The Market Photo Workshop and the World Press Photo Foundation invite photographers in Africa to an Editing and Visual Sequencing Workshop. Get practical tips for photo editing and professional sequencing guidance from master instructors and photo editors.
Event information
Online workshop
Date: Wednesday 31 January 2024
Time: 15:00 CAT / 14:00 WAC
Facilitators: Alet Pretorius, Olfa Feki and Paul Botes
Who should attend
This workshop is for working African photographers. Students working in the field are also welcome.
Register and submit portfolio
Additional information
Speakers
Alet Pretorius is a freelance photographer, lecturer and visual artist. She focuses on photojournalism and storytelling in different environments (media, corporate, personal and social). She has more than 19 years of photojournalism experience which included a position of Picture Editor at Beeld newspaper. Currently she is freelancing for several publications and news agencies and also lectures part-time at the University of Pretoria, Market Photo Workshop and Boston Media House. Her photographs have been published in newspapers, magazines, books and online publications, she have won several awards and have exhibited at various galleries.
Olfa Feki is an independent architect, curator and consultant based between Tunisia, France, Morocco, Egypt and the Netherlands.
She has produced documentaries and photo essays, represented artists, served as a jury member, and curated exhibitions in galleries in Paris, Morocco and Cairo. She co-founded the platform Shutter Party, and has collaborated with World Press Photo, Magnum agency, NOOR agency and Arab World Institute, as well as governmental institutions such as the Goethe Institute and the French Institute as a cultural consultant. She co-directed the biennale of contemporary art Something Else 2015, and was involved in World Nomads New York 2013, Dak’art 2014, Something Else, Cairo 2015 and the Biennale of Photographers of the Contemporary Arab World; IMA and La MEP, Paris 2017.
Paul Botes is a picture editor and freelance photographer, based in Johannesburg, Gauteng. Since 2006, Paul has been the picture editor at the Mail & Guardian, and since 2020 the picture editor at The Continent. Paul has won numerous awards for his work – which focuses on issues of social justice and inequality.
