Vision Lab: How to build a sustainable media practice, reach new audiences, and initiate change

Workshop with Uwe H. Martin

The Vision Lab is a wide-open, deeply personal, challenging, and hands-on workshop for people who desire to develop journalism/film/photography beyond traditional limits, reach new audiences, build a sustainable media practice, and initiate change in the world.

The workshop will cover a wide range of alternative publication and financing strategies for documentary work. It will dive into grant writing, expert status, personal brand, and professional identity. It focuses on the long tail and explores what makes projects connectable to contexts far beyond media. It aims to help you develop your personal and professional vision, projects, and strategies.

In previous versions of the Vision Lab, participants have created linear web documentaries and storyboards; developed ideas on how to build a publication bridge from print, online, and mobile into spatial installations and theatre plays; written proposals and financing plans; and developed concepts for tying individual stories into a larger narrative. Others clarified where they wanted to go professionally, identified new markets and audiences, and built a strategy for reaching them. So, whether you are just starting your career, want to give it a new direction, or looking to take your project to the next level, the Vision Lab is for you.

Deadline of application: 5th September, 2025.

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