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808-965-7094In the world of contemporary photography, the latest approaches emerge every year that captivate the viewer with their fresh aesthetics. In this author’s course we will share with you those practices that are just beginning to emerge in art photography. Thus after the course many of you will have an information advantage and you will be the one to decide the direction of photography of the future.
The course instructor will share with you the most valuable discoveries of his research with course attendees and will offer assignments so that you can work out the techniques you have learned in practice.
The course is hands-on. This means that each lesson will be followed by a topic for which you will have a week of independent work to work through. So the course can be a boost to your creative development in these challenging times. We will help you focus your mental optics and start a project on a topic that is relevant to you.
Lessons will last three hours.
The course duration is 7 weeks.
By the end of the course students develop an understanding of the latest approaches, practical application of skills.
Course program
Collage
- Appliqué as a method of thinking
- Minimalism in art
- Post-photography
- Mixed media
- Constructed reality
Conceptual still life
- Photography and sculpture
- Post Photography
- Land Art
- Photography Borders
- Landscape Intervention
Light
- Working with Light as an Object
- Experimental Practices
- Light installations
- Photography without a camera
- Experiments with Prints
- Printing techniques and methods
- Vintage and current practices
Portrait Photography
- Modern Self-Portrait
- Body
- Appropriation
Modern Project
- Author’s style
- Handwriting
- Formal expression of ideas
- Non-linear photo combinations
Graduation project. Portfolio Review
- Selection and analysis of photographic series for student project. Portfolio Review.
- Formation of a finished visual project on contemporary photography and discussion of possible ways to develop creativity. Lecturer’s analysis of the work.
- Picking out students’ work and discussing ways to develop their work.