REGISTER

Spring Photo Workshop in Mexico with Kim Weston and Miguel Soler-Roig.    

March 15^th- 19^th  2017

Please send an email to spainphotoworkshop@gmail.com  to confirm your place in this workshop. 

Then information and details of payment for your tuition will be send to you by email. Please contact the same email 
if you have any problems registering, need another way to pay your tuition or assistance in registration.

Fees

Cost of Workshop is $ 3,000.

Workshop Fees covers tuition, transportation from Manzanillo to photo locations and hotel accommodation. Meals and airfare to and from Mexico are not included.

If you want to book your place send us an email to spainphotoworkshop@gmail.com with your name, address and phone number.

You can also call the following number: +34 91 131 0600, Monday to Friday, between 10:00 am and 7:00 pm Spain time. Note that 50% of the tuition fee is required to secure your reservation. Space is limited to 10 participants only.  

For payments within the United States please contact Gina Weston gina@kimweston.com for bank wire details. We accept checks, money orders, credit cards and bank wires. Please make all payments in US dollars, and make all checks, or money orders to Gina Weston. 

Space is limited to 10 participants only": You can be accompanied by a non photographer person.  Please let us know to arrange accommodations. Extra fee will apply.

Contact spainphotoworkshop@gmail.com for more details.

Withdrawal, Workshop Cancellation and Refund

If you need to withdraw from the workshop, you must inform us no later than 30 days prior to the first day of your workshop, and we will refund your deposit or full tuition, which ever is applicable, less a $100.00 registration fee.

After the cutoff date a refund will only be made if a qualified replacement is found.
If it is necessary for us to cancel a workshop/tutorial, all registered participants will be notified at once, and you will receive a full refund of deposits and fees.

Notification of cancellation due to low enrollment will be made at least 14 days prior to the beginning of class. For this reason we encourage you to purchase refundable airline tickets and consider purchasing trip cancellation insurance. The workshop will not be responsible for any loss on airline tickets or any other loss at all.

Waiver of Liability

The Weston Workshops shall have no responsibility or liability for personal injury to any participant or damage to any participant’s property, or for personal injuries or damage to the property of any other person resulting from the participant’s involvement in the workshop.

The Weston Workshops has the right to cancel any workshop and to alter the time, context, or format of any workshop in the event circumstances require. In the event a workshop is canceled, for any reason the extent of the Workshops’ liability is limited to the return of all fees and deposits paid.

Need more information? Please contact spainphotoworkshop@gmail.com 

NEXT WORKSHOP: MARCH 2017

It is a pleasure to announce our next workshop will take place in the Mexican Pacific Cost, from the 15th to the 19th of March with the special collaboration of Kim Weston. We will let you know all the details very soon.

     

ITINERARY

TO BE DISCLOSED TO PARTICIPANTS

WORKSHOP: APRIL 2015

The Spain Photography Workshop this year takes places in Barcelona and nearby locations in the Costa Brava. 

The workshop theme is The Modernism of Gaudi and the Surrealism of Dali.

It will take place from the 17th  to the 22nd of April

Antoni Gaudí helped the Catalan architecture to worldwide fame and reputation. Gaudí was also an architect and designer with a special ability to synthesise their own tradition and the courage to new technical solutions. He understood to integrate creative and plastic elements in his buildings.

Antoni Gaudí was born in 1852 in the Catalan town of Reus as the son of a craftsmen. In Barcelona, he studied architecture; he concluded his studies in 1878. During this time Catalonia experienced a period of cultural and political rebirth, the Renaixença, at a time of economic and urban growth. A big bourgeoisie patronage wanted not to mix with European currents.

The 1888 World's Fair awarded the generation of the modernisme the main impulses. Gaudí overcame the prevailing historical styles of the eclecticism of the 19th century and developed his own aesthetic with its own distinctive, but difficult to classify style.

Gaudí creation is closely linked to his patron, the industrialist and financier Güell. He has not only a considerable number of orders, but he stocked it with a high prestige. Even at a young age Gaudí was instructed with the construction of the Sagrada Familia, he later devoted exclusively his power to the church.

Gaudí is also a great craftsperson. In collaboration with artists of his time, he designed all the architectural space filled elements: works from forged iron, furniture, ceramics, sculptures, mosaics and stained glass windows. His forms were always organic, curved and into the building.

During the visit, we will visit privately some of the most representatives buildings of Gaudi and we will take amazing pictures.

Watch the amazing video of Casa Batlló 

Batlló house

Batlló house

Batlló house

La Pedrera
Tour virtual La Pedrera

La Pedrera

The Güell park 

Salvador Dali is among the most versatile and prolific artists of the twentieth century. Though chiefly remembered for his painterly output, in the course of his long career he successfully turned to sculpture, printmaking, fashion, advertising, writing, and, perhaps most famously, filmmaking in his collaborations with Luis Bunuel and Alfred Hitchcock. Dali was renowned for his flamboyant personality as much as for his undeniable technical virtuosity. In his early use of organic morphology, his work bears the stamp of fellow Spaniards Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró. His paintings also evince a fascination for Classical and Renaissance art, clearly visible through his hyper-realistic style and religious symbolism of his later work. Dali is most often associated with the Surrealist movement.

We will spend a day in Figueres and a day in Cadaques, the small towns outside Barcelona where Dali was born and lived with his family. Throughout his life, Dali retained his love for Catalan culture, and he depicted the landscape surroundings of the Costa Brava in several key paintings throughout his career. 

VIRTUAL VISIT TO DALI'S HOUSE

We will visit his Theatre-Museum and this will be the main inspiration for our photographs. The amazing place that Dalí wish it to be “… a single block, a labyrinth, a great surrealist object. It will be totally theatrical museum. The people who come to see it will leave with the sensation of having had a theatrical dream.”

The heart of the museum is the building that housed the town's theater when Dalí was a child, where one of the first public exhibitions of young Dalí's art was shown. The old theater was burned during the Spanish Civil War and remained in a state of ruin for decades. In 1960, Dalí and the mayor of Figueres decided to rebuild it as a museum dedicated to the town's most famous son. In 1968, the city council approved the plan, and construction began the following year.[1]:4 The architects were Joaquim de Ros i Ramis and Alexandre Bonaterra. The museum opened on September 28, 1974, with continuing expansion through the mid-1980s. The museum now includes buildings and courtyards adjacent to the old theater building.

The museum displays the single largest and most diverse collection of works by Salvador Dalí, the core of which was from the artist's personal collection. In addition to Dalí paintings from all decades of his career, there are Dalí sculptures, 3-dimensional collages, mechanical devices, and other curiosities from Dalí's imagination. A highlight is a 3-dimensional anamorphic living-room installation with custom furniture that looks like the face of Mae West when viewed from a certain spot.

REGISTER

Spring Photo Workshop in Spain with Kim Weston and Miguel Soler-Roig.    April 17th- April 22nd  2015

Please send an email to spainphotoworkshop@gmail.com  to confirm your place in this workshop. 

Then information and details of payment for your tuition will be send to you by email. Please contact the same email 
if you have any problems registering, need another way to pay your tuition or assistance in registration.

Fees

If you want to book your place send us an email to spainphotoworkshop@gmail.com with your name, address and phone number.

You can also call the following number: +34 91 131 0600, Monday to Friday, between 10:00 am and 7:00 pm Spain time. Note that 50% of the tuition fee is required to secure your reservation. Space is limited to 10 participants only.  

For payments within the United States please contact Gina Weston gina@kimweston.com for bank wire details. We accept checks, money orders, credit cards and bank wires. Please make all payments in US dollars, and make all checks, or money orders to Gina Weston. 

Space is limited to 10 participants only": You can be accompanied by a non photographer person.  Please let us know to arrange accommodations. Extra fee will apply.

Payment outside the US should be made in Euros. Contact spainphotoworkshop@gmail.com for more details.

Withdrawal, Workshop Cancellation and Refund

If you need to withdraw from the workshop, you must inform us no later than 30 days prior to the first day of your workshop, and we will refund your deposit or full tuition, which ever is applicable, less a $100.00 registration fee.

After the cutoff date a refund will only be made if a qualified replacement is found.
If it is necessary for us to cancel a workshop/tutorial, all registered participants will be notified at once, and you will receive a full refund of deposits and fees.

Notification of cancellation due to low enrollment will be made at least 14 days prior to the beginning of class. For this reason we encourage you to purchase refundable airline tickets and consider purchasing trip cancellation insurance. The workshop will not be responsible for any loss on airline tickets or any other loss at all.

Waiver of Liability

The Weston Workshops shall have no responsibility or liability for personal injury to any participant or damage to any participant’s property, or for personal injuries or damage to the property of any other person resulting from the participant’s involvement in the workshop.

The Weston Workshops has the right to cancel any workshop and to alter the time, context, or format of any workshop in the event circumstances require. In the event a workshop is canceled, for any reason the extent of the Workshops’ liability is limited to the return of all fees and deposits paid.

Need more information? Please contact spainphotoworkshop@gmail.com 

ITINERARY

The workshop will start on Friday morning April 17th and will finish on Wednesday April 22nd in the afternoon.

We will finish our workshop visiting the fair ARTS LIBRIS

On April 23rd, (local holiday celebrating Saint George, patron of the Catalan Region) starts the book fair ARTS LIBRIS in Barcelona: 

Web Arts libris

Will be an opportunity also to view for the first time interesting photobooks. So plan on staying in Barcelona that day if you can. April 23th-26th is an open agenda to hang around. You are welcome to join us, but this will be out of the program.

FIGUERES

DALÍ MUSEUM