The Artist’s Sketchbook: Ideas and Tools for the Practicing Photographer
© Stefan Frank
Mini-Workshop

The Artist’s Sketchbook: Ideas and Tools for the Practicing Photographer

Interested in this class? Email us and we'll notify you next time it runs.

Artists and photographers often use a sketchbook to hold on to fleeting thoughts and preliminary results — whether to jot down ideas, organize work, or just print some pictures to document their development over time. In this mini-workshop, we’ll look at examples of how photographers and artists like Francesca Woodman, Gerhard Richter, Frank Ockenfels, and Chris Ashworth have used the sketchbook — and how you can expand your artistic practice using this powerful tool. While we’ll focus mostly on analog tools and practices, we’ll also look briefly at how you can use digital sketchbooks like Milanote and Miro to organize your research and collaborate with others.

Mini-Workshops may have higher enrollment than our other classes.
 
Thank you for this interesting course — Stefan certainly gave us a lot of information and a lot to think about. I wish the course was even longer!
—Suzette (New York)
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.