TEXAS HILL COUNTRY
On-Location Portrait & Fashion Shoot: Mentorship for Aspiring Pros
Nikon AD/ITALY © David Alan Harvey
Our workshop is designed for working pros who want to move up or for wannabe portrait or fashion shooters.
This Texas Hill Country ranch is just outside of Austin. It is like a movie set. A chapel, a cantina, a winery, vintage cars, gracious owners.
You can work this many ways. One way is you make up a story and play it out or rather shoot it out. OR you simply make portraits on location OR you create an imaginary ad shoot OR you invent a fashion shoot. Super creative. High end high dollar fashion/ad shoot. Hands on inspiration. A whole new portfolio will emerge.
I will mentor 4 students max. I will be student number 5. I will shoot it too.
My career is documentary. Yet I have had some top line advertising shoots. I can show you how. I will tell you how to stay cool under pressure and be your own producer
I will tell you how to get the job. Mostly I will tell you how to keep the job.
A practical hands on mentoring experience. Super location, nice folks and a life changer for sure.
When: April 28 - May 2, 2025
Where: Texas Hill Country
Participants: 4 Student Limit.
Tuition: $ 4,000
Accommodation at the ranch included.
A Zoom interview and portfolio review are part of the registration.
Questions? Please email alejandra@burnmagazine.org
LAVAZZA AD/SPAIN © David Alan Harvey
WORKSHOP LOCATION
David’s workshops aren’t for the faint of heart or those who do not want to push through personal boundaries. He is part supporter, part instigator and all professional, delivering each comment at the precise moment and knowing confidently what he can get out of each student. I’ll never look through the viewfinder again without hearing his voice questioning why I’ve raised the camera at that moment and how I plan to tell the story. – Christopher Edwards
HARVEY
David Alan Harvey is a highly sought after mentor and teacher. His workshops are philosophical explorations into the heart of your work and motivation. They are about your own personal growth. A champion of authorship and voice he seeks out your personal obstacles and gives you a good shove to move yourself beyond them, then greets you with a high five and a beer on the other side. As anyone who has taken one of David’s workshops will tell you, once you take a workshop with him, you are essentially his student for life. He sticks with those who want to move ahead with their work for book publishing, gallery shows, etc. If you do the work, he will be there to help you push it forward.
WORKSHOPS
In his weeklong workshops you will be asked to shoot an essay of your own choosing. Each day you shoot, each morning there is a group review and critique session. At the end of the week his team produces a slideshow of the work created. So, in this short week you get the experience of being a working photographer, shooting, working with an editor and experiencing the pressure of a real deadline. Each workshop is different, but depending on the timing and location you may also enjoy guest teachers that include picture editors and curators, jam sessions with other iconic photographers and the occasional field trip to shoot alongside David.
"Take David's workshop if you want to stop taking tourist photos. You'll never approach photography the same way again."
- Roddy MacLeod
David’s workshops aren’t for the faint of heart or those who do not want to push through personal boundaries. He is part supporter, part instigator and all professional, delivering each comment at the precise moment and knowing confidently what he can get out of each student. I’ll never look through the viewfinder again without hearing his voice questioning why I’ve raised the camera at that moment and how I plan to tell the story. – Christopher Edwards
David is one of the most insightful & inspiring teachers I have ever had. He is demanding but cares immensely about the work of his pupils. Throughout the workshop he encouraged us to push ourselves. I achieved some of my best work in his class. – Sandra Cattaneo Adorno
David’s 2016 NYC workshop was the most incredible week for me. Not only did his guidance and opinions give my own judgement and understanding of what makes a great picture a well needed boost, we were privileged to meet some of his inspiring collaborators. I pushed my own work into new and exciting areas and upon my return to the UK, I purged my portfolio of many images I now deemed under par, surely the most telling evidence of the workshop’s effect on me. – Neil Buchan-Grant