Create Powerful Photo Essays & Personal Projects with David H Wells

This class has incredible in depth information from creating a series to writing about it and then talking about it to access grants and exhibitions. David does a great job speaking on a level for any photographer and is captivating sharing his work and the work of others. After this course I have practical knowledge on where to begin my photo series but also how to put together a series I may already have. Thank you David for a wonderful class.

I have purchased a number of classes on Creative Live. This class taught by David Wells is one of the best. David is a thorough teacher, personal and connects with his students. Along with his superb and inspiring imagery David talked about his experiences in getting funding, his workflow, developing his stories and distributing his work. David is talented, generous and an excellent teacher. Highly recommended class.

After completing the class where I was given a lot of practical information, I am happy to say it was very enlightening and instructive. Thank you for this. It has helped me on various issues to move forward hopefully successfully in my craft.

Just completed the course. Fantastic, practical information on everything from grant writing, finding foundations, proposal development, even how to shake hands overseas. I am not sure where else I would have found this information for photographers. So appreciate it. One friend asked if this would be worth watching for anyone outside the US and the answer is a definitive yes. Very happy I purchased, and already starting to implement.

I haven't yet completed the course, but wow! This is one of the most applicable photography workshops I have seen or attended. David gets into specific detail on how to not only construct an essay, but how to use it to set yourself apart from everyone else, and how to use it to get third party validation. The course approach applies to all types of photography and all types of clients. I wanted to attend this workshop in person, but wasn't able to. Now I'm almost glad I didn't attend, because now I have it on Creative Live and can reference the material anytime I want. Kerry

Loving this course. I wish this class had been made BEFORE I started my uni degree in photography. It would have saved me so much heartache as far as learning how to put together a photo essay etc. Could you please advise when the PDF's/notes of David's entire PP Presentation (his class) will be available? Thankyou David for such an intensive and interesting course. I am in your debt!

Brilliant and inspirational in equal measure. The best online course I've ever taken.

I found this class to be packed full of information on not only doing photo essays but also a way to bring them to purpose. There are many avenues for our photos and essays and personal projects are a great place to start. I highly recommend buying this class as a reference because of the amount of information given.

Thank you so much Creative Live for this great workshop and thank you David for sharing all your skills and knowledge. I have learnt so much and now know how to go about doing some of my own projects.

Thank you Creative Live and Mr. David H. Wells for presenting this workshop! This has been such a great experience and I have learned so much. Three intense days jam packed with so much information! I finally have learned the art of critiquing photos and what will make my proposals stand out. I can also apply some of the things here to other creative pursuits.

Extremely helpful and informative course--one of the best I've taken at CL!

First off, I was a photo assistant for a few years to a photographer who did numerous multi-day workshops. This was my first time as a student sitting in on a webinar that actually kept me interested. Sometimes I'm turned off by the pace of the teacher, his or her voice, or the manner in which they disseminate the information. But this was truly fantastic. David showed lots of his work in a way that was NOT egotistical in any sense (something that does happen quite often). I was utterly impressed by the quality of his work, the wealth of knowledge he has on the world, culture and politics, and how he shoots "on the go". All of those qualities are essential parts to creating a great photo essay/story. I came into this seminar needing inspiration and in the end I have more ideas than I know what to do with. David's work is truly magnificent; his photo stories pertain to people and their struggles, which really could be something any one of us could go through at any point, but he shows it in a way that is beautiful - either beautifully desperate or beautifully destructive - instead of in an exploitative way. On a side note, he also offered up a lot of great information having to do with funding, exposure, workflow, time efficiency, income streams, releases... you won't find this a lot with other photographers. You will find the "go find the info yourself" attitude. This has been my problem as of late with photography - we don't work together as artists, we work against each other competing for what, I'm not sure. David's seminar seemed to embrace photography as the art form it is, and shared with us the tools that we as artists need to really understand and utilize in order to get our story out there. A story it seems he really wants to see/hear. Just an amazing "Thank You"!!!!

Thank you Creativelive for bringing David Wells live over these past three days. Thank you too, for the privilege of purchasing the seminar downloads so I can further study at will. I have many new skills to practice for 10,000 hours each. To have David as a virtual mentor is a gift. Natalie Robbins

Talk about compelling, dynamic and vivid! David Wells definitely delivered all he promised and more! My work is cut out for me in reviewing what I've been doing and take all this priceless info and apply. This 3 day workshop has me feeling that I'm a better photographer for just attending. I am so psyched to go forward. This is a must for photographers! :)

I just bought the class. Thank you so much - this has been one of the most valuable overall photography classes I've seen. - NeoRen

I've been requesting courses in Photo Essays, Documentary photography & Photojournalism for the past several years. The question has been how to teach this in a studio setting...David has shown us how it's done! I love his mixture of lecture, examples and most of all the VIDEOS. Well done David! My favorite Creative Live course EVER!

The course is amazing. David is thorough, easy-going, prepared and the material is rocking my world. It's exactly what I needed to know to continue with my work.