f3 – MASTERCLASS PORTRAIT 2024/25

Sibylle Fendt

1. December 2024 — 30. November 2025

The f³– MASTERCLASS PORTRAIT 2024/25 is aimed at photographers and photo artists who are mainly involved in the genre of portrait photography. For ten months, the renowned photographer and lecturer Sibylle Fendt will supervise the participants’ projects on 12 teaching days (6 blocks of 2 days each). These projects may be in their early stages or already advanced.

The participants deal with questions such as: “How do I approach a person I want to photograph?”, “What is the relationship between me and my protagonists?”, “How is this reflected in my work?”, “Which photographic approaches do I pursue?”, “What makes a successful portrait series?” in an intensive dialogue with the lecturer – and in the end: “What do I want to tell and how?”

In regular project presentations the participants learn to talk about their work and to analyse their projects in terms of visual language, technique and approach. In addition to the creative/artistic examination of the series, the seminar also covers questions about the organisation of exhibitions, the sale of pictures, the publication and marketing of photographs – in short, everything that belongs to the everyday professional life of successful photographers and photo artists.

The aim of the f³– MASTERCLASS PORTRAIT 2024/25 is to develop an independent, intensive series. The photographic works of the participants will be presented to a broad public in November 2025 in an exhibition.

SCOPE: 12 teaching days of 7 hours each, always Friday/Saturday
DURATION: December 2024 – November 2025
BEGINNING: December 6+7, 2024
DATES: February 14+15, April 4+5, June 13+14, September 12 and October 17+18, 2025.
FINAL EXHIBITION: November 2025
LOCATION: Berlin-Mitte
COST: 1.400 €; VAT will not be charged due to § 4 Nr. 22 UStG. The costs for the exhibition are borne by the participants themselves.
PAYMENT: 900 € at registration; 500 € before the second date

APPLICATION: The closing date for applications is November 1, 2024, 11:59 pm
Please send the following documents to masterclass-fendt@fhochdrei.org
– Curriculum vitae including documentation of previous projects, exhibitions, books, publications (max. 2 A4 pages)
– Portfolio of about 20 photographs
– Exposé of the project you would like to realize within the framework of the f³– MASTERCLASS PORTRAIT (max. 1 Din A4 page)

Participants will be selected by mid-November.

LECTURER
Sibylle Fendt was born in Karlsruhe in 1974. After completing a degree in photography at the University of Applied Sciences in Bielefeld, she moved to Berlin in 2002, where she still lives today. In 2003 she was part of the World Press Photo Masterclass. In 2003–2005 Sibylle Fendt was a guest student in the class of Wolfgang Tillmans at the Frankfurt Art Academy. Since 2010 she is a member of Ostkreuz-Agentur der Fotografen. Sibylle Fendt works as a commissioned photographer for magazines and companies in the field of portrait and social documentary photography, teaches photography at various universities and works continuously on free long-term projects that are exhibited internationally. Her subjects are social exclusion, gender studies, psychological, social, illness-related crises and simply “normal” life. The portrait is the focus of her work. More information is available at: https://www.ostkreuz.de/fotografen/sibylle-fendt/ and http://www.sibyllefendt.de