Finding Your Voice as a Photographer
© anja hitzenberger
Online class Co-presented by C/O Berlin and StrudelmediaLive 

Co-presented by C/O Berlin and StrudelmediaLive

Finding Your Voice as a Photographer

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

Have you been taking pictures for a while but feel your images could be improved with more focus and meaning? Do you have difficulty expressing visually what you want to say? In this class, you’ll work on developing your own personal style and language by deepening your photographic seeing, refining your composition skills, and learning techniques to tell stronger stories. We'll discuss a variety of approaches to visual storytelling and analyze work by other photographers to learn what tools they use. Taking each student's natural talents and interests as the starting point and through weekly group critique and exercises, you’ll deepen your photography practice and develop your own visual voice.

A special highlight of this class will be a live online tour through the C/O Berlin retrospective of photographer Daido Moriyama.

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Anja's live online classes provided an intimate and safe space where I felt comfortable to present and discuss my work with other students, thus traning me for presenting my work outside of class. The assignments coupled with class critiques taught me how to formulate my point of view of other people's work, and to continue learning about things such as composition and sequencing. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is committed to advancing their photography, or who might need a little push and new prespective on where to take their work.
—Nastassia (France)
I've been enjoying all of the courses that I take through StrudelmediaLive. I find them motivating and fun, and I feel part of a community. You are building something wonderful.
—Cristina (Minneapolis)
I wanted to thank you again for sharing your wisdom and your insightful thoughts with me these past ten weeks. I really enjoyed the structure you created for the class. It was also such a nice group of people — everyone was very supportive.
—Karyn (New York City)


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.