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If you like traveling, photography and learning from the best, read this!
Posted on: September 22, 2011

This year Yuri Arcurs Photography is putting together an elite international academy program in the hope of producing the most competent and gifted photography class of 2015. This private funded program runs for three years, during which participants will be given a once in a lifetime opportunity to experience travel to exotic locations, a first-class photography education from some of the industry’s leading experts, and working experience through interactions with real projects, clients and top models.

We are looking to recruit 10 – 15 candidates, who will have to prove they are motivated, ambitious and bright. You will be given the opportunity to prove you have what it takes at our two-week long photography boot camp in January 2012. Very little photography knowledge is needed, we will equip you with what you need to know.

During the 3 year education you will have exams in the following subjects:
• The technical skills required to use all Nikon, Canon and Hasselblad cameras.
• Video recording and editing with SLR camera’s, RED epic and others.
• Basic and advanced photoshopping.
• Advanced RAW processing.
• Advanced digital image theory.
• Shoot planning and execution planning.
• Creative research, Image Critique.
• Branding, Client managing, Invoicing, Legal aspects.

How to qualify:
In order to qualify for the program, you must pass a 2 week boot camp in Cape Town, South Africa. The boot camp offers all it’s participants an opportunity to receive first-class photography training, even those who do not get accepted into the program.
To be considered for the photography boot camp you must:
• Manage your own accommodations and travel into Cape Town for the boot camp duration.
• Bring your own digital SLR camera that can produce at least 16 mega pixel images.
• Bring at least one 50mm or 85mm lens that can shoot no less than 2.0 in aperture.
• Bring at least 16 Gb of memory for your camera (CF preferred).
• Be able to stay 2 weeks in Cape Town for training and assignments from January 3rd 2012.
• Be able to dedicate 3 years of your life for this education starting from January 23rd 2012 and have no problem spending up to half of the year in all parts of the world with the primary base in Cape Town, South Africa.
• Have no criminal record or any other criteria that would not allow you to travel to Europe or other places.
• Agree to potentially being part of a TV production about the boot camp for reality TV.

How to apply:
Contact us no later than DECEMBER 1st on [email protected] and make sure to mark the mail “Photography student” and include ALL of the following to be considered for the education:
• Motivation letter – tell us why you are interested in this education.
• Your CV.
• Any reference letter from previous employers.
• Something about yourself.
• A photograph of yourself.
• A statement showing a clean criminal record.

The final class candidates will be announced on JANUARY 17th 2012. The best candidates will be offered a job at Yuri Arcurs Photography after graduation.

Click here to see the flyer!

NB: PLEASE NOTE THAT ANY ATTEMPT TO CONTACT YURI HIMSELF DIRECTLY WILL DISQUALIFY YOU FROM BEING CONSIDERED!

I'm intrigued by this! I can't work out where the money is coming from for Yuri. The 'reality TV show' thing sounds like a hook to me. I can't see watching people taking photo's making prime-time viewing.

Mix in some love triangles, backstabbing, distraught models, losers being sent home with dreams crushed and a comic sleezeball or two.  Could work. 

Who do you think is going to hold the copyright on 3 years of photos from 10-15 "photographers".  Talk about flooding the market.  Unbelievable.

LOL, I'm not available.  I've already got a conflict between being on "Next Food Network Star" and "Survivor: Denmark".

Seriously, if the point of this isn't just to crush everyone here, I don't know what it is.  "Sharing" at its best!

LOL!

Very interesting program. A lot more intense than istocks "Feast" or the Lypses. The people walking out of that training will be really very experienced.

Looks like Yuri will be in the industry for a long time.

Actually, this is brilliant.  The models turn into celebrities on the reality show and Yuri has their model-released imagery to sell forever.  Nice.

3 years is a really long time.  I would be concerned that there would be any market left for new contributors after that time.  There isn't much point in learning how to be like Yuri now when there are so many people already doing it.

The reality TV bit made me do a double take.  I know there's a reality TV show about almost everything now but is learning photoshop going to make compelling viewing?  I suppose they will skip that and concentrate on the models.  There's so many TV channels now, I suppose there's going to be shows about everything.

10-15 photographers travelling around the world - I'm guessing Yuri is moving into editorial stock, for which the only real skill you need is being able to be somewhere with a camera, I'm sure they'll get some training about the basics of photography, they'll certainly get educated in giving away copyright 

Wow!  What a tremendous opportunity for some lucky photographers!  This could potentially change the lives of people in a serious way. 

Yuri, you've got the resources, the vision and the stones to make bold moves ...more power to you!  I've got a wife, kids, mortgage, etc. Otherwise, I would be first in line!   

We can all sit back and say we're content with being a one man army till we're blue in the face.  I will say this; if I could figure out a way to jump ahead a few steps and earn millions of dollars as a photographer I would not hesitate for one fraction of an instant to employ an army of assistants to help me along the way.

Good luck!

Mat

eheheh Yuri is just playing at his best once more! trying to make us think and get depressed while his empire get bigger and richer, thats a great strategy, I hope more will quit as we keep on working and enjoying these kind of posts (right after the falling of IS topic from last week)

YAYYY

BRILLANT!   Im glad he is my country neighbour!  we Scandinavians are pretty clever arent we. I wish him luck, he has got more balls then all of us put together.

For those of you laughing?  dont!  in a few year you might be in for a shock.

Good luck to you mate!  

best.