Classes

Some stories are best told using a variety of components in addition to photographs — like video, audio, and text — to add a deeper dimension. In this course you’ll learn the basics of video/multimedia creation and its… [read more]

Juice up your summer photography with Kai McBride and his all new series of prompts that will get you thinking in a fresh way about how you photograph. Whether you are still trying to find your photographic voice or are… [read more]

If you want to take your pictures to the next level, establishing a good post-production workflow is essential. In this comprehensive Adobe Lightroom Classic course — for both beginners and people with some experience who… [read more]

In this 90-minute Mini-workshop, explore new ways of seeing and creating portraits, instead of relying on traditional, established ideas. Anita will present examples and references, as well as different approaches to… [read more]

In this 90-minute mini-workshop, you’ll get an introduction to “film soup” — an alternative film process where chance, chemistry, and material intervention become active collaborators in the photographic process. Drawing… [read more]

European photography in the 20th century doesn’t have one single history, but rather a whole spectrum of histories, made up of movements (national to diasporic, political to private) and photographic practices (chance… [read more]

“Landscape” can mean different things, depending on where and who you are: one might first think of a natural environment, but it could just as likely be an urban, suburban, exurban, or rural space. In this classyou’ll… [read more]

If words can paint a picture, and a picture is worth a thousand words, what happens when we combine the two? This course invites you to explore the relationship between image, text, and meaning. Each week we’ll explore a… [read more]

It can be difficult to photograph people you don’t know, to overcome the fear and uncertainty that comes with approaching and photographing strangers. But closeness and understanding — of people, and of a place — is the… [read more]

In image-making today, the lines between art and documentary photography are often blurring and overlapping, opening up exciting visual possibilities for us as photographers. Whether you’re experienced with documentary… [read more]

This intimate mentoring group meets once per month and is for photographers and media artists who are looking for long-term support and continuity while working on a project. We’ll look at different approaches to… [read more]

Have you experimented with shooting in black and white but were not quite happy with the results? Do you love the depiction of the world in black and white photographs and want to harness that abstracted quality in your own… [read more]

In this prompt-driven class, we’ll study what makes the images of exceptional photographers “exceptional,” by analyzing their use of light, framing, distance, and what they leave unsaid. Each week we’ll examine the… [read more]

In this course, we’ll develop methods to deepen the meaning in your work and to communicate it more clearly to others. We’ll consider a series of questions — both pre- and post-image creation — about how you can… [read more]

Learn to make a beautiful accordion-bound journal with pockets to hold your collected photos and ephemera in this 2-hour mini-workshop. This pocket accordion book is folded from one large sheet of paper, giving you 8 pages… [read more]

Adobe’s InDesign is the most flexible and powerful application to layout and design a photobook or zine. This 6-session class is for students who are new to InDesign and also for those who’d like a refresher to work on a… [read more]

In this 90-minute mini-workshop, you’ll learn how understanding photography through the principles of analog film and equipment can broaden your perspectives and creative possibilities — whether you’re a digital-based… [read more]