(Update: Fully booked)

By Rafal Milach & Rob Hornstra on April 8-9, 2024 in Utrecht (NL)

Are you a photographer with the ambition to publish your own photo book? Do you want to make more impact with your next photo book in the art world or beyond? Is it a mystery to you how to finance a photo book? Do you wonder how to approach a publisher or do you consciously consider to self-publish? Or you just want to better understand the industry behind the world of photo books?

Join Magnum photographer Rafał Milach and Rob Hornstra for a two-day intensive workshop focusing on sharing information and experience through presentations and conversations.

This workshop is a crash course for photographers who want to prepare for publishing their (next) photo book. In the morning, relevant topics will be covered, such as whether every work is suitable for a book, collaboration with designers and publishers, is there a formula for success and how to apply for financing a book. In brief afternoon session, you can test a book project for feasibility and chances of success.

Rafał Milach (1978) and Rob Hornstra (1975) are experienced workshop teachers. Together they have (self-)published more than 30 books in small and larger print runs and unconventional forms of publication such as free newspapers. They have accumulated a wealth of experience, not only in publishing but also in reaching an audience. More detailed information in the biographies at bottom of this page.

Monday 8 / Tuesday 9 April, 2024
From 9:30 until 17:00
Achter de Dom 22-24, Utrecht
Max. number of participants: 15
Workshop fee: €375 excl. VAT
Language: English

Coffee, tea, water and lunch during the day included and free entry to the FOTODOK Book Club in Tivoli Vredenburg on Thursday 8 April 2024 from 20:00 - 21:30.

How do you create freedom to follow your passion and be able to invest your time in doing what you love: Creating your own independent visual stories?

Are you a photographer/storyteller working on long-term projects with the ambition to publish or exhibit and thus reach an audience? Are you wondering how to generate attention for your photography project among all the other amazing projects? Do you struggle with funding your projects? Or you hardly find time to work on your own project because the majority of your energy goes to earning a living?

Join Laia Abril and Rob Hornstra for a two-day intensive workshop, focusing on sharing information and experience through presentations and conversations. The aim of the workshop is to sharpen your career path and prepare your work for publication or presentation with the potential to stand out from other projects. A larger objective is to help you in creating more independence and become liberated photographers/storytellers, ready to begin sharing your stories with the world.

Thursday 8 / Friday 9 December, 2022
From 9:30 until 17:00
Achter de Dom 22-24, Utrecht
Max. number of participants: 18
Workshop fee: €275 excl. VAT
Early bird discount until Nov 10: €50
Language: English

In collaboration with The Fort Institute of Photography I will teach my workshop Do-It-Yourself-Storytelling in Warsaw, Poland during the weekend of 23 and 24 November 2019. It’s the only workshop I’m doing this year. The next opportunity will come at the earliest at the end of 2020. Application deadline is next Sunday November 3, 2019 via the website of The Fort Institute of Photography (link below).

Workshop for photographers, designers and storytellers who wish to learn how to construct and present long-term photography projects. This workshop is about creating freedom to do what YOU want to do: Make stories and present them in the way you wish by finding the right audience and funds. Sign up before March 30, 2018 via link below.

Three years ago I organised my first two-day workshop Do-it-yourself storytelling in my home town of Utrecht. The current exhibition of my new project Man Next Door in the Centraal Museum is a good occasion for a reprise. The workshop will take place in the Centraal Museum educational room adjacent to the Man Next Door exhibition. Both days will conclude with a guest lecturer’s contribution: On Friday Donald Weber will arrange a crash course in grant writing and on Saturday Arnold van Bruggen about online publishing. Afterwards drinks in a local pub.

The workshop is fully booked. Click on the link below to be placed on the waiting list.

Update: Workshop is fully booked! No spots available anymore.
Workshop for photographers, designers and storytellers who wish to learn how to construct and present long-term photography projects. This workshop is about creating freedom to do what YOU want to do: Make stories and present them in the way you wish by finding the right audience and funds. Come to Bozen on October 21 and 22, 2017 and join me for an intensive two days. Tuition fee is €250.

Together with The Sochi Project’s co-author Arnold van Bruggen I will teach a three-day workshop ‘How to make things happen’ in Luxembourg from July 14-16, 2017. The workshop is organized by Centre National de l’Audiovisuel (CNA), which explains the low registration fee and the fact that there is only one spot left. You’d better hurry if you want to participate this summer. Update: It is fully booked.

All spots for the workshop D.I.Y. Storytelling in collaboration with IC Visual Lab and Arnolfini museum in Bristol are reserved. Would you still like to participate, please sign up for the waiting list by sending an email to info@icvl.co.uk. Most likely a next workshop D.I.Y. Storytelling will be organized in Luxembourg this summer. Would you like to stay informed? Please send an email with your contact details to workshop@robhornstra.com.

Workshop for photographers, designers and storytellers who wish to learn how to construct and present long-term photography projects. This workshop is about creating freedom to do what YOU want to do: Make stories and present them in the way you wish by finding the right audience and funds. Come to Bristol on February 11th and 12th, 2017 and join me for an intensive two days. Tuition fee is €229 until December 19th, after is €275. Collaboration with IC Visual Lab and Arnolfini museum.

Organized by the Month of Photography in Minsk and financed by the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, my two-day workshop Do-It-Yourself Storytelling for a selected group of Belarusian photographers took place on September 7 and 8, 2016. Stay tuned about future workshops by signing up for the newsletter.

I am pleasantly surprised by the fact that Belarus has decided to grant me a visa to attend the opening week of the Month of Photography in Minsk (MPM). The Sochi Project exhibition opening will take place on Tuesday September 6, 2016 at 7 pm at “CECH” Art Gallery. My Do-It-Yourself workshop for young Belarusian photographers will take place on 7 and 8 September. More information about both events can be found on the website of MPM.

Sometimes you want to be somewhere, but your agenda doesn’t allow. My close colleagues Arnold van Bruggen and Anoek Steketee were doing a workshop in Riga about Long-term Documentary Projects: how to make an impact, find an audience and get the best results. I could only join them virtually on Sunday for one hour.

Do-It-Yourself Storytelling workshop taking place in Delhi, end of October 2015 during the Delhi Photo Festival. This two-day workshop focusses on how to understand the current media market (magazines, books, exhibitions, grants, etc.) and dos & don’ts in self-publishing and crowd funding. How can you create the stories you want in your own voice? Learn to see opportunities and make your future.

​My next Do-It-Yourself Storytelling workshop will take place in Zagreb, during the highly interesting Organ Vida Photo Festival. This two-day workshop focusses on how to understand the current media market (magazines, books, exhibitions, grants, etc.) and dos & don’ts in self-publishing and crowd funding. How can you create the stories you want in your own voice? Learn to see opportunities and make your future.

Early bird sign up including festival t-shirt and bag: 190 euro (until July 3, 2015).

​For the first time in Utrecht, Netherlands. My two-day workshop focusses on how to understand the current media market (magazines, books, exhibitions, grants, etc.) and dos & don’ts in self-publishing and crowd funding. How can you create the stories you want in your own voice? Learn to see opportunities and make your future. SOLD OUT.

​Join me for a two-day workshop in Barcelona, Spain at the end of February 2015. Learn how to understand the current media market (magazines, books, exhibitions, grants, etc.), how to self-publish a book and how to create the stories you want in your own voice. Learn to see opportunities and make your future. 
SOLD OUT.

My next workshop will be in Brighton, UK, organized by The Miniclick Photography Talks and simultaneously with the Brighton Photo Fringe Festival and the Brighton Photo Biennial. Enough reasons to spend your Autumn break in the south of England. My two-day workshop focusses on how to understand the current media market (magazines, books, exhibitions, grants, etc.) and dos & don’ts in self-publishing and crowd funding. How can you create the stories you want in your own voice? Learn to see opportunities and make your future​

​Join me for a two-day workshop in Cortona, a beautiful town in the middle of Tuscany, Italy. Learn over a two-day workshop how to understand the current media market (magazines, books, exhibitions, grants, etc.), how to self-publish a book and how to create the stories you want in your own voice. Learn to see opportunities and make your future.

​Many ambitious photographers are conservative when it comes to presenting their projects, offering their work—often free of charge—to newspapers, magazines, or book publishers. They put their fate in the hands of others and wait. That’s unnecessary. This workshop’s main objective is to help students become liberated photographers and publishers, ready to begin sharing their stories with the world

Many ambitious photographers are conservative when it comes to presenting their projects, offering their work—often free of charge—to newspapers, magazines, or book publishers. They put their fate in the hands of others and wait. That’s unnecessary. This workshop’s main objective is to help students become liberated photographers and publishers, ready to begin sharing their stories with the world.​

I’ll be doing a seminar / mini-workshop in Chicago on Saturday January 18, 10.00 am - 1.00 pm. Location: DePaul Art Museum, 935 W. Fullerton Ave., Chicago, IL 60614 Fee: $75. Please follow the link for more info and to register.​

​This workshop is about what we all desire as storytellers and photographers: Freedom. Learn to see opportunities and make your future.

This workshop is about what we all desire as storytellers and photographers: Freedom. Freedom creates opportunity. Opportunity makes your future. As photographers, Rob Hornstra and Donald Weber have each found their own vision of freedom, creating significant bodies of work in their own way. Learn from both Rob and Don over a two-day workshop how to understand the current media market (magazines, books, exhibitions, grants, etc.) and bypass it altogether, allowing you to create the stories you want in your own voice. Learn to see opportunities and make your future. Sold out.