‘Inspired by Saul Leiter’

NEW WORKSHOP FORMAT!

For workshops from December 2024 onwards, this workshop will be combined with my ‘night shooting’ workshop and will run as a longer session, from 1pm to 8pm. The workshop will start and finish close to Piccadilly Circus and there will be a short break in the middle of the session.

The 2024 workshops are now fully booked - sorry! - but I’ll be listing more in January and February so please keep an eye on the website (you can also join the waiting list via the booking form).

Saul Leiter was one of the world’s greatest and most influential street photographers and his work has made a remarkable revival in the 21st century. In this workshop you will learn about the man, his philosophy, his approach and his style of shooting.

You’ll discover how to embrace this striking aesthetic and to bring his influence into your own street photography.

With a maximum of 6 participants, this ‘Saul Leiter inspired’ street photography workshop is designed to help you become a creative, competent and confident street photographer. It will combine structured shooting with coaching from your course leader, Brian Lloyd Duckett. Embracing Leiter’s simplistic approach, this workshop is more about the ‘art’ than it is about the technical aspects of street photography. You will be coached in how to produce stylish and distinctive images inspired by art – not random pictures of people sitting in cafes or just walking down the street.

Leiter wasn’t the sort photographer who was interested in the bleakness, pain and suffering of everyday life. Instead, he was attracted by the positive and uplifting moments and images of his environment; the lovely colour and the beauty of everyday life. In the workshop we explore the four ‘pillars’ of his approach: shape, colour, tight framing and abstraction.

What will you learn on the day?

• Understand Leiter’s thinking, philosophy and approach

• Develop a street photographer’s ‘eye’ and learn how to spot a photo opportunity in an everyday street scene

• Understand where this approach fits in to the world of street photography

• Learn how to conceive and undertake meaningful street photography projects

• Understand the some principles of colour and composition

• Develop your own style of street photography in a more purposeful way

• Become invisible and shoot your environment quietly and unobtrusively

• Understand the key legal and ethical aspects of street photography