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©Marc Riboud. "Pékin, 1965."

Living Legend Marc Riboud, with Ken Light
March 14th, 2010 — 10:30am to 4:30pm

Description: Fotovision is very pleased to announce a special 1-day workshop and group portfolio review with French Photojournalist Marc Riboud. A close colleague and friend of Henri Cartier Bresson and Robert Capa and longtime member of Magnum. Each participant will receive feedback from Mr. Riboud. Riboud’s life in photography will be explored and he will share his life’s experiences. Everyone will benefit from the group process, and conversations about photography.

Each participant will be asked to bring a portfolio of work consisting of anywhere from 20-40 photographs. The photographs can be from one body of work, or different projects. the instructors will discuss each person’s portfolio and give advice on technique and approach. Prints or printouts should be between 8×10 and 11×14 inches. You can get really cheap work prints at Costco or some such place. Work prints or equivalent are OK—Marc and Ken are concerned with the image, not print quality. No slides please. A digital portfolio would be permitted (on external hard drive or CD/DVD) although prints are preferred.

This is an exceedingly rare visit by Mr. Riboud to California to teach and lecture and therefore, an unparalleled opportunity to learn from a true master. This workshop has been planned in conjunction with the opening of Mr. Riboud’s exhibition at the Graduate School of Journalism Gallery on Friday, March 12th. Reception from 6-7 and 7-8:30 for slides and lecture.

Location: Workshop: Fotovision Office at 5515 Doyle Street, #11, Emeryville, CA 94608
NOTE: This is a NEW location for Fotovision as of Feb 15, 2010!!

Exhibition Opening Reception and Lecture: 105 North Gate Hall, Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, Hearst & Euclid, Berkeley, CA 94704.
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Instructors: Marc Riboud was born in 1923 in Lyon, France. After World War II, during which he was active in the French Resistance, he studied engineering at the Ecole Centrale in Lyon. He worked as an industrial engineer in Lyon before teaching himself photography. In 1953, he moved to Paris where he joined the Magnum Photo agency and travelled extensively, working with Magnum founders Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa. His ability to capture fleeting moments in life through powerful compositions was already apparent, and this skill was to serve him well for decades to come. Mr Riboud served as vice-president of the Magnum Paris office from 1958 to 1975, as President for Paris and New York from 1975 to 1976 and as Chairman of the Board from 1976 to 1977. An icon of photojournalism, he has twice won the Overseas Press Club Award (1967 and 1971), and has exhibited at the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and the International Center of Photography and Metropolitan Museum in New York.

Ken Light s a social documentary photographer whose work has appeared in books, magazines and exhibitions. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts Photographers Fellowships, the Dorothea Lange Fellowship and a fellowship from the Erna and Victor Hasselblad Foundation and numerous other awards. He is adjunct professor and Director of the Center for Photography at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California Berkeley and was a founder of the International Fund for Documentary Photography and Fotovision.

Class size: 12 participants.

Cost: $185.00

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