THE TRAVEL CONTENT INSTITUTE · SPRING & AUTUMN 2027
Paris Residency
Intention. Create with purpose in Paris.
Where Travel Creators Become Professionals.
Paris rewards the creator who looks twice.
A bookstall opens beneath the trees. A cyclist slips through the frame. Outside an old bookshop, scooters, paper bags and passing conversations turn a street into a story. Paris gives you layers to work with: the place everyone recognises and the details only an attentive creator brings home.
Your portfolio can hold more than proof that you visited. It can show that you know what to notice, what to leave out and how to make a familiar destination feel personal.
Paris tells its story. Your portfolio shows your skill.
Use the city’s stories to show what you can do for a client. A neighbourhood can become a destination tourism story. A stay can become an accommodation feature. A product or travel app can be demonstrated in the real situation it was designed to improve.
Bring your own perspective to each brief. Your Paris portfolio can connect atmosphere with useful evidence: why an experience matters, how a service works, or what a traveller gains from a product.
Select work that shows your visual choices and commercial judgement. Add a brief context note explaining the traveller, their question and the evidence in each piece.
Practise defining an assignment’s scope, deliverables and usage rights so you can present a clear offer. Your next steps depend on the clients you approach and the work you continue after the residency.
Intention, in every frame.
Work with texture, light, architecture and the pace of everyday life. Explore how a wide scene sets the mood, how a small detail gives it meaning, and how the two become a coherent piece of travel content.
Paris invites you to practise restraint. The most valuable frame may be a hand choosing a book, a doorway or the pause before a café fills. Your choices become the signature.
An illustrative brief: help a traveller decide
Question: “Can a solo traveller visit this attraction comfortably without renting a car?” Use Paris as the setting for this illustrative teaching example, not a confirmed assignment location or itinerary.
Your evidence: Plan coverage of the route, walking distance, entrance, practical obstacles and return journey. Define whose needs you are addressing. Date any transport information you use, and state what you have not verified.
Your portfolio work: Plan an edited video and three photographs that help the viewer assess the journey. Review whether the evidence answers the question, then explain your creative choices in a short context note.
See the skills and working process to follow the example from brief through planning, production and review. No completed resident work or verified route is claimed here.
The Paris chapter your portfolio could tell.
Imagine a short story that moves from a tree-lined street to a shopfront, then closes on the detail that makes someone want to step inside. Or a sequence of photographs that turns an ordinary walk into a distinct visual world.
These are creative possibilities, not a fixed itinerary. Build work with atmosphere and purpose: content that helps a viewer feel a place while giving them a reason to care.
Bring home your eye for Paris.
A landmark can establish where you are. Your treatment of the city establishes who you are as a creator. Build a Paris chapter that makes your taste, judgement and storytelling visible.
Skills you can practise and take forward
Plan: Define a traveller, a practical question and a shot list that connects your creative choices to useful evidence.
Create and review: Practise building a sequence, editing a video and selecting photographs. Check the result against the brief, use feedback and record what you would improve.
Present: Organise relevant pieces with short context notes and working documents you can use when preparing a pitch.
Your daily starting point remains at least one edited video and three photographs. Build towards the larger residency portfolio: five finished category pitch videos, 100 distinct shots, selected portfolio work and an organised b-roll library. Your daily edits may contribute to the five pitch videos.
Explore the residency experience
See the curriculum, portfolio outcomes, preparation and participation details in Inside a TCI Residency.
Spaces are limited. Registration is first come, first served.
Arrive ready to create
Begin with immediate access to your confirmation, residency dates, travel responsibilities, preparation schedule and a sample lesson after payment. Further preparation materials are released in stages. Complete your post-registration tasks and seven-day pre-residency preparation. See when you receive your residency materials.
You work through daily assignments with guidance, feedback and fellow creators. You arrange your own travel, accommodation and meals and bring the equipment you plan to use. Read the short registration details before choosing your place.
Images on this page are Charlotte’s original sample photography from Paris. They demonstrate creative work, not previous resident outcomes or a confirmed partnership.
Build a portfolio with range and purpose
Five finished brand pitch videos: Create one for each of five travel categories: accommodation; attractions and tourism; transport and travel services; food and hospitality; and travel tech and gear. Each introduces your approach, shows relevant work and explains the value you can offer brands in that category.
100 distinct shots: Your residency includes a resident-only shoot-planning resource to help you build a broad collection of footage for your portfolio videos and reusable b-roll library. The detailed shoot lists are shared with enrolled residents.
Your portfolios: Select finished category work for your creative portfolio. Build a compact creator portfolio with an introduction, selected examples, services, contact details and short project descriptions explaining your decisions. Leave with a completed starter portfolio, or a structured foundation with finished pieces, organised supporting assets and a clear completion plan.
Your reusable b-roll library: Create in some of Paris’s most iconic settings and everyday travel environments. Organise an extensive footage library you can draw from for future client projects, recording locations, permissions and usage restrictions.
Start your Paris enrolment
Your next step is to complete the short enrolment form. Choose your residency, season and payment currency, and confirm that you have read and understood the policies. You will then continue to the PayPal payment options.
Read this before you click pay. Review the policies before completing your purchase.
Questions about your residency? Contact TCI.
Looking ahead to Paris in 2028?
Proposed spring dates: April 16–19, 2028.
Proposed winter dates: December 3–6, 2028.
Join the 2028 waitlist for an Easter-season residency or the proposed Christmas-market season. Receive updates when dates and enrolment details are available. No payment is required, and joining does not reserve a place.
