picture editor One-year certificate program
The Ostkreuz School of Photography in Berlin Weissensee is one of the few institutions that forms image editors. Dates
Application deadline:
annually in November
Interviews:
annually in December
Duration: March to February
Teaching: Block instruction six days (Sunday to Friday) once a month
1st semester: March to July
2nd semester: September to January
February: final presentation with certificate presentation
Lecturers
– Nadja Masri
Days of seminars and
Head of the class image editors
– Dr. Enno Kaufhold
history of photography and exhibitions
– Betty Fink, Free Photo Project manager
teaching units
60 teaching days; each taught day consists of 4 double hours
requirements
– 21 years or older
– Passion for photography
– Good English knowledge
> Please note that our classes are taught in German.
Fee
€ 370.00 per month
plus 19% VAT.
for 2 semesters of 5 months
One-time annual payment receives 3% discount
Content of the seminar
In the seminar current trends and debates in photography especially in photojournalism, are taken up and discussed. Many image searches are made, still images and stories are evaluated and edited. Different genres in photography, operating nationally and internationally photographers and agencies are presented and discussed. Portfolios and proposals are evaluated in the seminar, topics researched and photographers briefed. What is learnt is applied and practiced in exercises and projects. Lectures by guest lecturers and visits to editors, publishers and agencies will complete the program.
Guest lecturers
– Mustafa Abdulaziz, American photographer, Berlin
– Michael Biedowicz, picture editor at ZEIT magazine and gallery owner of Pavlov’s Dog, Berlin
– Tibor Bogun, former Managing Director ZEIT, Berlin
– Carmen Brunner, picture editor of the magazine Dummy & Fluter, Berlin
– Bernd Dinkel, Free Image Editor, Hamburg
– Doug Dubois, American photographer, Syracuse, NY
– Matt Eich, american photographer, Charlottesville, VA
– Sebastian Graalfs, specialist lawyer for copyright and media law, Berlin
– Corinna Koch, free image editor (among others Freitag, music magazine), USA
– Andi Kunze, free image editor (among others GEO, Vorwärts), Berlin
– Judith Levitt, multimedia producer and lecturer at Columbia University and the International Center of Photography, New York
– Lars Lindemann, Chef GEO, Hamburg
– Kevin Mertens, Emerge – Magazine for Young Photojournalism, Berlin
– Merlin Nadj-Torma, photographer, Berlin
– Annette Samaras, image archivists, Berlin
– Peter Unterthurner, former ZEIT, Hamburg
– Birgit Wieland, Head of HR & Legal, Berliner Zeitung / newspaper holding, Berlin
– Hannes Wanderer, 25books & Peperoni Books, Berlin
– Fabian White, German photographer, Tallinn, Estonia
more Info at:
www.oks-lab.de
facebook
Book series in cooperation with the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York – published so far:
New York Edited. Belonging
New York Edited. Out of Place,
New York Edited. Raw,
New York. Bonds & Borders,
New York Edited. Cityscapes,
New York Edited. On the streets and beyond and
New York Edited. 12 Stories From the City
Photo book Dummies«Flucht»
on behalf of Peter Bitzer, manager of the agency «laif» in Cologne
«Thingstätten»
for Prof. Katharina Bosse, Bielefeld Polytechnic designing magazines Dummies in cooperation with the Henri Nannen School in Hamburg – a magazine published for the first time in autumn 2016
Supplement to the «Neues Deutschland» with the thesis of the photographer of the year 9
– go photo
Edit of the photographic works of 13 magnificent young photographers for the exhibition catalogue in Düsseldorf in 2013. Initiated and organized by Svenja Paulsen, a graduate of the image editors class of the Ostkreuzschule, 2012/2013.
– Dummy – Nr. 35: Tourist
image search
Development and design of blogs and editors with authors,
Blogger from service, Editors and Community Management. Showcase for students and alumni of OKS: Semester and final theses of photographers and picture editors, commissioned works, books, exhibition and competition participations, interviews with photographers, picture editors and lecturers
www.oks-lab.deBlogwww.editforthemasses.de
Blog of image editors category 2011/2012
about the photographer Ostkreuz Agency headed by Betty Fink, Maik Reichert, Stephan Cleef:
2014 portrait of Anne Schönharting and Linn Schröder, 2013 portrait of Harald Hauswald and Thomas Meyer, shown at «interfilm», International Short Film Festival, Berlin (Meyer auf oks-lab) 2012 Portrait of Annette Hausschild, Tobias Kruse and Jordis Schlösser on the occasion of “Ostkreuz – Beyond Borders” exhibition at the House of World Cultures, Nov. 2012 2011 Portrait of Dawin Meckel, Espen Eichhöfer and Julian Röder on the occasion of the exhibition “The City” at C|O Berlin etc.
– C|O Berlin – Exhibition House for Photography- Hatje Cantz – Verlag
– C3 (formerly Kircher Burkhard), Agency for narrative branding
– Hannes Wanderer, 25 books.com bookstore & Peperoni Books
– ZEIT Magazine – Editorial Visit & participation in the editorial meeting
Cicero
C3 (former KircherBurkhardt)
Die Zeit
Die Zeit Hamburg
Der Spiegel
Dummy
Emerge – Magazin für jungen Fotojournalismus
Fluter
Fluter Online
Freitag
GEO
GEO Epoche
GEO kompakt
Hoffmann & Campe Corporate Publishing
Laif – Agency for Photos & Reports
Motabor – Die Agentur für ganzheitliches Markendesign
Neon
Neues Deutschland
Plainpictures
Roba Images
Rolling Stones
Studio Andreas Wellnitz
Vorwärts
Walden
wdv
class of 2012/2013 | photo: © Werner Mahler
Nadja Masri in class | photo: © Chantal Alexandra Pilsl
New York Edited. Raw – before print | photo: © Chantal Alexandra Pilsl
Book Dummy «Flucht» | photo: © Chantal Alexandra Pilsl
edit exercise
edit exercise in groups
visiting Hannes Wanderer | photo: © Florian von Plötz
Portfolio Review | photo: © Chantal Alexandra Pilsl
final 2015/2016 | photo: © Bastian Thiery
New York Edited. Raw Book Launch | photo: © Ina Schoenenburg
