Course Description
Summary
This course offers students a hands-on opportunity in documentary photography where each student will learn about and develop long term projects. Students will conceptualize, produce, and edit photographs for a specific documentary project, and present a final product. This course will enable students to brainstorm about and select a long-term subject, undertake the photography, edit, and present their documentary projects. Classwork will include critiquing the work of iconic and contemporary photographers and their fellow students in an intelligent and thoughtful way as part of the learning process. Moreover, the instructor will work with each student as part of a formal critique process.
Each student will produce a long-term photographic project and this course includes in-class lectures, assignments, editing (selecting photos), and in-class critiques and discussions.
A limited number of digital SLR cameras will be available from the college for students to use throughout the term, and Photoshop and Lightroom will be available on all of our 12 workstations in the Photo Digital Lab.
Students will be required to have a Mac-compatible external hard drive and inkjet photo paper to complete assignments.
