Los angeles july workshop
DAY & NIGHT - LOS ANGELES, JULY 19-20, 2025
Los Angeles is my home and the most impactful part of my development as a photographer and artist over the last 20 years. I invite you to walk the same streets and learn the same lessons I have learned in Hollywood, DTLA and places in between. But not just the day shooting. Los Angeles comes alive at night, and as photographers we need to understand how to circumnavigate bad light, difficult situations and still get photos that define you.
Join me on the streets of Los Angeles for a photo intensive July 4-5, 2025. The Fourth of July can be the most interesting, colorful time of the year.
We will ask ourselves “WHY” we take photos, and go further into how to get the most impactful images we can muster. You will learn how to use your camera as I do to take impactful photos on the street no matter if it is day or night.
Includes critique session and group project
You will learn:
How to use your camera fast and discreetly on the street
How to use your camera in low light
How to find the stories in the everyday
How to interact with people after-hours
Included: one critique session and future followup over zoom.
Group project
LIMITED spots available. See you on the street.
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT UNTIL JULY 4
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Bil Brown
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 Often using his work as a platform for advanced ideas, social-change, and excising historical reference addressing current events, Brown pushes the boundaries of his visual storytelling as a “concrete-poetry” infused with empathy for our current cultural milieu.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!
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