New Visions for New Landscapes
© Stefan Frank
New Visions for New Landscapes
© Stefan Frank
ONLINE COURSE

New Visions for New Landscapes

Dates: Thursdays, Sept 12–Nov 21, 2024
Time: 1–3pm (ET)
Sessions: 6 (This class has 6 sessions and meets Thursdays every other week: Sept 12, 26; Oct 10, 24; Nov 7, 21)
Limited enrollment: 8 students
Fee: $455
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In landscape photography we encounter our relationship to the earth, our concepts of nature, and our own position to it. As photographers, as our awareness of our changing ecology grows, so, too, does our way of encountering and portraying our surroundings. In this course, students will develop an individual project that documents their immediate environs with an eye toward uncovering the many aspects of our changing landscapes — whether that’s a vast natural area or dense urban space, or one’s own backyard or neighborhood. You’ll develop instruments of exploration and discovery and look for your own, personal ways to take pictures of our ever-changing landscape. 

For inspiration, we’ll look at the work of the “new topographics” photographers — including Robert Adams, Lewis Baltz, and Bernd and Hilla Becher — and their groundbreaking 1970s exhibition “Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape,” as well as work by Edward Burtynsky, Sally Mann, and photographers from the 19th and early 20th centuries. This class will meet every other week to allow time for students to work on their projects.

This is a new class, so it’s everyone — whether they’ve taken Stefan’s earlier landscape classes or not.

 
Thank you for guiding us down the Surrealism path. I had fun and enjoyed the course — I will be revisiting the “tool box” to feel more comfortable with Surrealism! I look forward to taking another class with you in the future.
—Alan (Minnesota)
Loved Stefan’s class! I really appreciate the mix of hands-on work — a.k.a. making photos — and his more conceptual lectures. For me that is the ideal combination.
—Cristina (Chicago)


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.