ONLINE COURSE
Exploring Physical and Digital Photo Collage
Dive into the art of photo collage in this hands-on class and expand your storytelling and creativity! This course is both an overview of photo collage as well as an exercise- and project-based experience, and is for photographers who have either worked with collage before or not. We’ll begin with an in-depth survey of contemporary photographers (including Zuzana herself) and how they are working with different types of collage in their artistic practice. From there, we’ll move into the very sensual act of cutting and manipulating physical prints and more to create 2D and 3D collage and assemblages, and end with an introduction to digital collage basics with Photoshop. Assignments will focus on exercises with specific techniques as well as developing a project that you’ll work on to be presented in the final session. Students can work with their own or found photographs and images.
Zuzana Pustaiová's interest in visual arts began with painting but soon switched to photography, which she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava (Slovakia) where she completed her Ph.D in 2022. Her artwork uses role-playing as a principal tool to explore and reveal the relationships between family members, relatives, friends, and other social groups. With a sense of wit, humor and irony, she uncovers the cultural stereotypes related to gender, age, tradition, and social inclusion. In 2022, her book One Day Every Day was shortlisted for the Paris Photo – Aperture Photobook Award. She has received numerous awards in contemporary photography — including the Grand Prix at the Rovinj Photodays 2021 and Finalist for the 2017 Lucie Foundation Scholarship in Los Angeles. In 2018 she was named Slovak Photographer of the Year. She has exhibited internationally in Europe and Canada and lives and works in Levice and Bratislava.
Zuzana teaches new approaches to photographing family stories and self-portraiture for StrudelmediaLive.
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