Get Lost in Palermo
Photography Workshop
2-7 September 2026

With Mimi Mollica and Guest Tutor Aaron Schuman

Workshop overview & philosophy

Get Lost in Palermo is an intensive six-day photography workshop held annually in Palermo, Sicily. Since 2021, it has brought together a carefully selected cohort of serious amateur and emerging professional photographers to work intensively with guest tutors of international standing — including Martin Parr, Bruce Gilden, and Amber Terranova.

The 2026 edition introduces Aaron Schuman as guest tutor, alongside workshop director Mimi Mollica. With a cohort of 8–10 participants, the programme places full focus on photographic practice, editorial thinking, and the production of a handmade zine.

The "Get Lost" framework

The title is a provocation, not a promise. Getting lost is the methodology. Each day carries a brief, not to constrain, but to focus attention and develop specific abilities in observing, capturing and creating a visual narrative. Participants are assigned different areas of the city so that the group's collective gaze covers Palermo in all its complexity: the baroque and the brutalist, the multi-cultural essence of the city, the still and the relentlessly alive. Every evening, those individual trajectories are brought back together and discussed as a group.

A word from Mimì

Above all, like the other activities I run, such as the Sicily Photo Masterclass and the Offspring Photo Meet, my goal is to create a bond with great people, based on a shared passion and shared values. Fun is crucial to act as a connecting glue. We will work intensively and focus on our storytelling abilities, and when in the evening we get together for drinks and meals, the discussions on photography, friendship and more, carry on in bars and trattorias, on the side of a busy street, surrounded by the charming character of Palermo. Over the years, I have built and supported a growing bunch of friends, facilitated connections and informally extended my mentoring to offer my continued commitment towards the photographers that trust me with their work.

Early bird: £1,200 until 14 June · Full price £1,350 · Alumni rate £1,150

• Sharpen your observation and visual instincts

• Learn to build and sustain a photographic narrative

• Strengthen your editing and sequencing skills

• Develop a new body of work, shot entirely on location in Palermo

• Push beyond your comfort zone and rediscover the pleasure of making photographs

• Learn to approach strangers and photograph people with confidence

• Have your work critically assessed in group and individual sessions by practising professionals

• Gain a deeper understanding of how a place can be read and interpreted photographically

• Collaborate on and contribute to a collectively produced zine

• Make new friends with whom you can work and have fun at the same time

• Immerse yourself in the culture, history, and energy of one of Europe's most compelling cities