Mentoring Intensive for the Photographic Project
© Stefan Frank
ONLINE COURSE

Mentoring Intensive for the Photographic Project

Dates: Wednesdays, Jan 8–March 19, 2025
Time: 1–3pm (ET)
Sessions: 6 (Class meets every other week: Jan 8, 22; Feb 5, 19; March 5, 19)
Limited enrollment: 6 students
Fee: $550
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In general, the process of creating a photo project is that you take pictures, decide which ones work and which ones don’t, and finally put them together as a book, installation, exhibition, website gallery, or article. Sometimes, as you’re working on a project, though, it can become difficult to see through the haze of all your images and to feel that you really know what you should be photographing, what you still need, what the edit and sequence should be, and the best final form for the project. In this mentoring group, no matter where you are in your photographic project, we’ll look for paths toward clarity together, using six case studies of classical and not-so-classical projects (e.g. Robert Frank’s “The Americans,” Michael Schmidt’s “Un-ity”). We’ll develop tools that help you get through the different stages of the life-cycle of a project. This class is best for those with a project underway and want support, or those with a rough idea of one (and some initial images) and seek guidance. Please note: enrollment for this mentoring class is limited to 6 students.

 
This class was really exceptional — Stefan was extremely well-prepared, very thorough and taught with great enthusiasm and care on a university level; great assignments and class critique plus post-class emails. This was on a new level of online learning.
—Lisa (New York City)
This course was excellent, and I would/will recommend it to friends…. What I've liked about all of the three classes I've taken through StrudelmediaLive is that they are well-structured and organized. Stefan was exceptionally well-prepared for each session — it was all about teaching the material and he made an enormous amount of material available to the class.
—Barbara (New York City)


Stefan Frank
Stefan Frank

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.