Photo Marathon in Reykjavik

Name: Photo Marathon in Reykjavik
Start: 2018-07-26
End: 2022-08-29
Location: Reykjavík, Iceland

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Iceland Art Culture Education Study Teenagers Art Culture +3 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The association was founded in 2005 as a non-governmental, non-profit volunteer organisation with international scope. Their main activities relate to the promotion of environmental protection and awareness, intercultural understanding and peace, through voluntary work on social, cultural and environmental projects in Iceland. They aim expand the horizons of people of all ages, cultures, and backgrounds, to inform and share with them about the world in which we live and to take an active role in its future development.

💼 What the programme involves

This is the fifteenth year (since 2008) that SEEDS organises a series of International Photo marathons, while we started organising camps open for teenagers in the year 2010.

Throughout the year participants from all over the world come to Iceland for an immersive photography-related learning camp. SEEDS coordinators help the participants to develop their unique photographic skills through workshops and feedback sessions on technical settings, compositional considerations as well as to create conceptual frameworks highlighting the participants’ individual style.

Participants will have time to put the theory about photography into practice, walking around and exploring the city. At the end of the camp, the best photographs from each participant are selected for an online exhibition on SEEDS' social media.

While learning about photography the participants explore Icelandic culture by taking part in it, capturing it and also by displaying their work during the camp. One of our objectives is to deliver environmental as well as cultural messages and draw attention through pictures taken in the camp.

🏠 Accommodation on site

SEEDS’ participants will stay in a house in Reykjavík. The facilities are basic with a kitchen, showers, and a washing machine. Everyone is expected to show consideration for their companions. Participants will sleep in shared rooms. They need to bring their own sleeping bags. Participants from other
camps may also stay in the house.

🍲 Food

Participants will receive food supplies and be in charge of the cooking and cleaning activities.

📍 About the location

TERMINAL: Closest international Airport: Keflavík/Reykjavík (KEF). Bus station: Central Reykjavík (BSÍ).
Reykjavík is a dynamic, modern city which lives in harmony with nature, using renewable energy sources. The world’s northernmost capital bridges the Atlantic, between Europe and North America. Reykjavík is spread across a peninsula with a panoramic view of the mountains and the Atlantic. It is an international city with a lively cosmopolitan cultural scene surrounded by beautiful nature.

🎒 Leisure activities

Participants will be photographing in their free time outside of workshop hours with images to be discussed at group feedback sessions.

Additional excursions (eg. Hot River Hike, Snæfellsnes or Reykjanes Peninsula) can be arranged at discount fares in case there is additional free time after the workshops and sessions of the camp.

⚠️ Requirements

English will be the language in the camp; basic conversational skills are needed

Participants should bring their own digital cameras, lenses, tripods and laptops if possible.

Participants should be ready to spend time outdoors walking medium distances during activities and working within a flexible time schedule.

Participants should bring food, music, games or films and such from their own culture to share at the international evening.

It may be cold and/or rainy, so we recommend bringing warm and waterproof clothes (underlayers, overcoats, scarves, gloves and hats) and good walking shoes, as some of the activities take place outdoors.

🤝 Meeting point

Meeting time will be 18:00 (6:00 pm) in the afternoon of August 21 at the BSÍ bus station or at SEEDS office. Participants that cannot arrive on time (later flights) will be sent information on how to reach the camp location.

ℹ️ Additional information

Note that this project is a learning/sharing camp and not a regular workcamp; it has a smaller work part and puts more emphasis on the personal learning process than on the community impact. We may be able to organise some outdoor voluntary work, but it depends on our partners and the weather conditions.

Participation fee EUR 550 (Euros), which needs to be transferred to SEEDS the latest one month before the camp starts to confirm the placement of the participant/s. The fee includes transportation from the meeting point to the camp (on the first day), the Golden Circle and South Shore excursions (1 full day trip each). We will visit spectacular waterfalls, geysers, a glacier, impressive coastline, a volcano crater, the Thingvellir National Park and much more.

Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.