From Street to Book

A year on the street

Street photography isn’t learnt in a workshop. It’s learnt on the street, with time, with mistakes, with a lot of looking and very little shooting. But it’s learnt much better with a framework: references to dialogue with, a group to share the process with, and someone who reads your work and asks you uncomfortable questions.

From Street to Book is a year-long course. Each month we dedicate a full session to a photographer or movement fundamental to the genre: their life, their technique, their relationship with the street. Then we go out into Barcelona and work with their gaze as the brief. Between sessions, you have assignments: a roll, a specific brief, a deliverable that the tutor reads and comments on individually.

At the end of the year you have a body of work. A personal archive of a year of analogue street photography in Barcelona. And the option to turn it into a photobook.

The twelve photographers

The journey starts at home — Joan Colom and Català-Roca, Barcelona itself — and expands through the great names of world street photography: Cartier-Bresson, Robert Frank, Winogrand, Diane Arbus, the Parisian humanist school, Saul Leiter, Koudelka, Moriyama, Alex Webb and Martin Parr. Each session is a different universe. Each session raises the same question: how would you do it?

The thread running through it all is the debate between two philosophies of practice — the fisher and the hunter — which is revisited each session and which each participant resolves in their own way over the course of the year.

Structure of each session

Each outing has a specific neighbourhood and a brief derived directly from the photographer studied. Not “take photos in the Raval”: work as Joan Colom worked in the Raval. The difference is total.

Prices

The prices shown in the technical details are per session. The course is offered in two formats:

Per semester (6 sessions, intake in October or April):

Full year (12 sessions, 10% discount on two semesters):

Each session includes a 35mm roll. If you want to shoot more, additional rolls are available at +€12/each.

Analogue by default

The course is analogue. 35mm forces you to think, limits your shots and makes the decision-making process visible. Some sessions explore analogue colour. Digital is accepted provided the participant can argue for it in relation to the photographer being studied.

And at the end, the book

The course closes with a synthesis session: reviewing the journey, a personal map of influences, first selection for the photobook. Those who want to continue can access the Photobook: from concept to object, where the body of work from the course becomes a real editorial object: digital, printed, or both. It is an independent workshop that must be arranged separately.

What to bring

• Your own 35mm analogue camera
• Willingness to work between sessions

Not included

• Additional rolls (+€12/each, available at the studio)
• Production of the printed photobook (custom quote via 112books)

Documentation included

Each session includes reference material: a technical profile of the photographer studied, a selection of representative works and resources for further reading. All of it is yours to keep.