​Berlin & Hamburg 2025
Nine Day Photography Workshop
We’re very excited that Berlin and Hamburg will be the destinations of our Spring, 2025 photography workshop. Over nine days and nights we'll have the opportunity to immerse ourselves in two of Germany's most dynamic cities.
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In addition, we've scheduled this workshop to coincide with the European Month of Photography, a fantastic international image-based festival with exhibitions, talks and events going on throughout Berlin. This festival is a true celebration of photography and image-based media (books!).
More about EMOP is on the details page.
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For inquiries, please email:
​Contrasts & Confluence
​Hamburg
Nearly as cool as Berlin but with a very different atmosphere, we’ll spend two days shooting on the streets of Hamburg. A beautiful port city with a thriving cultural scene, Hamburg is off the radar, a surprising gem waiting to be discovered.
The city is defined by its relationship with two bodies of water: the Elbe River and Alster lake. The promenade on the southern edge of the lake is a fantastic spot to shoot, with a stepped terrace rising from the waterfront toward a boulevard featuring elegant century-old buildings.
Hamburg has sprawling outdoor markets along the Elbe, alongside the gorgeous glass-roofed Altona Fischauktionshalle. This is where Hamburg’s night and day converge, with a mix of vendors selling everything from pike to pineapple, to all night party people leaving the clubs. This location is sure to be a photo-rich environment.
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Hamburg boasts the world’s largest model railway, Miniatur Wunderland, which is epic in both scale and creativity, spread over two floors of an old warehouse in the Speicherstadt. Like Hamburg itself, Wunderland is simultaneously beautiful, impressive and lots of fun.
A two-hour high speed train will take us back to Berlin, where we’ll spend our last two days continuing to shoot, visiting exhibitions and, most importantly, presenting our work to the group. Our last evening is always reserved for final presentations and celebratory drinks and dinner.
​Photography Festival
Dan and I have planned this workshop to coincide with the European Month of Photography taking place throughout Berlin, which showcases a wide range of exhibitions and events on historic and contemporary photography. We know you'll benefit from the hands-on immersive experience our workshop provides, and also from being exposed to other image-makers from around the world.
We believe that turning you on to storytellers and artists you may not be familiar with is hugely beneficial to your own practice. During our stay in Berlin we’ll attend festival exhibitions and talks which will fuel and energize your work. We’re taking you on a deep dive into the capital of freedom and culture, supported by the city-wide love of photography, while working with each of you on your own creative endeavors.
​Berlin
It’s impossible not to be captivated by Berlin’s energy, vibrance and creativity. A city like no other, Berlin is a modern metropolis with a fascinating cultural landscape, with monuments to its tumultuous past everywhere. We’ve chosen this environment for its rich history and storytelling potential.
On foot and via Berlin’s incredible maze of U-Bahns, we’ll visit the city’s diverse neighborhoods, including Mitte, Kreuzberg, Charlottenburg, Neukolln and Schoenberg. We’ll check out Checkpoint Charlie, Templehofer Feld—an abandoned airport turned gigantic park—the Reichstag and the Brandenberg Gate, widely considered to be Berlin's most iconic landmark, a shining symbol of freedom and reunification after four decades of Cold War division. If time allows, we'll also make a trip to the iconic Bauhaus.
This will be a workshop filled with the rich photographic and cultural opportunities Berlin is known for, including its thriving food and drink scene.
Details & Pricing
This nine-day itinerary is crafted to offer you the most comfortable, high-end creative and cultural experience, including carefully selected hotels, inns, restaurants and transportation. The price is (nearly) all inclusive, highly personal, and led by two dedicated instructors, Elena and Dan.
Berlin & Hamberg Itinerary
What's Included:​
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Price reflects standard single accommodation in good hotels
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All breakfasts and 6 dinners
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Trains & metros during week
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Guides and entrance fees
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Pre-workshop notes and logistical assist
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Post-workshop Zoom review (group)
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Access to Dan & Elena (all day)
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Partner rate furnished upon request *
What's Excluded:
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Airfare from home country
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Airport transfers
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Travel and medical insurance
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Any fees or charges that you incur as a result of you canceling this trip once you have made a reservation
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Expenses for alternate arrival/departure
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Alcohol other than beer or wine at dinner
*First Meet:
*Introductions & dinner, 5 PM, 1 March
*Last Meet:
Breakfast, 9 March
- Returning participants receive a 5% discount
- Those who pay in full before 1 September, 2024 receive a 5% discount
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If you choose to pay with a credit card there will be a 3% processing fee
For more information, payment options and other questions, please email directly
Tirana
The capital, with a population of over half a million and growing more cosmopolitan with new restaurants, shops, and galleries joining the almost surrealist pastiche of testaments to the city’s past. Here, eras collide. We’ll visit Skanderbeg Square, recently renovated with new fountains and rosy granite paving, and home to an 18th-century mosque and minaret, a domed Albanian Orthodox church, a set of government buildings that echo the fascist architecture of Mussolini’s Italy and a Brutalist monolith that houses the National Historical Museum. We'll see the newly opened Secret Surveillance Museum and Bunk’Art, Dictator Hoxha’s five-story underground nuclear bunker.
We’ll spend the first two nights at the centrally located Rogner, an extremely comfortable hotel with a pool and spa.