Documents of the Imagination

In this beginning workshop, students will learn all the controls and functions on their digital Single Lens Reflex (SLR) cameras, basic camera operation (including f-stop, shutter speed and ISO), fundamental concepts of photography, and how to control the photograph’s final look.  Discussions include composition and light, how to get the background...

Photography is a lifelong journey, a practice that's never over. This course will give you the skills and training to start taking better pictures with your digital camera. Part 1: Digital Camera Essentials - Live, fully interactive virtual learning In the first session, we'll introduce you to the essential functions of your digital camera,...

We'll introduce you to the essential functions of your digital camera, including shooting modes, shutter speed, aperture and ISO, and explore how to think about taking a picture you'll be proud to share.

This class is an introduction to plant-based photographic processes! It will cover anthotypes, chlorophyll printing, lumens, and phytograms. We will meet via online platform once a week for demos and students will then take what they have learned and complete that week’s assignment, returning for critique and a new demo each week.  Anthotypes...

Join Rodrigo Valenzuela, 2021 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient and Associate Professor and Head of the Photography Department at UCLA, for a webinar on exploring personal projects. Rodrigo will present how he treads ideas and material among each project, and reveal the details of his research and material experimentation. Webinar – Online Learning...

Learn the art and essential techniques of working with 4x5 and 8x10 cameras In this course, a long-time large format photographer will discuss and demonstrate the use of different types of field and studio cameras, tripods, and other accessories and how they can be used in the field. Learn how to pre-visualize and capture landscapes, plants, or small...

There is a long history of photographers who have used the written word to inform and enhance their image making. American documentary photographer Dorthea Lange said, “All photographs—not only those that are so called ‘documentary’…can be fortified by words.” More and more contemporary artists are exploring the form to find new means...

Your phone has become one of the most versatile imaging tools around today. Learn how to unleash its potential and your creativity. Covers hardware add-ons like lenses and filters, apps for networking and editing, and some of the basics of better composition.

Photography’s essential artifact – the picture that’s created by a camera and printed on paper or viewed on a screen – is usually said to represent “the real world” faithfully, and with great precision. But those images are only representations; they’re separate from that real world in several very fundamental ways. The way lenses see...

In the first part of this course, we scrutinized the essence of “camera vision”. We discussed the mechanics of that vision – the particular attributes of the machine that makes photographs, and how it is similar to but different than the operations of our human optic system, as well as the unique perceptual testimony offered by the resulting...

The Documentary Photography Narrative: Creating and Publishing a Project Through image making, critique, historical overview, and editing, this workshop will explore how to tell visual stories and form a cohesive narrative body of work that can be published. The workshop is open to those who may be just beginning this path and to those who may have...

Have you thought that you’d like to publish a photo book? Maybe you have a concept in mind. Or a body of work to support your concept. Or you have only a vague idea. Or a “someday” wish to do a book but no real project yet. Harvey Stein will offer a way to shape your ideas, to conceive and explore your concept and to determine the approach that...

Darren Ching, owner of the Klompching Gallery, will present a webinar on Gallery Representation explaining what that is and what’s involved by both parties – the art dealer and the photographer. The webinar will discuss how commercial galleries operate, selling and exhibiting of work, pricing, etc. This webinar is informed by Darren Ching’s 12...

Discover how to make artful photos of birds in the wild without heavy, expensive equipment in this three-part introduction Creating compelling artistic bird photography doesn’t have to mean lugging an expensive long lens. There are ways to get close to birds responsibly, and there are camera settings that will help you to shoot compelling work,...

One of the early photographic processes, invented in 1842 by Sir John Hirschel, was the cyanotype. It is based on sunlight causing a change in a light sensitive emulsion brushed onto paper or fabric. Many of the early photographic images were called “sun prints” because they had to be exposed using UV lights, or sunlight. This is a contact print...

Sustainable Darkroom: Sustainable Thinking, Practice and Waste Management  This online course consists of three classes exploring sustainability within photography. Taught by the leaders of Sustainable Darkroom, this course is focused on creating sustainable photographic habits through thought and practice. Classes include Sustainable Thinking...

In between and alongside the development of long-term photographic projects, a lot of other work gets made—work that may not be substantial enough for a book or easily assimilated into a larger project. This course is dedicated to making something out of these other pictures, the “minor” works, one-off series, and various odds and ends that have...

If you have ever wanted to create collages or are interested in discovering new techniques for combining images, Sarah Hadley will show you ways to enhance your personal projects by collage. In this webinar, Hadley will discuss a variety of methods employed by both historic and contemporary artists. The webinar will focus on techniques not requiring...

This workshop considers the possibilities of the photographic portrait and identifies several modalities prolific in portrait making throughout history. Drawing on a range of materials as impetus, including art criticism, fiction writing, essays, poems and short stories this eight-week online program will consist of group discussions, creative play...

Viewing the world indirectly offers us a unique opportunity to communicate ideas and emotions in ways that move beyond the usual representation of a subject. Whether our inspiration takes root in grand landscapes or the smallest of microscopic organisms, the possibilities are endless when we examine the world from diverse perspectives. This online...