Looking Together: An Educator Workshop

This workshop is designed for new and experienced photography educators to create and interpret meaningful images. Participants will decode and encode photographs, learning how to interpret them, using flexible, engaging inquiry techniques that are accessible to students of all levels.

Hosted by Magnum Foundation, the in-person workshop will be taught by Aperture On Sight teaching artist Alice Proujansky, a professional photographer and arts educator. Looking Together will feature hands-on engagement with educational materials, as well as an artist’s talk by a Magnum Foundation Counter Histories grantee on how to use Aperture publications in the classroom.

Aperture is committed to creating equitable and accessible opportunities for the education community and is pleased to offer full-scholarship registration for the workshop.

The capacity for the workshop is 25 participants; applicants will be selected by a jury of professionals from Magnum Foundation and Aperture. The deadline to submit applications is Friday, September 16, 2022. Selected participants will be notified on Monday, October 3, 2022. To apply, please fill out this form. Application closes on Friday, September 16, 2022.

Please contact education@aperture.org with any questions.

Magnum Foundation
59 E 4th St, #7w
New York, NY 10003

Alice Proujansky is a documentary photographer and teaching artist, and the lead curriculum writer for On Sight, Aperture’s photography and visual literacy curriculum. Her photographs of women, labor, birth, and leftists have been published widely, and she has received support from the International Women’s Media Foundation, Magnum Foundation, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, Women Photograph, and other organizations. Her book Go Photo! An Activity Book for Kids was published by Aperture in 2016.

Image by Alice Proujansky.