Learn the basics of photography from the comfort of your own home with online beginner photography classes, where you'll discover essential techniques and principles to capture stunning images.
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Penumbra Foundation @ Online Class, New York, NY
A photographer's work can be a precarious, unreliable barometer for their legacy. Photographs made today are inevitably responses to ones made prior, such that photographers live on through the continually evolving practice of making pictures. In this six-week course, students of all experience levels will be invited to learn about the myriad of ways photographers throughout history have manifested their creative practices and how these practices...
Penumbra Foundation @ Virtual Classroom
In 8 classes over 16 weeks, this course will investigate the shared language between photobooks and cinema, and explore what one form can teach us about the other. A handful of films (fiction and non-fiction, features and shorts) will be assigned to watch outside of class, and then sessions will be used to further dissect these films in terms of their narrative structure, editing techniques and directorial approach. Through analyses, readings, conversations...
Penumbra Foundation @ Virtual Classroom
Discover the history and techniques behind the art of portrait photography in this online workshop. Through discussions, assignments, and readings, you'll delve into the philosophy of portraiture and learn how to capture the essence of your subjects through the lens. Uncover the secrets of this art form and elevate your skills with the guidance of industry experts at Penumbra Foundation.
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Penumbra Foundation @ Virtual Classroom
Learn the innovative Ziatype printing process, a variation on palladium, at the Penumbra Foundation. Discover how to control tone and contrast through sensitizer adjustments and create stable prints with a wide tonal range. Gain a deeper understanding of this versatile technique for producing unique and beautiful images.
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ *Virtual Classroom
How do we see and perceive the contemporary landscape beyond the marks that humanity has left on it? What can the landscape, in all its forms and iterations, teach us about ourselves? Under Brad Temkin’s expert guidance, we examine these questions in depth while learning to create pictures that are poetic and beautiful. With the help of exercises, classroom discussions, portfolio reviews and critiques, as well as informal artist talks with professional...
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ Distance Learning Class via Zoom, Los Angeles, CA
Join photographer Kimberly Witham for a weekend workshop developing and refining your still life photography skills. The weekend will begin with a discussion of historical and contemporary still life. From there, Kimberly will explain her studio process from arrangement to final print. The workshop will include demonstrations and hands-on assignments as well as feedback on work produced. Topics will include the use of both manipulated daylight and...
Los Angeles Center of Photography
This workshop explores photography as a universal storytelling language. From its inception, the photographic medium has been expected to prove, explain, or entertain; it’s very mechanical nature asks it to be precise. We concentrate on storytelling and finding clarity within what you make and how you speak about it. Your stories may be fact or fiction, staged or found, poems or novels. This workshop will ask you to think about, shoot, and edit...
Los Angeles Center of Photography
Breaking from Convention: Crafting Compelling Narratives from Your Personal Photographic Archive We have all made thousands upon thousands of photos—we store them on our mobile devices, save them on hard-drives, and many are gathering dust in family albums. Some of you may have outstanding singular images that just don’t seem to fit within a larger cohesive project. These types of photographs are often shelved, never to be experienced...
Los Angeles Center of Photography
Blending traditional and contemporary practice, this virtual masterclass introduces participants to the art of handmade photographic artists’ books that are as diverse in style and direction as they are in technique. Through brainstorming techniques and guided writing exercises, we concentrate on memory, experience and imagination to inspire the content, design and execution of personal photo book-works. Each class day includes lectures, hands-on...
Los Angeles Center of Photography
The Next Step: Presenting Your Work to the Fine Art Market Equally important to creating a stellar and deeply considered body of work are all the elements that surround it: your bio, project statement, website and the understanding where and how to place the work. This workshop will help demystify the fine art market with lectures on editions and pricing to presentation and installation. It will also be an honest look at how the roadmap to success...
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ *Virtual Classroom
Viewing the world indirectly offers us a unique opportunity to communicate ideas and emotions in ways that move beyond the usual representation of a subject. Whether our inspiration takes root in grand landscapes or the smallest of microscopic organisms, the possibilities are endless when we examine the world from diverse perspectives. This online workshop gives participants the skills to identify key abstract elements and skills to create compositions...
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ *Virtual Classroom
One of the early photographic processes, invented in 1842 by Sir John Hirschel, was the cyanotype. It is based on sunlight causing a change in a light sensitive emulsion brushed onto paper or fabric. Many of the early photographic images were called “sun prints” because they had to be exposed using UV lights, or sunlight. This is a contact print process, and you will need negatives the size you would like your final image to be. We will start...
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ *Virtual Classroom
Keeping the Channels Open: Infusing Your Practice with Mindfulness Recent advances in technology and social media make photography accessible to everyone. There are overwhelming numbers of images that bombard us on a daily basis, distracting us from our own voice. Yet meaningful art making is often a more slow and solitary practice, made while gently reflecting on our own unique life path and interests. In this new class you will use mindfulness...
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ *Virtual Classroom
Bookbinding for the Photographer: Sequencing, Printing and Binding Methods Through class discussions, demonstrations and individual research, students will form a personal vision of what their images mean in the book form. Our focus will be equally on content, concept, production and technique. Over the past decade, photography books have seen a resurgence within the art world, this time transcending their original use as survey or catalog to...
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ *Virtual Classroom
Course Title: Contemporary Fine Art Photography: Discovering Your Voice with Susan Burnstine Contemporary fine art photography transforms ideas into images, and images into a voice. The photographer acts as a channel to which this progression can evolve. This course will investigate this process and use of photography as a tool for individual expression, not just in terms of innovative composition and interesting camera techniques, but more importantly,...
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ *Virtual Classroom
Through image making, critique, historical overview, and editing, this workshop will explore how to tell visual stories and form a cohesive narrative body of work that can be published. The workshop is open to those who may be just beginning this path and to those who may have a project nearing completion. Students will have opportunities to present work and the class will collectively consider sequencing, narrative, and potential strategies to...
Chicago Botanic Garden @ Online via Zoom
The Chicago Botanic Garden’s online photography class is a virtual experience you can take anywhere! Explore the history of postmodern photography, from the 1960s to the present. Start with pop art, assemblage, conceptual art, and the social landscape. Create photographs like the great masters of this period such as Andy Warhol, Syl Labrot, Gary Winogrand, Diane Arbus, Bruce Davidson, and others. This class will be taught online...
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ *Virtual Classroom
Explore the power of metaphors in photography and learn how to elevate and transform your projects in this immersive workshop at the Los Angeles Center of Photography. Discover visual equivalents, delve into concept and presentation, and find deeper complexity in your work. Join us for an enriching experience that will unlock new levels of creativity.
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ *Virtual Classroom
Unleash your creativity with Playing with Pictures, a course at the Los Angeles Center of Photography. Dive into collage, appropriation, and experimental making to generate new meanings from different groupings of images. Transform found photographs into captivating works of art through manipulation and exploration.
Los Angeles Center of Photography @ *Virtual Classroom
“The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.” – Henri Cartier-Bresson In this workshop, we discuss all the elements of what makes a good portrait and delve into the process of working with people. We learn through attention to detail, postures and expressions, approaching potential subjects, establishing trust and developing a relationship, working through...
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