Classes

A seminar looking at new and alternative ways of investigating what it means to be human in 2025, while engaging students to enlarge their vision and produce their own innovative work. We will look at and analyze a variety of… [read more]

Expand the creative use of your images as you explore some of the many ways you can make new image-based works through photo collage and assemblage. This class is for photographers who want to experiment with how they can… [read more]

The Print Module in Lightroom Classic has plenty of tricks up its sleeve — many of them not limited to printing. In this five-week class, Kai McBride will show you how to get the most out of this powerful and… [read more]

This course invites you to engage in “slow looking” — a mindful practice that encourages you to pause, engage all of your senses, and connect more deeply with your subject before making any photographic decisions. The goal… [read more]

Even though women have been working in photography since the medium’s inception, they are often under-represented in museum and other photography collections. By focusing on iconic works that women have created using… [read more]

This course is meant to help students create meaningful photography projects that reframe, reclaim, and deepen their relationships to life experiences. Throughout our lives, we sometimes lose connection to our emotional needs… [read more]

The essential question most photographers face at some point is what to photograph. One answer is to engage with the social landscape that begins at your front door — for the attentive photographer, that landscape can be… [read more]

How can we approach the process of creating a photobook from our own project? In this mini-workshop, we’ll explore why its just as important to think about the concept of the book itself as about the… [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]

This project-based class is about how the photographer can conceptualize their work to increase its impact in pursuit of social and individual change. We will look at diverse presentation strategies while exploring how… [read more]

In this class we learn ways to explore themes, tell stories, and present a visually cohesive narrative across multiple photographs using the deceptively simple technique of grouping the photos together in diptychs, triptychs,… [read more]

Once you’ve taken the pictures, finished the edit, and worked on the sequence, it’s time to move on to the next — and often most difficult — phase of a project: getting your work out into the world. How can you find… [read more]

By popular demand, we’re presenting an all-new Part 3 of this favorite class! Examining the work of filmmakers can be eye-opening for photographers. This class will help you improve your compositional skills, deepen your… [read more]

This in-person weekend workshop in New York City is an inquiry into portraiture as a form of seeing rather than a process of making. Moving beyond likeness, technique, or performance, we’ll examine what it means to… [read more]

Hand‑altering film negatives can be an exciting way to create new work — let’s explore together experimental ways of intervening and working with analog film negatives, either from your own archive or that others have… [read more]

Zines are small books that are made quickly and cheaply (usually), and are often given away or sold for an affordable price. This 3-hour Mini-workshop is perfect for artists interested in exploring how making zines by hand… [read more]

Johannes Itten, a teacher at Bauhaus in the 1930s, asked his students to draw two lemons sitting atop a bright green book. The students whipped off their drawings in a few minutes of what they saw as a simple prompt and sat… [read more]

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 it’s… [read more]

This course will help students step back from their own unfolding stories and create work about their life, whether based on memories or the current situation. Memory exercises will unlock personal material — interests,… [read more]

In this course, you’ll examine the role of walking as a personal practice and a means for generating photographic artwork. With the idea of remaining close to home, this class aims to investigate our relationship to our… [read more]

Photography can be a very intimate and vulnerable medium to visualize your inner monologue and who you are as a person, especially when working with themes of family, (self-)portraiture, and personal… [read more]

This course will help students step back from their own unfolding stories and create work about their life, whether based on memories or the current situation. Memory exercises will unlock personal material — interests,… [read more]

If you’re thinking about creating a photobook, making the physical book by hand can be super-satisfying and can add another level of creativity to your project. In this class, you’ll learn how to make three types of hardcover… [read more]

This class invites you to consider what constitutes an archive — from official documentation to whatever is in your pocket — and explore how these materials can inform your photographic practice. Together, we will look at… [read more]

It can be difficult to photograph people we don’t know and to overcome the fear and uncertainty that comes with approaching and photographing strangers. Yet when we’re given a chance to spend a little bit of time with… [read more]