How not to photograph correctly:
A hands-on workshop

Photography as a tool for developing inspiration, creative thinking and the imagination

In times of pressure and routine, creativity is an essential resource for gaining success.

How not to photograph correctly' is a practical and fun workshop in which the camera is just a medium and photography is just a tool to free the mind, stimulate the imagination, and challenge existing habits and fixations. In the workshop, we will dive into worlds of disruption, intuition, and randomness and discover new ways of seeing, thinking, and creating, with the intention of coming up with tools for creative thinking that will serve you in any field. No need to be a photography aficionado - anyone can participate.

The workshop content draws from the art world, a world where artists are required to disrupt, shatter thinking patterns, innovate and see creatively every day anew. To find inspiration and the unexpected — so how do they do it? What tools develop creative thinking?

We are used to thinking in patterns and in processes. This is how our brain is wired - to use existing knowledge instead of thinking from scratch about every task and challenge. The brain will always try to categorize and fit every word, image, situation, or challenge into a familiar pattern from the past. And in order to overcome the limitations of process-oriented-thinking, we must disrupt - we need to be experimental, silly, unexpected, wild and daring Non-judgmental - like brainstorming with our irresponsible half. To be comfortable to work with no plan, and without a known goal, breaking down our usual processes in order to overcome and bypass fixations.

Disruption and randomness are values that can be practiced and initiated - and that's what we'll learn together in the workshop. We'll practice breaking free from conventions using photography-based exercises, and once participants get the grip on how to intentionally create disruption and randomness, this knowledge can be applied to any other field of ​​life - professional, creative, and even personal.

Workshop contents:
Participants will experiment - alone and in groups - guided photography challenges that practice values ​​such as:

Disruption
Randomness
Unexpected connections
Working without a goal and in a state of ignorance
Breaking apart and reassembling reality
Working to external and changing rules

All of these are the soft skills necessary to survive in today's professional-technological world.


What won’t we learn?
The goal of the workshop is not to improve your everyday photography skills. We will not talk about exposure or composition. We will not aim to produce photos that are pleasing to the eye, and we will not learn which photos are more successful on Social networks.

Who is this workshop for?
For everyone! The workshop is aimed at companies and organizations interested in encouraging innovation and the acquisition of boundary-breaking thinking patterns. You don't need to be a photography enthusiast, you don't need prior experience, and you don't need professional photography equipment.

Recommendations:

“A workshop that invites us to confront the mental fixation that limits us during creative and thinking processes, and then provides practical tools to break through the fixation and release creative freedom”
Prof. Oren Zuckerman, Founder of the Innovation Lab, Reichman University

"It was so much fun!!! An excellent and extraordinary workshop. Allows everyone to be creative, and it's especially lovely to see how each participant thinks differently. Highly recommended."
Limor S., IBM, January 2025

Contact us and we will plan the workshop that suits your needs:

• Workshop duration: 1-3 hours
• The workshop can be held in any location, indoors or outdoors
• The exercises can be adapted to a specific theme or topic
• Groups of 5-30 participants
• Language: Hebrew/English

Contact me

For further information or booking a workshop, please contact me:

Telephone/ WhatsApp:  +972-(0)544-566-612

E-mail: bezalel@ben-chaim.com​

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Download a PDF brochure of this workshop (Hebrew)