Open Studios: Photography

Introduction to Photography: Jamil Hellu | Intermediate Photography: Jamil Hellu | Introduction to Photography: Dionne Lee | Introduction to Photography: Christine Seror | Intermediate Photography: Christine Seror | Cellphone Photography: Sarah Peck

Introduction to Photography
Instructor: Jamil Hellu

This is an introductory course in photography that explores lens-based practices and the imperative of visual literacy in today’s world. Students responded to the impact of the 2020 Quarantine on their lives, while examining a wide range of creative photographic approaches. 

Intermediate Photography: Home as Studio Space
Instructor: Jamil Hellu

This course investigates ideas of home as a creative art studio space. Students are encouraged to actively engage with various modes of conceptual experimentation by considering home as a site for creative liberation instead of confinement. Considering the current social order regarding shelter-in-place and lockdown protocols due to the Covid-19 Pandemic, students move beyond exercises of observing and witnessing to intentionally engage in acts of photographic creations. 

Introduction to Photography
Instructor: Dionne Lee

This is an introductory course in photography that explores lens-based practices and the imperative of visual literacy in today’s world. The history of photography starts now, in a context of image-making that proceeds all around us with unprecedented immediacy and proliferation. We will cover fundamental principles of camera operation, composition and image editing. Through digital instruction, students learn to use DSLR or Mirrorless cameras and to operate manual settings (focus, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, color temp/white balance). They learn basic file management as well as the use of Adobe Lightroom software. Students acquire an essential knowledge of contemporary art photography, including standards of quality and image sequencing. They get a basic sense of aesthetics and of the critical discourse that exists around the cultural significance of images. Students provide their own DSLR or mirrorless camera. 

Introduction to Photography
Instructor: Christine Seror

This is an introductory course in photography that explores lens-based practices and the imperative of visual literacy in today’s world. The history of photography starts now, in a context of image-making that proceeds all around us with unprecedented immediacy and proliferation. We cover fundamental principles of camera operation, composition and image editing. Through digital instruction, students learn to use DSLR or Mirrorless cameras and to operate manual settings (focus, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, color temp/white balance). They learn basic file management as well as the use of Adobe Lightroom software. Students acquire an essential knowledge of contemporary art photography, including standards of quality and image sequencing. They get a basic sense of aesthetics and of the critical discourse that exists around the cultural significance of images. Students provide their own DSLR or mirrorless camera.

Maddy Faul

Intermediate Photography: Composite and Time
Instructor: Christine Seror 

This course introduces students to the use of several techniques and methodologies that combine multiple images into a single composite photograph. Students develop skills to pre-visualize and plan the work they envision through high definition range capture, panoramic stitching, and focus stacking. They explore the nature and concept of Time in photographic imagery through various techniques, such as creating more than one timescale into an image, `recreating’ one time in another, building the representation of time into a work, and visualizing passing time in the process of making work. This is an intermediate course in photography, with an ongoing emphasis on operating manual camera settings (focus, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, color temp/ white balance). Students continue to work with Lightroom as a file management system, are introduced to Photoshop, and focus on the importance of photo editing/selection and sequencing. 

Cellphone Photography
Instructor: Sarah Peck

This course combines the critical analysis of cell phone photography with the creation of photographic artworks that explore the experimental, social, and documentary potential of this particular medium. The increasing ubiquity of cell phone photography has had a widespread impact on the practice of photography as an art form. We will consider and discuss the ways in which the practice and platforms of cell phone photography are democratizing image-making and transforming notions of ownership and subjectivity to an unprecedented extent, but also how the use of new technological tools help expand notions of creativity, community and aesthetic standards.