Online - November 9 & 16, 2024
SANTA FE WORKSHOPS PRESENTS:
Get Seen: Submitting Your Work to Competitions, Festivals, and Galleries
with Sonia Goydenko
Saturdays; 10:00 am – 1:00 pm (Mountain Time)
@ Sonia Goydenko, Women Street Photographers NYC Festival and Exhibition Finalist 2024
@ Sonia Goydenko, Women Street Photographers NYC Festival and Exhibition Finalist 2024
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Would you like to show your photographic talent and images to the world, but the process of submitting to a competition, festival, or gallery just feels too confusing and intimidating? Or have you submitted your photographs to various contests, only to get rejected at every turn? If the answer is “yes,” then photographer Sonia Goydenko is willing to help!
In this two-week immersive online workshop, Sonia initially reviews the opportunities in the three arenas most photographers choose to get their work seen—competitions, festivals, and galleries. She offers guidance and tools for finding the competitions that best suit your work, to researching judges’ preferences and recognizing that a successful submission is more than merely sending in your favorite images. Sonia demystifies the various application processes guiding you to use best practices as well as how give yourself the best opportunity for success.
Over the course of two Saturdays, each participant receives hands-on advice and constructive criticism on your personal work focusing on the strengths of the images; how to determine goals for submitting photographs to a competition or festival; which are worth investing in; and how to get your work into galleries.
Participating in competitions and festivals as well as exhibiting in group shows or a solo exhibition are all great ways to grow as a photographer, gage your place in a certain photographic community, challenge yourself, build your photographic resume, and ultimately get your work seen by esteemed judges, all influencers and leaders in the industry. Join Sonia for two fun and informative Saturdays in November to learn the best ways to Get Seen.
@ Sonia Goydenko, Miami Street Photo Festival Finalist 2019 and Published in The New York Festivals 2023
@ Sonia Goydenko, Published in F-Stop Magazine 2024
@ Sonia Goydenko, Published in Eyeshot Magazine, Exhibition at Trieste Photo Days Italy 2020
@ Sonia Goydenko, Published in Eyeshot Magazine, Aussie Street Photo Festival Finalist 2019
Sonia Goydenko has been a Photography Educator since 2018. She has taught both in-person as well as online workshops. Her main focus is helping budding photographers find their voice and put work together for competitions, books, and photography shows. She currently teaches at Santa Fe Workshops, at NYC-SPC - a non-profit dedicated to sharing the art of street photography with the underserved NYC population, and also gives private classes & workshops online & in-person in the New York City and New Mexico area.
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