This is not a workshop on “how to take better pictures.” This is a workshop on how to make work that matters.

What You’ll Learn:

• How to push beyond “street photography”, portraiture, and other work into something raw and alive

• The lineage of provocation and bold moves in photography.

• How identity, writing, and image-making intersect

• Practical methods for making images in tension (confrontation, intimacy, surrender)

• Experimental process as a tool for identity-driven portraiture

• “Film or Digital” new tech old tech as palette options not just mediums.

• Hybrid practices that blend photography + text into manifestos

Who This Is For:

• Photographers tired of “nice pictures”

• Writers, artists, graphic artists, illustrators and documentarians seeking to fuse text, sound, and image

• Anyone ready to confront themselves through the lens

What You’ll Get:

• Two full days of live teaching + discussion (Live in studio, on street and recorded option)

• Shooting sessions with immediate critique

• Hybrid assignments that reframe your process

• A finished mini-series of images + statement from the workshop

• Direct feedback from Bil Brown

After the Street — IN-PERSON (Los Angeles)

Step into the room where the work happens. The in-person intensive is fully immersive: live lectures, shooting sessions, and critiques with Bil Brown in Los Angeles. You’ll engage directly with models, locations, and group dynamics, pushing past “street” into identity-driven practice. Limited to 12 seats for full interaction.

After the Street — ONLINE Seminar

Join from anywhere in the world. The online seminar gives you full access to the live sessions—lectures, demonstrations, and discussions—in real time. You’ll witness the critiques, exercises, and process, absorbing the same concepts from your own space. Perfect for those who want the experience and knowledge without traveling.

YOUR INSTRUCTOR

“TEACHING MUST BE AN EXPERIENCE TAUGHT BY THOSE WHO HAVE EXPERIENCED. THERE IS NO OTHER WAY.” – BIL BROWN

Whether working in portraiture, fashion, experimental work or diaristic photo essays, Bil Brown’s visionary imagery captures highly energetic moments and extremities of the conscious world, or the foreboding of prescience — of what is to come. Often using his work as a platform for advanced ideas, social-change, and excising historical reference addressing current events, Brown pushes the boundaries of his visual storytelling as a “concrete-poetry” infused with empathy for our current cultural milieu. Bil’s work excels in long-form essays, exhibitions, books and prints exploring a single subject or theme. Maintaining a recognizable voice across all media. Oft an editorial contributor to magazines and periodicals such as FLAUNT, PURPLE FASHION MAGAZINE, AUTRE, INTERVIEW, SCHON DETAILS, PAPER, The Sunday Times (UK), Le Monde (FR), Mala Fronta DNES (CZ), and founding editor and publisher of Black & Grey magazine. Bil also is the founder and president of the creative agency NINESIXTYNINE, and is often a presenter for LEICA AKADAMIE worldwide.

Bil’s still photography has been exhibited in numerous group and solo shows. His 2018 show at the Leica Gallery LA, in conjunction with the estate of the late Jim Marshall, PROTEST, vehemently documented the 2016-2017 protests following the election of an American President. In 2020, during the global pandemic, Bil started a teaching series with Leica Akademie entitled Fragments Toward the History of Photography. In 2021, Bil’s series MYLAR was made into NFTs and held gallery shows at two galleries in Vienna, Austria and now for the first time is at Tamarkin Camera in Chicago July-September, 2025!