Workshop

Candid Street Photography Workshop

No scripts. No setups. Just Juxtaposition. This workshop isn’t about teaching you how to control the streets — it’s about training your eye to see what no one else notices. We walk through Istanbul’s chaos not with rules, but with instinct, timing, and humor. You’ll learn how to frame the unexpected, how to use color like a language, and how to let coincidence work in your favor. Come unprepared. Leave with sharper vision. It isn’t just a walk through the chaos of Istanbul — it’s a 4-day experience designed to help you notice, interpret, and reframe the city’s rhythm. Each day focuses on a different layer: • Visual awareness and theory • On-the-street practice • Selective editing • Feedback and collective review This is more than just capturing moments. It’s about sensing humor, tension, color, and composition — and sharpening your candid instincts. Because to truly feel Istanbul, you need more than footsteps — you need a frame of mind.

Duration

24–30 hrs

Details

Hints and tips provided during the session if preferred

Routes can be altered based on preferences

Staged photos are exercised during the session

Models are provided based on stagings during the session

Gökhan Arer

İstanbul, Turkey

English, Türkçe

An Istanbul-based candid street photographer and a chemical engineer by profession. Since 2015, I’ve been walking the chaotic streets of this city with one simple goal: to frame the unexpected. My work focuses on spontaneous juxtapositions that can’t be staged — illusions found in everyday life, visible only for a fleeting moment. I do — unscripted, vibrant, and full of visual irony. Photography, for me, is not just documentation — it’s a moment of escape. A pause. A punchline.