This course is meant to help students create meaningful photography projects that reframe, reclaim, and deepen their relationships to life experiences. Throughout our lives, we sometimes lose connection to our emotional needs as a result of survival, putting others’ needs before our own, or living in unsupportive environments. Let’s make this a dedicated time to reunite with who we are and use our unique life experience to foster compassionate introspection. Through guided writing and photography assignments, self-reflective exercises, and supportive critiques, students will explore their internal dialogues, unify conscious and unconscious narratives, and cultivate radical self-compassion.

Whether you have experience with visual storytelling or are new to it, this course will introduce you to new ways of seeing and engaging with the world around you. You’ll be invited to work closely with your emotional truths, past or present, and translate them into a personal visual language you feel a real, tangible connection to. Expect to emerge from this class with a heightened sense of self-awareness and the foundation for a photographic practice that can support you for years to come.