


ONLINE COURSE
Chroma: A Tale in Five Chapters (and an epilogue)
Color often appears in our photos by chance — many photos are colorful simply because the world happens to be. But some photographers make color the main protagonist of their imagery, and in this course, we’ll examine some of their work. In five chapters, each focusing on a different color (blue, red, grey, green, yellow) — with an epilogue on the starting and endpoint of all color (white) — we will explore the many pictorial and conceptual aspects of how color appears in photographs. Along the way, we’ll read, watch, and listen: (Josef Albers’ “Interaction of Color,” Derek Jarman’s “Blue,” and Miles Davis’ “Blue in Green”). And, of course, we’ll look at photographs: from the abstract works of Japanese photographer Eiko Yamazawa, and the colorful sculptural experiments of Erin O’Keefe, to great fashion and editorial photographers like Paolo Roversi and Jack Davison, as well as the conceptual works of John Divola. Make color your main protagonist throughout this course.

Stefan Frank is a photographer and writer, working from Heidelberg, Germany. Way before he came to photography, he studied mathematics and philosophy at Ruhr Universität Bochum and worked as an IT specialist. He studied at Atelier Smedsby with JH Engström and Margot Wallard in Paris in 2017, before he eventually began studying photography at Ostkreuzschule, Berlin, with Peter Bialobrzeski. He graduated in 2023 with the work Irgendwo (“Anywhere”), a project dealing with politically motivated crime and the terror-spree of the far right in Germany. He has been teaching with StrudelmediaLive since 2020, giving courses on surrealism, poetics of space, gestalt theory for photographers, and more. His work has been exhibited in Heidelberg, Frankfurt, and Berlin.
Stefan teaches the poetics of space, nighttime photography, and much more (including presenting The Photobook Show) for StrudelmediaLive.