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30 May 2013
14-21 September Danube Delta Documentary Photography Workshop
Join American photographer Davin Ellicson on the Danube Delta of Romania in September 2013 for a week exploring and photographing this fascinating part of Europe, cut off from the rest of Romania.
A paradise for wildlife and now both a Biosphere Reserve and UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Delta was once slated to be drained by dictator Nicolae Ceausescu who intended to use its water for agriculture. Today, most visitors and photographers come for the wildlife, but our focus will be on the rich daily life of the local inhabitants--fishermen, ethnic Ukrainian Lipovani and people living in the port towns of Sulina and Sfantu Gheorghe.
Davin is offering a seven day documentary photography workshop based in the village of Periprava. From here, we will take daily boat rides along the myriad channels, exploring different communities including Mila 23 and Murighiol.
Davin will be working closely with workshop participants and providing daily critiques and group discussions. We will begin with a review of participants' past work. The goal of this workshop is to learn to create strong personal photographs about life on the Danube Delta. We will shoot during the day and edit in the evenings. It’s a workshop open to amateurs and professionals alike. Technical, theoretical and aesthetic issues will be discussed as attendees work towards honing their individual visions.
Everyone will stay at the "Ultima Frontiera Complex, a boutique hotel far out on the Delta and home to Lipovani fishermen. The compound offers great local food and is an excellent base for our explorations. Local guides will help facilitate an immersive experience with the communities we visit.
It will be an opportunity to witness a remote area of Europe where people live in synch with the seasons and depend on the water of the Delta for their livelihood. The week promises to be an intense, intimate and unforgettable experience where students will get to know the villagers of the Delta first hand and experience a spectacular way of life.
It is an all digital workshop limited to 8 students and everyone should come with their own laptop and editing software.
DATES: 14-21 September.
WORKSHOP LOCATION: Periprava, Romania.
WORKSHOP FEE: €995. Accommodation, meals, round trip transport from Bucharest to Tulcea, Romania and on to Periprava as well as all transport within the Delta are included. A few budget airlines now fly from western Europe to Bucharest including Wizz Air and BlueAir.
REGISTRATION: The workshop is open to any professional or committed amateur who has knowledge of digital cameras and editing software.
CONTACT: davin@davinellicson.com
20-27 July Saxon Villages of Transylvania Documentary Photography Workshop
Join American photographer Davin Ellicson in the Saxon Villages of
Transylvania in July 2013 for a week-long documentary photography
workshop in an enchanting area of Europe.
Central Transylvania was home to scores of ethnic German villages from the 12th century onwards when King Géza II of Hungary invited Germans to colonize the area, but dictator Nicolae Ceausescu sold back around 90,000 Saxons to West Germany in the 1980s in an effort to rid Romania of the minority as well as to help pay off the country's foreign debt. The remaining Saxon population made a mass migration to Germany in 1990. Today some are returning and the area is coming alive once again.
Davin is offering a week-long documentary photography workshop based in the village of Viscri. From here, we will explore this lost world and tour the villages of Malancrav, Crit, Mesendorf and Biertan among others by mini van.
Davin will be working closely with participants and providing daily critiques and group discussions. We will begin with a review of students' past work. Participants are encouraged to photograph what interests them on their own, in pairs or small groups. The goal of this workshop is to learn to create strong personal photographs about some of the most unspoiled rural life left in Europe. We will shoot during the day and edit in the evenings.
Through group as well as one on one discussions of the best work, participants will see their picture making skills improve. Technical, theoretical and aesthetic issues will be discussed as attendees work towards honing their individual visions. What are you trying to say with your photography, to communciate? It's all about making a personal visual response to Transylvania. Participants will leave inspired and with a new understanding of the possibilities of documentary photography and how to continue in their practice after the workshop.
Everyone will enjoy great access to the villages through local guides from The Mihai Eminescu Trust and accommodation at restored Saxon homes will allow for an immersive experience with local villagers. The seven days promise to be an intense, intimate and unforgettable experience.
Since the fall of Communism, The Mihai Eminescu Trust, an NGO that Prince Charles collaborates with, has played an instrumental role in calling attention to Romania’s endangered rural culture and the plight of the Saxon Villages and is working to restore precious architecture and to revive the communities and make them sustainable again.
The Trust has renovated the houses and churches using traditional building materials and techniques and is helping return the idyllic villages to active farming through training the mostly Romanians and gypsies who now live there. Guest houses have opened encouraging the growth of a sustainable local economy and the youth are deciding to stay.
It is an all digital workshop limited to 8 students and everyone should come with their own laptop and editing software.
DATES: 20-27 July.
WORKSHOP LOCATION: Viscri, Transylvania and surrounding villages.
WORKSHOP FEE: €895. Includes a room at a restored Saxon home with three meals each day, all transportation around the villages and the assistance of local guides. Students are responsible for getting to Sighisoara, Romania on their own from where we will head out to the villages.
REGISTRATION: The workshop is open to any professional or committed amateur who has knowledge of digital cameras and editing software.
Central Transylvania was home to scores of ethnic German villages from the 12th century onwards when King Géza II of Hungary invited Germans to colonize the area, but dictator Nicolae Ceausescu sold back around 90,000 Saxons to West Germany in the 1980s in an effort to rid Romania of the minority as well as to help pay off the country's foreign debt. The remaining Saxon population made a mass migration to Germany in 1990. Today some are returning and the area is coming alive once again.
Davin is offering a week-long documentary photography workshop based in the village of Viscri. From here, we will explore this lost world and tour the villages of Malancrav, Crit, Mesendorf and Biertan among others by mini van.
Davin will be working closely with participants and providing daily critiques and group discussions. We will begin with a review of students' past work. Participants are encouraged to photograph what interests them on their own, in pairs or small groups. The goal of this workshop is to learn to create strong personal photographs about some of the most unspoiled rural life left in Europe. We will shoot during the day and edit in the evenings.
Through group as well as one on one discussions of the best work, participants will see their picture making skills improve. Technical, theoretical and aesthetic issues will be discussed as attendees work towards honing their individual visions. What are you trying to say with your photography, to communciate? It's all about making a personal visual response to Transylvania. Participants will leave inspired and with a new understanding of the possibilities of documentary photography and how to continue in their practice after the workshop.
Everyone will enjoy great access to the villages through local guides from The Mihai Eminescu Trust and accommodation at restored Saxon homes will allow for an immersive experience with local villagers. The seven days promise to be an intense, intimate and unforgettable experience.
Since the fall of Communism, The Mihai Eminescu Trust, an NGO that Prince Charles collaborates with, has played an instrumental role in calling attention to Romania’s endangered rural culture and the plight of the Saxon Villages and is working to restore precious architecture and to revive the communities and make them sustainable again.
The Trust has renovated the houses and churches using traditional building materials and techniques and is helping return the idyllic villages to active farming through training the mostly Romanians and gypsies who now live there. Guest houses have opened encouraging the growth of a sustainable local economy and the youth are deciding to stay.
It is an all digital workshop limited to 8 students and everyone should come with their own laptop and editing software.
DATES: 20-27 July.
WORKSHOP LOCATION: Viscri, Transylvania and surrounding villages.
WORKSHOP FEE: €895. Includes a room at a restored Saxon home with three meals each day, all transportation around the villages and the assistance of local guides. Students are responsible for getting to Sighisoara, Romania on their own from where we will head out to the villages.
REGISTRATION: The workshop is open to any professional or committed amateur who has knowledge of digital cameras and editing software.
CONTACT: davin@davinellicson.com
30 March 2013
Maramures project available in two new editions
I am offering all images from my Romanian Maramures project about Europe's last peasants in two new editions as
digital fiber prints (employing drums scans projected onto Ilford fiber
paper and developed with traditional chemicals). This process allows for exquisite resolution as well as shadow detail.
-30x40 inches in an edition of 5
-40x72 inches in an edition of 3
The original 11x14 inch and 20x24 inch prints are still available as well in editions of 20 and 10 respectively.
For the popular images below the 30x40 editions are all almost sold out.
The work is to be published as a book in 2014.
-30x40 inches in an edition of 5
-40x72 inches in an edition of 3
The original 11x14 inch and 20x24 inch prints are still available as well in editions of 20 and 10 respectively.
For the popular images below the 30x40 editions are all almost sold out.
The work is to be published as a book in 2014.
28 January 2013
Maramures work on display in France
I sell all my images as limited edition archival pigment prints. Contact me if interested.
04 November 2012
15 October 2012
New Orthodox Christmas Workshop in Maramures
Orthodox Christmas in Maramures: Folk Traditions on Europe's Eastern Fringe
Join Davin Ellicson in the Maramures region of northern Romania in December 2012 for a week of enchantment in one of the most traditional villages left in Europe.
For decades Romania’s closed border policy under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceausescu as well as a natural fortress of mountains kept Maramures isolated from the rest of Europe. Even after the fall of Communism change was slow to enter the region. The area is renowned for the strength of its traditions, folk costumes, idyllic landscape and is considered the heart of Romanian culture. In 2007 Romania joined the European Union and Maramures is at last changing. Come savor this rural life before it vanishes forever!
Davin is offering a six day documentary photography workshop based in the village of Valeni where he lived for a year with a family and fell under Romania's dark spell. Maramures is where Davin found his photographic voice. In his fourth workshop in the village, he will be sharing his passion for Romania with students.
Davin will be working closely with workshop participants and providing daily critiques and group discussions. We will begin with a review of participants' past work. The goal of this workshop is to learn to create strong personal photographs about the Christmas traditions and peasant life. We will shoot during the day and edit in the evenings. It’s a workshop open to amateurs and professionals alike. Technical, theoretical and aesthetic issues will be discussed as attendees work towards honing their individual visions.
Everyone will enjoy great access to the Christmas celebrations which occur over three days including caroling house to house, spectacular pagan rituals, Orthodox church services and the annual winter folk festival in the town of Sighetu Marmatiei on 27 December. Homestays will allow for an immersive experience with local villagers and the opportunity to sample distinctive traditional Romanian food and desserts as well as 110 proof homemade plum brandy. It will be an opportunity to witness the last peasants in Europe living life as they have for millennia albeit with a few aspects of modern life mixed in! The six days promise to be an intense, intimate and unforgettable experience where students will get to know the villagers first hand and live a romantic way of life forgotten in the rest of Europe more than a century ago.
It is an all digital workshop limited to 6 students and everyone should come with their own laptop and editing software. Knowledge of your digital SLR or rangefinder and workflow is essential. Davin will be giving a tutorial of Adobe Lightroom.
DATES: 22-28 December 2012.
WORKSHOP LOCATION: Valeni, Maramures, Romania.
WORKSHOP FEE: €750. Homestays with villagers and all meals are included. Students are responsible for their own transportation to Romania and up to Maramures. A few budget airlines now fly from western Europe to both Bucharest and Budapest from where there are daily trains to the cities of Baia Mare and Sighetu Maramatiei in Maramures.
REGISTRATION: The workshop is open to any professional or committed amateur who has knowledge of digital cameras and editing software.
CONTACT: For detailed travel and arrival information email Davin at: davin@davinellicson.com
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