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Course Description

Summary

This course explores how photographers work with the materiality of the medium to create representations of desired realities and interrogate “official histories,” especially those connected to colonization, migration, and gender. The course will look at techniques for intervened photography and photo-collage and apply them to creating photobooks. Students will be encouraged to think of photography as an object and to consider the audience's experience with the materiality of photography through photobooks. Class time will engage group discussions based on reading assignments from photography theory, gender studies, and visual anthropology and the work of different LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC artists. Students will complete in-class and weekly assignments, group critiques, and a final self-directed project to produce a photobook.  InDesign, Photoshop, and Lightroom will be available on all 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.