ONLINE COURSE
Explore the Botanical World through Photography
Discover new ways of capturing the intricate beauty of plants and their structures — flowers and leaves and their various shapes, elements, and textures. Focusing on both artistic expression and building technical skills, you’ll learn to create dynamic images that showcase the beauty of the plant world. To stimulate and inspire your creative work, we’ll look at the fascinating history of botanical imagery and the classical still life, as well as modern interpretations and explorations of our botanical friends. We’ll also delve into the technical issues of macro photography, lighting, composition, focus stacking, and other techniques, giving you a firm grounding in how to create your own botanical portfolio.
Néstor Pérez-Molière was born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and currently resides in the Bronx, New York. His art entails a process of self-discovery; a series of confessionals revealing private conflicts; hoping towards catharsis. Through this cathartic process he hopes to connect with the viewer’s struggles and depathologize negative feelings so that they can be seen as a source for political action rather than its antithesis. Néstor exposes mental health issues like depression, dysmorphia, food addictions, and loneliness: describing their mechanisms, scrutinizing their origins, and illuminating the impossibility of fixing them. His practice mainly takes place in the realm of photography but has also incorporated performance, drawing, video, installation, and intaglio techniques into his works.
He received an MFA from Hunter College and holds a BSc in Botany. He was part of EmergeNYC 2023, Artist in the Marketplace 2017, and Creative Capital’s Taller 2019 mentorship programs, and was included in The Bronx Museum of the Arts Fourth Biennial. He has exhibited at the Museo de las Américas, the Clemente Soto Vélez, Bronx Art Space, Longwood Gallery, and the Liga de Estudiantes de Artes de San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 2023 he was a resident at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Governors Island Arts Center and Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts residencies. Interested in becoming an educator, he teaches, and has taught, digital and darkroom photography, as well as media literacy at the International Center of Photography, Parsons School of Design, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Fairleigh Dickinson University, The Point CDC, and StrudelmediaLive.
Néstor teaches lighting for still life, Lightroom, and more for StrudelmediaLive.
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