Foto8 is holding three day-long seminars between November 2011 and March 2012, inviting industry speakers to give photographers an insight into the business of image-making.

Making It Happen, on 26 November, will explore practical business models for those with work to publish, while New Documentary Forms, on 28 January, will examine the intersection of aesthetic and testimonial concerns in documentary photography. Different Contexts, on 03 March, will consider the demands of editors, agencies and NGOs, and how photographers can best meet them while creating work with its own integrity.

Each seminar will take place over one day at HOST Gallery, with each speaker talking for an hour followed by smaller group sessions during which participants can present their work. The number of participants is limited to 35 and the cost is £140; members of Foto8 and students will be charged the reduced rate of £120.

Confirmed speakers at the first session include photographers Rob Hornstra and Judah Passow, gallerist Laura Noble and director of Paradox, Bas Vroege. Vroege founded Paradox in 1993 with the aim of stimulating the development of photography, and it has been instrumental in organising multi-platform projects such as Why Mister, Why? by Geert van Kesteren. Paradox recently launched its first iPad App, Via PanAm with Noor photographer Kadir van Lohuizen, and is working on new apps with Robert Knoth and Antoinette de Jon, and Hans van der Meer.

A full list of dates, speakers, and their biographies can be found here.