Vision Lab 2026

What it is

The Vision Lab is a hands-on week for professional photographers, filmmakers, journalists, artists, and storytellers who want to develop their practices beyond traditional limits. Reach new audiences, build a sustainable media practice, and initiate change.

We work across alternative publishing strategies, project funding, personal positioning, and the long tail of a body of work, moving between individual conversations with me, partner sessions, and group work across the six days.

In previous Vision Labs, participants have created linear web documentaries and storyboards, developed publication bridges from print and online into spatial installations and theatre, written project proposals and financing plans, and built concepts for tying individual stories into a larger narrative. Others clarified where they wanted to go professionally, identified new audiences, and developed strategies to reach them.

But what participants consistently tell me matters most isn’t the curriculum. It’s who is in the room. Six to eight people from different disciplines, working on very different projects, getting close to each other’s questions. You come out with clarity, concrete next steps, and a small group of peers who keep showing up for you. 

The Vision Lab has been the catalyst for my long-term project Move She Does. Through Uwe’s focused, sincere, heartfelt, and constructive guidance, it transformed from an energetic seed into a clear, structured, and powerful project. And the mapping we created still hangs on my wall, ingrained in my mind—always ready for review.

Who it’s for

• You have a project you can’t quite get off the ground. You know what you want to make; you don’t yet know how to fund it, structure it, or carry it through to audiences beyond a single magazine spread.
• You’re at a turning point. You’re successful by most measures, but you want your next chapter to feel different. More meaningful, more sustainable, more yours.
• You want to reconnect to why you started. The craft still matters to you. You’re looking for a week of serious thinking with people who take the work as seriously as you do.

Before the Vision Lab, our ‘Home’ project was merely an idea. The workshop helped us structure and frame it, offering new angles and very tangible, actionable goals. We later pivoted to a funded documentary film. The confidence and tools we gained at the Lab were what made that possible.

Who leads it

Your attention and empathy have been incredibly valuable to me. Thank you for your honest words, your feedback, and your questions that always hit the nail on the head, even if they aren’t always easy to answer. Thank you for creating a space where everyday life didn’t matter at all for a week and where the only thing that mattered was being there. You are someone who truly sees people. I don’t think there are many people I’d want to listen to for hours on end for seven days straight. With you, it’s no problem at all.

Program at a glance

I’ve been a regular student of Uwe’s since his early multimedia journalism workshops in 2010. What differentiates him from many other teachers is that, no matter the subject, he always makes classes turn into something personal. Every attendant brings their own starting point, which he then builds his teaching on. I took the Vision Lab twice, with two completely different projects in mind, and although the basic content on paper was the same, the personal experience and the benefits were no less the second time.

Practical

• Normal: 300€
• Reduced: 150€ (students, jobseekers, intermittent entertainment workers, self-employed professional artists, on presentation of documentary evidence)