“Landscape” can mean different things, depending on where and who you are: one might first think of a natural environment, but it could just as likely be an urban, suburban, exurban, or rural space. In this class
you’ll consider new ways of looking at and understanding your environment through photography, and possibly incorporating collage and the moving image. Through theme-based discussion and examining the work of a variety of artists, together we’ll explore the historical, social, and political context of landscape photography and its contemporary practice.

  Students will focus on developing their own geography-based project through weekly assignments. Throughout the course, we’ll be engaging with aspects of the relationships between nature and humans, forces affecting the landscape, bodily senses in the landscape, and histories of a site. This class will give you a deeper understanding and connection to your surrounding environment through the lens-based work you create.