Rome-Milan Multi-City Premium Workshop

Rome-Milan Multi-City Premium Workshop

Decoding Fine Art & Celebrating the Architecture Design

Multi-City Premium: 2 Cities + 1 | 6 Days + 1

After the Dual City Workshop in Spain, we are now announcing a 6-day Fine-art architectural photography workshop from October 9 to October 14, 2025, in Rome and Milan in Italy. With a 7th 'tag-along non-workshop day' in a ’surprise’ location on October 15.

After attending this workshop, with like-minded people in an inspiring (and fun) group, you will have gained valuable insights into fine art and architectural photography that go far beyond the superficial and the mainstream. Read some testimonials here for an impression. And read here more about the concepts behind the City Workshops.

Introducing Two New Workshop Types
Having made a comeback after 10 years by conducting successful workshops in Berlin and then in Barcelona/Madrid/Valencia, Joel Tjintjelaar is announcing another multi-city architecture workshop that is further refined and elevated. We have also renamed it to Multi-City Premium Workshops to reflect our objectives. Simultaneously, we are introducing a more compact City Weekend workshop in Hamburg in August 2025. See here for more background info and here for the Compact City Weekend workshop.

1-3-7 - 1 workshop - 3 locations - 7 days

137 is known as the magic number, and it's no coincidence I'm using it here. It's synchronicity. During the workshop, you will find out more and why. We will start in Rome and photograph there for the first 2 days. On the morning of day 3, we will travel together by high-speed train to Milan (3-hr ride) to continue the workshop there. After the official workshop days, it is highly recommended to join Joel to explore more in Italy on the non-workshop tag-along (7th) day in a very interesting surprise location.

The workshop on location in Italy is preceded by a 4-hour pre-workshop Zoom session to prepare optimally for Italy. As a Post-workshop, there will be 2 processing and Image review Zoom sessions. Possibly followed by a bonus 3rd session.

Strictly Artistic

We never visit the ubiquitous landmarks anywhere in the world, instead, we will have a meaningful mix of architectural structures that carry historical, cultural, or aesthetic meaning to understand and emphasize the importance of an emotional connection with what we wish to photograph and express. In other words, we are not looking for pretty Instagram images, but for structures to connect with emotionally and express ourselves artistically. Practical information is below.

PRACTICAL INFORMATION

TOPICS & THEMES

A theme is the recurring topic in a workshop. Theme for this workshop: Helping you find your unique 'voice' through individuation. Read more about the topics and themes in our workshops here 

WHAT YOU WILL GET 
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A. Readings and Syllabus – 300-page syllabus and counting

We have a 300-page insider syllabus reading that is exclusively created for the Multi-city Premium workshop, to go through before we start with the workshop. It not only covers common and innovative technical aspects, but also theoretical and philosophical aspects of art and photography. The syllabus readings are from October 2024 and are continuously updated and expanded, recently in March 2025. Except for a few essential technical basics, you will find topics, methods, techniques, and thoughts you won't find anywhere else.

B. 2 videos totalling 7 hours

• A brand-new 5.5-hour video on manual B&W post-processing and advanced masking is from June 2024 and is up-to-date, and is included
• A 1.5-hour video on Manual Exposure Blending is included

Live Zoom-sessions

1. Pre-workshop  Zoom session - Fine Art & Architecture preparations: October 5, 2025

• Duration: approx. 3.5 hours
• Students will receive the recording of the session
• Topics: Introduction, Fine art, and architectural photography - theoretical and practical guidelines. Information on the buildings, on-location, routes, and assignments

On-location in Italy sessions

2. The evening before the workshop starts on October 8 is a meet and greet get-together with drinks or perhaps dinner, and you will then receive detailed hand-outs of the buildings, routes, and relevant in-depth information on every building

3a. Workshop days on location: October 9-14, 2025:  All-day guided sessions in the field with lectures, hands-on instructions, and assignments with feedback. We will be out shooting for the largest part of the day.

3b. Non-workshop tag-along day on-location: October 15, 2025: participants are welcome and encouraged to tag along with Joel while he's exploring in a yet-to-be-identified location to photograph for his portfolio. And that comes with a lot of knowledge sharing too.

4. Post-workshop Zoom session 1 - B&W Processing: October 19, 2025

• Duration: approx. 3 hours
• Practical application with guidance and demos of the 5.5-hour video students receive after signing up for the workshop.
• Students will receive the recording of this session
• Topics: B&W Post-processing and masking of the images taken in Italy

5. Post-workshop Zoom session 2 - Image Review & Feedback: November 2, 2025

• Duration: approx. 3.5 hours
• Students will receive the recording of the session
• Topics: Image Feedback and review sessions

What's included - an overview

• The workshop on location (3a) + bonus day (3b), the Pre-workshop Zoom session (1), and the Post-workshop Zoom session (4+5) are included.
• The new 5.5-hr HD-quality B&W processing & Masking reference 2024 video and Manual Exposure Blending video (B) are included 
• The 300-page syllabus (A) is included
• Detailed hand-outs of buildings with in-depth analysis, suggestions, and routes (2) 
• You will receive a PDF upon successful registration for the workshop with more detailed info on the program and other deliverables (such as a syllabus and handouts) you will receive before the workshop starts.

What is not included

• Flights and hotels are not included
• Transfer from and to the airport is not included
• The costs for public transportation on workshop days to and from shooting locations are not included, but we will travel together as much as possible to save costs
• Breakfast/lunch/dinner are not included
• A high-speed train ticket from Rome to Milan and the bonus-day location is not included

Levels

Workshop level: Advanced. We go deep and most likely beyond our comfort zone, and expect serious commitment to fulfil assignments.

Workshop Entry level: Intermediate to Advanced is recommended but Beginners are welcome as long as you don't expect explanations on basic camera settings and handling.

Group size: 10-12 max.

Fitness level: Moderate. We will be out for large parts of the day walking and shooting but it's not an endurance event, and we will ensure there are plenty of resting points.

Our ethical principles

We find it important to actively foster an attitude and environment where everyone is respectful towards one another regardless of one’s skin color, (preferred) gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, or ethnicity and I therefore will not tolerate intolerance by anyone towards another with any of the listed human features. Our mission and priority is to provide a safe environment for everyone in life and in this workshop. Accepting the terms & conditions for the workshops I lead also implies accepting our ethical principles.

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