Photo No-Nos – a workshop with Jason Fulford in Venice

Photographers often have unwritten lists of subjects they tell themselves not to photograph—things that are cliché, exploitative, derivative, sometimes even arbitrary.

Are there things you tell yourself not to photograph?
Has someone ever told you that a subject was off-limits?
Are there subjects you’ve never photographed?
How about subjects you’ve over-photographed?
Are there pictures you make but don’t show anyone?

In this 2-day workshop hosted by Micamera Bookstore, workshop participants will wander around Venice (one of the most over-photographed locations) and try to overcome their self-imposed rules to make “good” pictures of things we usually try to avoid. Expect to be outside as much as possible, and when inside, to wear masks and stay COVID-safe.

A workshop that is perfectly in line with the times and inspired by Photo No-Nos, a book edited by Fulford and published by Aperture, which collects the answers of 240 photographers and photo professionals to the same question: the result is over 1000 taboo topics, organized alphabetically, with personal anecdotes from each contributor.

For more information and to register, please visit the Micamera Bookstore website. 

Jason Fulford (born in Atlanta, 1973) is a photographer and cofounder of the non-profit publisher J&L Books. Fulford’s photographs have been featured in Harper’s, New York Times Magazine, Blind Spot, and Aperture magazine. He has published many books of his work, including Raising Frogs for $$$ (2006), The Mushroom Collector (2010), Hotel Oracle (2013), and Picture Summer on Kodak Film(2020), as well as coedited The Photographer’s Playbook (with Gregory Halpern, Aperture, 2014). He is a 2014 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient.