When a Street Photography workshop is a bad workshop?
Having been teaching photography for over ten years I believe I have some authority to write this.
The street photography workshop is bad when:
When you are presented with street photography as a genre;
When the group is more than 10 photographers;
When you spend most of the time in class;
When the teacher presents slides by analyzing only his photos;
When the teacher only leans on slides but shows that he knows very little about the history of photography and visual culture;
When the teacher imposes rules without being able to stimulate a vision in the student, without being able to understand and bring out and respect her personality;
When the reading of the students images lasts little or very little, without making you really understand why and how, without really analyzing the image, helping the participating photographer to have the minimum basics of how to read an image, highlighting its weaknesses and strengths ;
When the instructor does not provide a mentoring program following the workshop in order not to waste what has just been started during the workshop;
When the instructor does not have the stature to be able to tell you how to achieve real results with photography because he / she has never actually achieved them (example one who does another job or who in any case has never really been published or has not achieved any really important results with photography);
