Writing Photography: Berlin Edition

Photography is a powerful tool for documenting our world, capturing experiences, and preserving memories. As an art form that is at once political, personal, concrete, and ephemeral, photography can also serve as a source of inspiration and stimulation for creative writing.

As an offshoot of her popular course “Writing Berlin,” artist and author Demi Anter leads this in-person workshop, which explores how to write using photos, how to incorporate photography into the writing process, and how to interweave images and text to document a “place.”

Drawing on examples from some of the most insightful authors on this topic—including Sontag, Berger, Barthes, and others—we’ll use playful, hands-on exercises and photographic material to develop our own texts about the city of Berlin—and better situate our place within it.

This workshop will be held in English (Demi can also provide feedback in German), but participants are welcome to write in any language they choose. Suitable for writers and artists of all experience levels and genres.

Please note: This is a writing workshop, not a workshop for creating new photographs. Visual artists are, however, very welcome!

• Date: 21 July 2026
• Time: 7.00 pm – 9.00 pm
• Venue: Shakespeare & Sons Books, Warschauer Straße 74, 10243 Berlin
• Ticket: €33.14

About Demi Anter:

Demi Anter is an award-winning writer and performer whose work spans poetry, creative nonfiction, screenplays, and plays. Her work has been published in the U.S., Europe, and the U.K. by Magma, Cheerio, and The Times (UK), and she has performed at venues including the Glastonbury Festival, the Bristol Old Vic, and Poetry Ireland. In her teaching, she focuses on the power of writing from personal experience and has led workshops for various institutions around the world, including the National Theatre (UK), the Irish Cultural Centre in London, and JEV. Her poetry collection *Small Machine*, which documents her five-and-a-half years in Berlin, was published by Write Bloody UK in 2022. Chanel Miller described it as “strikingly radiant and soothing.” Musa Okwonga called it “sensitive, haunting, and beautifully vulnerable.”