LSI is excited to have its second annual European Spring Shoot in Porto, Portugal, from May 16-18, with an optional add-on day on Sunday, May 19th. Read below for details!
Porto is world-famous for its port wine, and also its azulejos and beautiful historic centre, which was designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1996. All throughout the city, you'll notice intricate painted tiles (azulejos) used to decorate churches, train stations, and other buildings. Porto is a photographer’s dream!
See below for a complete program
Add-On Duoro Wine Valley Tour
As an additional option, you can sign up for a destination port wine tour and tasting on Sunday, May 19. We will be vising the Quinta do Bomfim Vinyards where you will enjoy:
Coach bus transport through the beautiful Duomo Valley (1.5 hours each way), Port Wine tasting, Photography tour of the vineyards , Wine cellars access, Delicious lunch
Register Today! (Hotel information and registration link will be emailed to you upon registration)
Program
Schedule and times are subject to change. All meeting sessions will take place at the Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis, a 10-15 minute walk from the hotels.
Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Arrival day for Participants
19:00 Informal Meet and Greet at Leica Store Porto (light refreshments/snacks served)
Thursday, May 16, 2024
9:00 -9:10 AM Welcome - William Fagan, LSI VP & Richard Rejino LSI Executive Director
9:10-10:00 Introduction of Attendees
Attendees share a little about themselves with other LSI Members. A great way to break the ice and start the morning.
10:00-11:00 Pedro Oliveira – Production Manager Leica SA
Product Manager, Pedro Oliveira will be discussing Leica Portugal, the past, the present and the future. He will share some of the history of the last 50 years that Leica as been in Portugal with a factory: what they do today, and what is planned for the future.
11:00 – 12:00 Lunch/Snacks Provided at the Museum
Since we will be leaving directly from the Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis to the Leica Factory for the tour, a light lunch will be provided for you.
12:00 -16:00 Leica Factory Tour - Pick up at the Museu Nacional Soares dos Reis
The Leica factory tour is a sight to be seen. Buses will pick us up and take you to the Leica Factory for a tour of the facilities.
18:00 Dinner on your own
Friday, May 17, 2024
8:45-9:00 Announcements
9:00 – 10:00 Paradise Lost with Adriana Loureiro-Fernandez
How a personal photographic journal became a document for Venezuela’s collapse. In this session, Adriana will discuss the creative process behind an ongoing personal project that marks its 10th year in 2024. How a personal project that initially helped her navigate the complicated realities of growing up in social decay evolved into a career as a photojournalist. Paradise Lost serves as an example of how personal and editorial work can intertwine.
10 – 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:15 A Modern Approach to Leica Collection and Documentation with Agusto Liger
This session will coer the following topics: New tools for classic view, 100 years History viewed through a rangefinder, Cameras with history, Top-down approach to documentation, The rabbit hole (s), Exceptions: a source for nice findings, Where all of the above don't apply: The Mur-Leica collection
11:15- 12:00 The Photography of Rui Caria
Rui Caria chose Leica's M system to produce all his photographic work and, as he explains in this talk, this was the best choice he has made in his professional life, not only because of the consistency of the visual signature he has created, but because the pleasure of photographing is part of the process. In recent years, the photojournalist has been working exclusively with the M system, both for long-term documentary work and for daily news stories, such as the war in Ukraine or the migratory movements of refugees in the Central Mediterranean, proving that there are no limitations in equipment.
12:00 – 13:30 Lunch
13:30 – 17:30 Photo Assignment & Photo Walk
18:30 Leica Gallery Opening/Reception -
A special evening featuring the work of Adriana Loureiro-Fernandez, 2023 LSI Women in Photography Recipient, Ingmar Nolting, 2023 LSI Photo Grant Recipient, and Adra Pallon, LSI Photo Grant Runner-Up.
Saturday, May 18, 2024
8:45-9:00 Morning Announcements
9:00-10:15 Printing Your Images with Marco Rocha
Join Marco Rocha as he discusses the steps to printing your images: Image Capture, Printing techniques, Papers and inks, Color processing, Image processing, Soft Proofs & Printing
10:15-10:45 Break
10:45 – 12:00 Panel Discussion with Adriana Loureiro, Ingmar Nolting, Adra Pallon with Karin Rhen-Kaufmann
Karin Rhen-Kaufmann will lead a discussion with our panel of distinguished photographers whose work is featured at the opening of the Leica Gallery Exhibit in the Leica Store Porto. This lively discussion will include a variety of subjects from the state of photojournalism, projects of our panelists and their process, and more.
12:00 – 14:30 Lunch (on your own) & Photo Walk
14:30 - 15:30 Selecting/Editing Your Images
15:30 – 16:30 Sharing of Images with Commentary with William Fagan, Wilbur Norman, & Jono Slack
18:30 Cocktails
19:00 Banquet (must be pre-registered)
Sunday, May 19, 2024 Optional Add-On Event
9:00 – 18:00 Wine Tour $165 (USD) - must sign up in advance.
Join us for a memorable tour through the Douro Wine Valley and a visit to the renowned Quinta do Bomfim where you will enjoy a tour of the grounds, a port wine tasting, a delicious lunch and lots of opportunities to make amazing photos. Buses will pick you up at your hotel for a beautiful day int the hils of Porto Portugal. Travel time is approximately 90 minutes each way. Click here to learn more about the Quinta do Bomfim! See photos below!
Presenters
Karen Rhen-Kaufmann - Art Director and Chief Representative Leica Galleries International (Austria), was born in Freiburg in 1957, and studied German philology and philosophy at the University of Freiburg after leaving school. She holds a diploma from the Eurythmische Hochschule in Stuttgart, where she was subsequently employed as a lecturer from 1982 to 1986. Furthermore, she graduated in Event Management from the Fernuniversität (Open University) Hagen and studied Mediation in Salzburg. After ACM Projektentwicklung GmbH, Salzburg, bought into Leica Camera AG in 2005, Rehn-Kaufmann’s long-standing passion for photography led to the opening of the Leica Gallery in Salzburg in 2008. She started with 5 Leica Galleries. Today she is the Art Director & Chief Representative of Leica Galleries International and holds management responsibility for the 25 Leica Galleries around the world. She has successfully curated a lot of prestigious exhibitions worldwide including, for instance, the Chinaflug project, an exhibition of spectacular aerial photography from the 1930s that was presented at the Chinese Embassy in Berlin, Photo Shanghai and other places. She was also responsible for the Leica Gallery exhibition concepts at photokina in 2012, 2014 and 2016, as well as the ‘10x10’ exhibition on the occasion of the 100year jubilee of Leica photography, and ‘50 best for Leica’ – an exclusive collection of the most famous photographs taken by the prominent US Magnum photographer Elliot Erwitt. Since 2019 she is on top responsible for the Ernst Leitz Photo museum in Wetzlar.
Karin Rehn-Kaufmann has been a member of the jury of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award since 2008, and has played a significant role in the organisation and further development of the prestigious photography competition. For the 40. Celebration of this Award in 2020, she very successfully changed the system from a free submission to a nominated system.
Pedro Oliviero - is the product manager of Leica SA.
Rui Caria is a Portuguese photojournalist from Nazaré. He collaborates with various media outlets and communication agencies in Portugal and abroad. His photographic work is recognized by editors of the most diverse publications and his images have been published in several international photography books. Rui Caria is studying for a master’s degree in Communication and Media at ESECS and he is a speaker at events dedicated to visual communication, photography, and photojournalism. He has articles on photography and imagery published in the national and international press. With a body of photographic work exhibited throughout the country, Rui Caria has been a finalist and winner of several photography competitions, including the Sony World Photography Awards, National Awards. Rui Caria's work focuses on social issues, human rights, and the environment. He is particularly interested in documenting the lives of ordinary people and the challenges they face, making a contribution to the field of photojournalism, his work helps to raise awareness of important social issues
Adriana Loureiro Fernandez is a freelance photojournalist currently based in Caracas, Venezuela. Focusing on social conflict, her work has been featured in the New York Times, Washington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, the Los Angeles Times, Der Spiegel, among others including NGOs like Doctors Without Borders and Save The Children. She is currently a frequent contributor at The New York Times and was most recently awarded with the 2023 Leica Society Foundation’s Women in Photojournalism Grant.
In 2017, she received Ian Parry's Highly Commended Award and in 2019 she received the Remi Ochlik Award at Visa Pour L’Image. Her work has been exhibited in several European and Latin American countries, as well as several cities in the United States, including multiple exhibitions at Photoville, in New York City. She has a Master's Degree in Journalism from Columbia University in the city of New York and is a 2018 alumni from the Eddie Adams Workshop, where she received the Nikon Award. She was a 2018 fellow with the Heinrich Böll Foundation, which funded a reporting project in North Africa to explore the migrant crisis. Aside from her assignment work for The New York Times in Latin America, she is currently developing a new chapter of her ongoing project, Paradise Lost, with the help of the Leica Society Foundation.
Ingmar Björn Nolting lives and works as a freelance photographer in Leipzig, Germany. He holds a BA in photography at Dortmund University of Applied Sciences and Arts where he is currently enrolled in the Master Program. He is a founding member of the DOCKS collective. Ingmar's long-term projects have been awarded national and international prizes such as the Getty Reportage Grant, World Report Award and a VG Bildkunst Grant. His images have been published in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, TIME Magazine, Washington Post, Le Monde, ZEIT Magazine, Spiegel, ZEIT, GEO, Der Spiegel and Stern, among others. Ingmar held a scholarship of Stiftung Kunstfonds.
His domentary project, An Anthology of a Changing Climate, explores the challenges of Germany's ambitious goal to become a climate-neutral industrial nation by 2045. This places Germany among the international pioneers in the fight against the climate crisis. The path to climate neutrality is the “greatest modernisation and prosperity safeguarding project since World War II”, according to Dirk Messner, the President of the German Environment Agency. The phase-out of coal by 2038, seven to ten million electric cars on the roads by 2030 and a massive expansion of renewable energies were enshrined in law. Olaf Scholz, the German Chancellor, has already announced a second German economic miracle through the green transformation of the economy and climate-friendly innovations.
Adra Pallon is based in Lugo, Spain. The photographic language related to sociology is the basis of all my work. The central axis of all my photography is to offer a sociological vision of the reality in which I live. To achieve this aim, over the last five years I have been working on documentary and multimedia photography projects all over the country, dealing with different themes. This work that I have been doing since then has been recognised by public institutions, the media and society. I alternate my collaboration with different media with my personal work on long-term projects.
Owner and founder of the Lumen - Imaging Studio
Marco Rocha has a 25 years of experience in pre-printing, post-processing and production management having produced work for photographer world.wide, museus and galleries including Leica Portugal.