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Monthly LIVE Q&A's with Sebastian Liste
Sebastian is a great teacher, a great photographer, and a brilliant, beautiful person. He's that kind of person you know you can learn a lot from. He knows how to convey passion, and after those first months within the Collective, I can honestly say that I've started to focus better on my work, especially on what concerns my long-term projects, and how I have to approach magazines; photo-editors, etc... Also, thanks to the Collective, I met other very interesting photographers and people with a soul to deal with.
Andrea Petrosino
I came to Sebastian training with what I considered a sturdy background in visual storytelling after years of working as a journalist and television producer. I think the emphasis Sebastian put on suggesting that people think of why they are doing what they are doing is key -this insight is- much more personal and intimate. His teachings are instructive in that they offer specific, concrete references, which makes them very prescriptive. The same goes for the editing sessions. I got the insight that "a bunch of pretty pictures" is just not enough, now I feel like there is so much more work for me to do than I thought when I began. There is a bigger picture and a broader vernacular that I have only glimpsed.
Michelle Gagnon
Choosing to enroll in your training was the wisest choice I have made this year! Your vision of the world and your humanity are helping me a lot, thanks to your enthusiasm I was able to continue and go deeper into a work that I have been doing for a long time, the one with my daughters. Every now and then I reread the notes I took during your lessons and I find that there are really wonderful ideas on how to construct the work, to make it clear in my head, to think about what I really want to say, to whom (even if this part is still a bit fuzzy), how, thinking about before, during and after, doing research, really connecting with the people in front of you...in short, working seriously and passionately to arrive at a result that satisfies me!
Caterina Suzzi
Your training and the open discussions have helped me take a clearer look at my work, engage even more intensively with others' work and with my permanent learning process. Watching your review of another student’s portfolio, your comments remarks, and how you edited it had an inspiring effect on me and gave me a powerful motivational push. I feel even more motivated and pushed not to give up and work even harder on my personal Visual Voice.
Marcel Mayer
The collective is one of the strongest pillars in building and finding own unique voice and visual language. It has narrowed down the chaos and allowed me to look beyond documenting & reporting. It has given me a mental and creative space where it unlocks doors to creativity and allows me to imagine. Being in this profession, you are always circled by questions and self-doubts, and it is very important that you are guided by such a collective as it nurtures you and amplifies your voices and thought-process from day-to-day. The collective doesn’t teach us what to see rather;, it educates us on how to see so that we find and reflect as we grow and nurture the mind and visual literacy. I have started noticing many differences within my approach and documenting in the field after months of in-depth training. It taught us how to tell stories that are important and close to our hearts. It has cultivated the power of visual language and enabled us to find our own unique voice and art of storytelling. It has further elevated my professional development, and it continues to do so.
Masood Sarwer