Creating Environmental Portraits That Tell Powerful Stories
© Anja Hitzenberger
Online class Co-presented by C/O Berlin and StrudelmediaLive

Creating Environmental Portraits That Tell Powerful Stories

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

Learn how to tell stories about people by photographing them in their own environments — their neighborhoods or homes, indoors or outdoors — and how to incorporate space to reveal intimate details.

We’ll delve into environmental portraiture and learn ways to make your subjects feel comfortable, so that your images both illuminate their personalities and engage the viewer on a deeper level. We also cover a history of the environmental portrait and discuss a selection of contemporary photographers, including photographers who combine environmental portraits with a documentary-style project.

A special highlight of the workshop will be a live, online guided tour through the exhibition “Queerness in Photography” at C/O Berlin on November 29 (12pm ET / 6pm Berlin time).

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Anja Hitzenberger
Anja Hitzenberger

Anja Hitzenberger is a photographer, filmmaker, consultant, and educator. She is the founder of StrudelmediaLive, an educational platform that offers live online photography classes and more to people around the world. Anja studied in the Creative Practice full-time program at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York City, and has been on the faculty there since 2009. She is dedicated to working with people from different cultures across the globe.

Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows, film festivals, and on theater stages throughout Europe, the United States, South America, and Asia. Her photography has been published internationally and is a part of both private and institutional collections, including the International Center of Photography. She has received numerous artistic grants and has been awarded residencies in Rome, Paris, Warsaw, Beijing, and Tainan (Taiwan). A focus of her activities has been working with live performance, including producing a multimedia piece that toured in New York City, Austria, and Korea.

Anja has been teaching live online photography classes since 2015, as well as in-person workshops at organizations in New York, Europe, China, and Taiwan, including C/O Berlin, Three Shadows (Beijing), and FJUM (Forum for Journalism and Media – Vienna). Originally from Salzburg, Austria, she divides her time between New York and Vienna.

Anja teaches visual storytelling, environmental portraits, critique groups, and how movies can inspire your photography for StrudelmediaLive.