Multiple Exposures: Your Photographic Project

Course description

The adage “anyone can take a good photograph” inches ever closer to truth with constantly improving imaging technologies. But can anyone imagine and create a good (and compelling) photographic project?

This course is for photographers working on long-term projects as well as anyone wishing to pull together the myriad personal photographs that inevitably accumulate over time. Very often, photographic projects become an exercise in visual story telling.

Over the six two-hour sessions we will cover:

• Choosing (evaluating interest level) and fine tuning your topic
• Editing and sequencing of your photographs
• Incorporating typography plus graphic layout basics
• Outputting options – book or paperless (PDF)
• Finding an audience for your photo project
• Completion and peer review of a “micro–project”

One of the overriding objectives of this course will be creating a purpose for your photographs, offsetting the trend—to paraphrase technology writer Om Malik—of “photographing everything and looking at nothing.” All that is required is a pen and notepad, a handful of related photographs plus some preparation between classes nearing the end of the six weeks.