Get the foundation you need to produce professional photographic projects and elevate your photography and visual storytelling skills with the ongoing support of Sebastian Liste in one-to-one sessions.

ENROLL NOW AND GET:

• • 12 ONE-TO-ONE SESSIONS with Sebastian

  • Access to my signature course, THE PHOTOGRAPHIC STORYTELLER COURSE.

  • Access to my membership, THE COLLECTIVE.

Elevate your photography and transform your ideas into successful projects, share them boldly, and accomplish your goals for your photographic career.

This Mentorship Program will enable you to dive deep into your vision, elevate your career, and move your photography forward. In this Mentorship, I will personally help you develop your projects. This could be: producing and post-producing a powerful photo story, pitching your work to different clients and building your professional network, developing your own book project, designing a gallery exhibition, or preparing a unique body of work to enter a photo agency. In whatever area you need support, I can help you.

My mission now is to help you accelerate your photographic career, applying all my experience and offering my guidance and accountability to make you grow exponentially. 

• Transform your ideas into powerful projects.

• Build a professional network and take your photographic career to the next level.

• Get clarity for your projects and become more organized and productive.

• Start working with intentionality to stay focused and motivated.

• Take your photography seriously and approach your projects professionally.

• Grow your confidence and share your work boldly.

Hey there, I’m SEBASTIAN LISTE

I am a photographer, storyteller, Leica Ambassador, co-owner of NOOR Images, educator, adventure-lover, and multi-passionate creative.

But my journey didn't start like this, of course, if you don't know my story, it's a bit of a wild ride!

I studied sociology and photography. I left school with illusion and lots of projects in mind but broke and with no idea of how to sustain myself as the documentary photographer I wanted to become. "OK, I know how to take good photos and create a portfolio, but now what?" How should I finance my wildest ideas and projects and build a career and a fulfilling life? I had no clue.

My practice started to grow as I began setting slightly higher goals for those dreams. Then I began to trust myself and my work, slowly building a profitable career.

Within a few years, I experienced steady growth, attracting new partnerships and clients, and ever-increasing revenue. It wasn't overnight. Not at all. This kind of progress took me years of little (and big) battles to fight, showing up day after day, establishing myself, and refining my work until I reached those big dreams I had when I left school.

From that humble beginning, I became Leica Ambassador, co-owner of the photo agency NOOR Images. My stories have been published in dozens of international publications, like National Geographic or The New York Times. I have exhibited my work worldwide in galleries, museums, and photography festivals. My photographic projects have gotten awards and grants from leader organizations in our industry as World Press Photo, Magnum Foundation, PoYI, Alexia Foundation, Overseas Press Club, Getty Editorial Grant, and the Young Reporter Award in Visa pour l'Image, among others.

For the past ten years, I have taught hundreds of photographers worldwide in online classes, in-person workshops, and masterclasses. I love to transmit my experience and knowledge to other passionate photographers and help them find their creative path and accomplish their projects (as wild as they might seem!)

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GET ALL THE PRACTICAL TOOLS YOU NEED TO BECOME

A SUCCESSFUL VISUAL STORYTELLER

Once you enroll, you will get access to my membership, The Collective, where you can dive into a broad library of resources and join 2 group live sessions per month to connect with a global community of photographers; and to the ten Modules of my signature course, The Photographic Storyteller Course, where I have poured all my knowledge and experience to help you become a successful visual storyteller.

These Modules are designed to equip you with the necessary tools to create and elevate your photographic projects and will show you the steps to grow and establish your career as a photographer. Here you will find everything you need to know to produce, post-produce and distribute your projects. Get clarity and a step-by-step roadmap to becoming a professional documentary photographer.

MODULE 2 

DEVELOPING STORY IDEAS & A CREATIVE PRACTICE

MODULE 3

AUTHENTICITY, IDENTITY, AND STYLE

MODULE 4

PREPARATIONS & PRODUCTION IN THE FIELD

MODULE 5

ARCHIVE &

POST-PRODUCTION

MODULE 6

EDITING & SEQUENCING

MODULE 7

WORKING ON ASSIGNMENT

MODULE 8

FIND BETTER CLIENTS

MODULE 9

GRANT PROPOSALS

MODULE 10

YOUR LONG-TERM DOCUMENTARY PROJECT

ENROLL NOW AND UNLOCK YOUR ACCESS!

• 10 RECORDED MODULES WITH VIDEOS, WORKBOOKS, AND ASSIGNMENTS

• GUEST EXPERT INTERVIEWS

• RECORDED EDITING AND Q&A SESSIONS 

   

Remove the guesswork and start applying my methods and techniques to elevate your projects and drive attention to your work. 

This is the Course I WISH I had back in photo school! Here you will get the tools, resources, mindsets & goalssetting needed to establish yourself as a successful Visual Storyteller. 

Rena Effendi

Documentary Photographer

Effendi is an award-winning documentary photographer and author of two monographs published in 2009 - “Pipe Dreams: A Chronicle of Lives along the Pipeline” and in 2013 - “Liquid Land.”

She is the laureate of the Prince Claus Fund Award for Culture and Development. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Saatchi Gallery, İstanbul Modern, the Venice Biennial, or the NYC MOMA. 

Michael Christopher Brown

Photographer

Michael Christopher Brown is an American photographer and author of three monographs: Libyan Sugar, Yo Soy Fidel and Congo Sunrise, a series of upcoming books documenting Eastern Congo (DRC).

A contributing photographer at National Geographic, The New York Times Magazine, Time, Vanity Fair and other publications, his photographs have been published internationally, and extensively, since 2005.

Newsha Tavakolian

Magnum Photos

Tavakolian is a self-taught photojournalist and documentary photographer, based in Tehran and a member of Magnum Photos.

She began working professionally for the Iranian press at the age of 16 and has since covered regional conflicts, natural disasters and created social documentary projects.

She was the laureate of the 2014 Carmignac Photojournalism Award and the 2015 Prince Claus Award.

Sim Chi Yin

Visual Artist / Magnum Photos

Sim Chi Yin is an artist from Singapore whose research-based practice includes photography, moving images, archival interventions, and text-based performance and focuses on history, conflict, and memory. 

She is currently on an artist residency at the Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore.

Chi Yin is represented by Zilberman Gallery in Berlin and Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong. She joined Magnum Photos as a nominee member in 2018.

Mike Davis

Former Director of the Alexia Foundation Grant.

Davis has been through more than 3000 grant applications, and he shares his advice and insights in our amazing interview.

Helping visual storytellers create images that last beyond the day has been Mike’s mission in settings as diverse as National Geographic Magazine, The White House, several of America’s visually powerful newspapers, as an educator and an independent consultant and editor.

He just concluded eight years as director of The Alexia grants competition while an endowed faculty member at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School.

Sarah Leen

Emeritus Director of Photography of National Geographic Magazine

Founder of the Visual Thinking

Sarah is the Founder of the Visual Thinking Collective. She has been a photographer, a photo editor, and the first female Director of Photography at the National Geographic Magazine.

Sarah works individually with photographers and agencies editing long-term projects and books. She has also won numerous awards for both her photography and photo editing from the Pictures of the Year International, Best of Photojournalism, and the World Press Photo Awards.

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