ONLINE COURSE
Our Ever‑Changing Landscapes
In this class we’ll look at different approaches photographers have used to depict their surroundings — whether that’s a vast natural area or dense urban space, or their own backyard or neighborhood. As our landscapes undergo massive change caused by human development, so, too, has landscape photography changed — from Timothy O’Sullivan’s 19th-century images of the American West and the majestic photographs of Ansel Adams, to Gideon Mendel’s bleak depictions of a drowning world. With weekly assignments and a focus on landscapes that have been altered by humankind, we’ll develop instruments of exploration and discovery and look for our own, personal ways to take pictures of our ever-changing landscape.
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.
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