Classes
Winter Photography Classes
Our live, interactive photography classes take place online in small groups — generally limited to 6 to 8 students. We give each other feedback in real time, with students participating live from around the world.
We offer classes that specialize in storytelling, long-term projects, documentary and street photography, environmental portraits, making photobooks/zines, composition, still life, multimedia, and technical courses in Lightroom, InDesign, Premiere Pro, and more. Please join us!
Let Movies Inspire Your Photography: Part 1
Examining the work of filmmakers can be eye-opening for photographers. This class will help you improve your compositional skills and deepen your work through a visual study of a wide range of movies. We’ll view and analyze… [read more]
Repetition as Practice: A Year of Deep Observation
Have you ever been struck by a place you photographed but later wondered whether you made the strongest image possible? What if the light had been different, the leaves off the trees, or your point of view or focal length… [read more]
Adventures in Still Life
This class will help develop your still life practice into a body of work that’s cohesive and expressive — whether you’re creating a portfolio of abstracted botanical landscapes, working on the photos for your own… [read more]
Photography with Mixed Media: Developing a Personal Visual Style
When you want to go beyond seeing your images on a digital display or two-dimensional print, consider adding mixed media, where every choice you make in materials, techniques, composition, and color plays a role in the… [read more]
“The Optical Unconscious”: Adventures in Surrealist Photography
To the American art critic Rosalind Krauss, Surrealism has played a pivotal role in the development of art in the past 100 years. And in her landmark work, The Optical Unconscious, she developed the idea that photography has… [read more]
An Interior View
In this class focusing on architectural interiors, we’ll discuss lighting, equipment, and camera settings, but also the challenge of how to translate and communicate the atmosphere, poetry, and meaning of a space and how… [read more]
Diving Deep: A Monthly Mentoring Group
This intimate mentoring group meets once per month and is for photographers and media artists who are looking for long-term support and continuity while working on a project. We’ll look at different approaches to… [read more]
Diverse Voices / Global Perspectives: Enriching Your Work
The world of photography is immense, and most of us know only a part of it. This class invites you to become inspired as we discover together the diverse voices of photographers from across the globe whose work is often… [read more]
Masterclass Course 1
Innovative Strategies for Exploring the Human Condition
A seminar looking at new and alternative ways of investigating what it means to be human in 2025, while engaging students to enlarge their vision and produce their own innovative work. We will look at and analyze a variety of… [read more]
Image Alchemy: Gather, Cut, Paste, Transfer
Expand the creative use of your images as you explore some of the many ways you can make new image-based works through photo collage and assemblage. This class is for photographers who want to experiment with how they can… [read more]
Mastering the Lightroom Print Module
The Print Module in Lightroom Classic has plenty of tricks up its sleeve — many of them not limited to printing. In this five-week class, Kai McBride will show you how to get the most out of this powerful and… [read more]
Acts of Seeing: Slow Looking and the Photographer’s Eye
This course invites you to engage in “slow looking” — a mindful practice that encourages you to pause, engage all of your senses, and connect more deeply with your subject before making any photographic decisions. The goal… [read more]
Photographing Memory and the Unconscious Mind
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… [read more]
Street Photography: Discovering the Social Landscape
The essential question most photographers face at some point is what to photograph. One answer is to engage with the social landscape that begins at your front door — for the attentive photographer, that landscape can be… [read more]
Create Your Own Zine or Photobook with InDesign
Adobe’s InDesign is the most flexible and powerful application to layout and design a photobook or zine. This 6-session class is for students who are new to InDesign and also for those who’d like a refresher to work on a… [read more]
Masterclass Course 2
Advancing the Personal Project for Social and Individual Change
This project-based class is about how the photographer can conceptualize their work to increase its impact in pursuit of social and individual change. We will look at diverse presentation strategies while exploring how… [read more]



























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