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Magnum Photos – Gregory Halpern: Documentary Sur/Realism

Gregory Halpern leads our latest on-demand class. Featuring a curriculum of 16 lessons, this class unpacks his approach to portraiture, the power of editing and sequencing in building photographic narratives, and shares insights into how his celebrated projects and photobooks – including A, ZZYZX and Omaha Sketchbook – were created.

Follow Halpern as he creates new work in and around his native Buffalo, NY, focusing on his attempts to create compelling portraits of strangers met via Craigslist and encountered along the way. Halpern shares his end-to-end process, from pressing the shutter and creating contact sheets to his approach to editing and sequencing, giving his honest reflections on the successes and the failures.

This class offers a host of valuable advice that can be applied to your photographic practice, from thought-provoking discussions on the genre of documentary photography, to playful exercises on the relationships between images when presented in a sequence.

What you’ll learn

Creative Development
- Halpern shares his journey in photography, revealing how his voice as an artist evolved from his first major project to the work he is making today.
Photographing Strangers
- Understand some of the methods used by Halpern to find photographic subjects, and see how he navigates real-world portrait scenarios.
Intuition and Play
- Halpern speaks about his intuitive approach and how he incorporates playfulness into his artistic practice.
Halpern’s Process
- See the photographer in action as he makes new work, demonstrating his working process from creating contact sheets to making a selection through editing.
Narrative and Sequencing
- Halpern shares insights on shaping narrative through sequencing, and how this works within photobooks, his favourite format for viewing images.
Photobooks
- Learn about the photobooks that inspired Halpern and how the photographer edits and creates his own publications.