Fotografiska Academy: Documentary Photography

Name: Fotografiska Academy: Documentary Photography
Start: 2025-11-03T18:30:00+01:00
Location: Oranienburger Str. 54, 10117

Schedule

Mon, 03 Nov, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

Oranienburger Str. 54, 10117 | Berlin, BE

Led by photographer Mustafah Abdulaziz, this hands-on course explores the meeting point between creative expression and ethical responsibility. You develop projects that engage with people, places, and challenges, while building a personal visual language that is both sensitive and critically informed.
Through seminars, hands-on workshops and critiques, you learn research methods, narrative construction and strategies for presenting work across exhibitions, publications and digital media. Case studies of landmark and contemporary projects provide context for how images shape public understanding.
By the end, you have developed your own project through hands-on practice and guided feedback.
The course takes inspiration from the work of Helga Paris, and her exhibition für uns, which is currently on view at Fotografiska Berlin. Her photography shows how documentary practice can carry an artistic vision while remaining socially relevant.
This program is aimed at emerging and mid-career photographers, artists, students, and anyone with basic photography skills who wants to deepen their practice through documentary work. We are asking you to bring an ongoing project or an idea that you wish to develop.
See below for more information and the course structure.
ABOUT THE HOST
Mustafah Abdulaziz (b. 1986, New York City) is a photographer & director based between Berlin and London. For over fourteen years his work has focused on the human impact on climate change by bringing vital stories to the public through large-scale installations around the world. He is the winner of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award, a grantee of National Geographic, and a former fellow of the Alicia Patterson and Bertha Foundations. He is a regular contributor to The New York Times, TIME, and Der Spiegel. His work has been acquired by the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection in Stuttgart and the National Portrait Gallery in London. His first short film, Women Are Beautiful, debuted in Berlin in 2025.
FOR WHOM THIS COURSE IS SUITABLE
The course is aimed atemerging and mid-career photographers, artists, students, and anyone with basic photography skills who wants to deepen their practice through documentary work. We are asking you to bring an ongoing project or an idea that you wish to develop.