Assignment: Monochrome! Analysis, Technique, and Exercises in B&W
© Kai McBride
Assignment: Monochrome! Analysis, Technique, and Exercises in B&W
© Kai McBride
Assignment: Monochrome! Analysis, Technique, and Exercises in B&W
© Kai McBride
ONLINE COURSE

Assignment: Monochrome! Analysis, Technique, and Exercises in B&W

Interested in this class? Email us and we'll notify you next time it runs.

Black and White photography is utterly fluid — it can appear as a soft-toned airbrush drawing or as a dense and gritty pen-and-ink scratching, depending upon exposure, lighting, and post-processing techniques. In this class we will be deconstructing the work of a range of monochromatic photographers from the sublime to the hedonistic in order to understand what techniques the artists employed. You will then go out and experiment to make new photographs that embrace these different looks, using our analysis and technical recipe. This 6-session class meets every other week to give you extra time to dive in and create new work and features all new prompts, in case you've taken this class before. Kai envisions this class as a mash-up between his Black and White Refined and Shake Up! courses.

 

Please note: Basic understanding of Lightroom and a camera (digital or film) that can produce manually exposed images.
 
Kai’s classes were terrific. The group was a good mix of levels of experience. I learned a lot, and realized how much I have yet to learn. I was inspired!
—Bob (New York City)
Kai's class was brilliant — he's such a good teacher and I hope he does more classes for you. He was so organized with the content and assignments and he left us with some outstanding resources. Wonderful to have met him and I loved rediscovering Black and White photography. Brought me back to the days as a teen in my parents’ basement, developing my own photos on our washer and dryer!
—Jennifer (Monaco)
Thanks, Kai! The class was an enormous learning experience for me. The arc of my understanding between weeks one and four amazed me. I thank you for sharing your encyclopedic knowledge and your methods and I hope we have the chance to experience another class together soon. I can’t wait to get back in the studio to cut and paste. 
—Fran (New York City)


Kai McBride
Kai McBride

Kai McBride is a photographer, musician, teacher, and avid cyclist who recently uprooted from Brooklyn to sunny Santa Fe, New Mexico. He spent the last ten years teaching photography and managing the photo facilities at Columbia University, his alma mater, where he received an MFA in 2008.

Born on the island of Kauai in 1972, by his 18th birthday Kai had lived in California, Oregon, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Texas, Oahu, North Carolina, and Massachusetts. He sharpened his powers of observation while adjusting to life between suburban ranch-style homes, cabins with no running water, and a 20-foot teepee in the field of a commune.

His photographs have been exhibited in museum and gallery exhibitions, and are held in public and private collections. His first monograph, About Face: Picturing Tampa, was published by SPQR Editions in Fall 2016.

Kai teaches black and white photography, photobooks, and more for StrudelmediaLive.