop we will go over your photos and check for strengths and weaknesses, improve camera settings, techniques, angles, and framing, as well as learn some tips and tricks. In the end, you will take home amazing images of what you care about, taken on your own with plenty of newly learned skills, telling your very own story of your chosen place. This masterclass will be a day you will never forget.

Please first request availability of your favored dates via the contact button in the bottom left corner of your screen. You will have the choice to contact me via email, WhatsApp, and many other communication platforms.

To ensure a highly personalized photography masterclass experience tailored to serve exactly your skills and ideas, please let me know:

Any duration of your liking

bring up to three friends for free

Fees include photography tuition. The workshop will take place outdoors only, therefore no entry fees apply.
Fees do not include your travel expenses, your accommodation, or replacing photography equipment forgotten at home or in the hotel. Please bring your own photography equipment including backup cards/film and batteries to last for a day of intensive shooting. Running out of battery power or memory space during a workshop will not result in a refund.

The booking can be canceled until 30 days before the workshop with full refund.