David Schonauer
The Photography Masters Retreat Monday October 12, 2015
The Photography Master Retreat, a one-week professional retreat in the south of France featuring four notable mentors, will be returning for it 2016 edition next July 9-16, and it’s not too
early to start planning (and registering). The retreat is designed for professional or aspiring pro photographers in all genres. Mentors include visuals editor and curator Elisabeth Biondi;
artist-educators Katharina Bosse and Martine Fougeron: and Lyle Rexer, a critic, curator and educator. Sixteen participants will be chosen from submitted applications. Read the full Story >>
The Photography Masters Retreat Thursday April 14, 2016
The Photography Master Retreat, a one-week professional retreat in the south of France featuring four notable mentors, still has several spaces available for its 2016 run from July 9-16, which is the
week following Les Rencontres d’Arles.They will be filled first come, first served, so make your submissions soon. The mentors include curator Elisabeth Biondi; artist-educators Katharina Bosse
and Martine Fougeron: and Lyle Rexer, a critic, curator and educator. (Go
here for our AI-AP Profile of Fougeron.) Read the full Story >>
The Photography Masters Retreat Thursday December 1, 2016
The third annual Photography
Master Retreat will take place from July 8 to 15, 2017, in the south of France, just after the Arles photography festival. A select group of fourteen participants will be chosen for the retreat
from submitted applications, which are due by January 10, 2017. The retreat is held in the remote medieval hamlet of Esparon, where four acclaimed photo mentors — former New Yorker visuals
editor and curator Elisabeth Biondi; critic, curator and educator Lyle Rexer; and artist-educators Martine Fougeron and Katharina Bosse — lead an immersive experience allowing students to
rethink and refocus their work. Read the full Story >>
The Photography Masters Retreat Wednesday October 1, 2014
You can sign up now for the next edition of the Photography Master Retreat, which will take place from July 11 to 18, 2015 in the south of France. The one-week retreat is designed for 12 to 14
photographers seeking to refocus their personal and professional work under the guidance of four distinguished mentors—photo editor Elisabeth Biondi; photographers Katharina Bosse and Martine
Fougeron; and curator Lyle Rexer. A selection committee will review all applications and contact the selected applicants by December 15, 2014. Read the full Story >>
The Photographer Master Retreat Monday December 9, 2019
The Photography Master Retreat
is a one-week workshop in a beautiful hamlet in the south of France at which participants are guided by three mentors — curator, teacher and former New Yorker visuals editor Elisabeth Biondi;
critic, curator, and educator Lyle Rexer; and photographer and educator Martine Fougeron. The goal is to help established and emerging photographers refine their personal visions and reframe their
projects. The 2020 retreat takes place from July 4 to 11, just after the opening of the nearby Arles photo festival. Applications are due Jan. 12. Read the full Story >>
The Photography Master Retreat Monday November 20, 2017
The wonderful Photography
Master Retreat is now accepting applications for its 2018 edition, which will take place from July 7 to 14 in the south of France, right after the opening week of the nearby Les Rencontres
d’Arles festival. Early Bird Special on 2018 applications ends December 10, 2017. The retreat’s three mentors will be independent curator Elisabeth Biondi; critic, curator, and educator
Lyle Rexer; and photographer and educator Martine Fougeron. Fourteen applicants will be selected for the immersive workshop for established and emerging photographers. Go here for more. Go here for information on how to apply. Read the full Story >>
The Photography Master Retreat Tuesday November 27, 2018
You can apply now for the
fifth Photography Master Retreat, which will take place from July 6 to 13, 2019, in the south of France. The retreat, which follows the opening week of Les Rencontres d’Arles, is designed for
established, professional and emerging photographers from a variety of areas. They will work intensively with three mentors: noted visual editor Elisabeth Biondi, artist and education Martine
Fougeron, and critic, curator and educator Lyle Rexer. The main goal “is to heighten creativity – by looking intensively at the work the students have made and are making, thinking about
what it means, and discovering what it should be,” note the organizers. Read the full Story >>
The Photography Masters Retreat Thursday January 14, 2016
We’ve mentioned this unique workshop for professional photographers in the south of France previously, but it’s time for another reminder: The 2016 edition of the Photography Master
Retreat will take place from July 9 to 16, the week following Les Rencontres d’Arles. It’s aimed at pros in any genre who
want to take their work to the next level. They will be mentored by visuals editor and curator Elisabeth Biondi; artist-educators Katharina Bosse and Martine Fougeron: and Lyle Rexer, a critic,
curator and educator. Application deadline in Jan. 31. Read the full Story >>
The Photography Master Retreat Monday January 9, 2017
We have previously spotlighted
the annual Photography Master Retreat, an intensive one-week workshop in the south of France that takes place just after Arles photo festival. This year’s retreat runs from July 8 to 15 and will
again feature four noted mentors — Elisabeth Biondi, former New Yorker visuals editor and curator; Lyle Rexer, critic, curator and educator; and artist-educators Martine Fougeron and Katharina
Bosse. A group of 14 participants will be chosen by the mentors from submitted applications, which are due by January 10. Read the full Story >>
The Photography Masters Retreat Thursday December 19, 2013
A first of its kind, the Photography Master Retreat is a one-week event in the south of France for photogs “seeking to refocus their personal/professional work and take it to the next
level” under the guidance of four distinguished mentors, including noted photography editor Elizabeth Biondi, critic and curator Lyle Rexer, and fine-art photographer Martine Fougeron. “It
is designed as a journey to explore photographic ideas and process in depth, allowing participants to re-think their aesthetic and trajectory as an artist,” note the organizers. Dates: July 12
to 19, 2014. Application is due by January 6, 2014. Read the full Story >>
The Photography Master Retreat Friday June 5, 2020
Normally the The Photography
Master Retreat brings together a select group of photographers in the south of France to be mentored by curator Elisabeth Biondi, critic and curator Lyle Rexer, and fine-art photographer Martine
Fougeron. This year, due to the pandemic, workshop will be conducted virtually via Zoom. Dates: Sunday, July 5 to Friday, July 10. Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday February 11, 2020
When does adulthood begin? This question is at the heart of photographer Martine Fougeron's longterm series focusing on her two sons, Nicolas and Adrien. After leaving behind a corporate career to
study fine-art photography, Fourgeron began documenting the lives her sons as they became adolescents, what she called the "liminal state between childhood and adulthood." The work was later published
in the book well … Read the full Story >>
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David Schonauer Tuesday April 5, 2016
The Port Morris section of the Bronx is tucked out view, cut off from the rest of the New York City borough by the Bruckner Expressway to the north. "No one knows where it is, really," says fine-art
photographer Martine Fougeron, who moved to the neighborhood from Manhattan in 2009, looking for more space. What she found - a quiet place filled with small … Read the full Story >>
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Peggy Roalf Wednesday October 16, 2013
Martine Fougeron, whose work is regularly seen on the pages of the New York Times
Magazine, New York magazine, and The New Yorker, among others, is a quintessential New
Yorker, transplanted from France. Her exhibition, Teen Tribe, continues at the Gallery at Hermès through November
8th. Martine stopped shooting last week long enough to do this Q&A for DART:How were you first introduced to photography? I … Read the full Story >>
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Jeff Wignall Thursday December 1, 2016
Simply Super! Photographer Jeff Wignall takes the Canon EOS 80D (along with the Canon EF-S 55-250mm F4-5.6 IS STM lens) to some "super" locations and finds out that part of the camera's charm is its
utter simplicity! Read the full Story >>
