How do you incorporate specific ideas and perspectives into photographs that speak to others? How do you find your own voice through image making?
In this online class photographers will learn to develop a project on topics that are important or personal to them. Emphasis will be placed oncontent and the process of articulating one's own vision, whether fine art or documentary, andaround honing one's individual voice. Participants may want to work with strangers, develop a project in their own home, or explore a topic of concern to them. You will approach documentary narratives as a way of photographing in the world, each student from their own intimate visual and personal perspective.
Through a series of assignments, discussions, and reviews of students work, you will jump start strategies for incorporating personal vision, and translating ideas into images. Participantsmay work on an on-going project, begin a new one, or simply work on exploring new ways of seeing and thinking about aspects of their photographic process. The class will includegroup and individual critiques, and culminate in a final edited sequence of photographs. All processes and camera formats are welcomed, including Smartphone.
Level: Intermediate.
Dates: Six weekly sessions, online class, (Sunday, Jan 28 -Mar 10, 2024, no class of Feb 18).
Times: 10am - 1pm, EST.
Course Fee:$695 members / $745 non-members (non-members will receive a one year membership to the Griffin Museum, a $75 value).
About the Instructor
Photo by Jonathan Wiggs
Lisa Kessler is a photographer and educator based in Boston. Her long-term documentary projects include the idea of the color pink in America; sexual abuse and the rise of the survivors' movement; young people in our public schools; and portraits of families coping with homicide. Her candid photographs are typically made after extended collaboration with subjects.
Lisa's work has been supported by the George Gund Foundation, the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Honickman Foundation and Center for Documentary Studies, the Photographic Resource Center, and Pictures of the Year International.
Her work is in the permanent collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Teaching Museum of Lehigh University. She teaches Documentary Photography at Endicott College, and is represented by Anderson Yezerski Gallery.
Student Testimonials:
Lisa Kessler is a professional photographer and a professional teacher. She did not convene classes to discuss her own work, but to deepen and propel her students' work.She laid out a recipe for self-discovery with a camera.
- Richard Jacobs, Psychologist/Photographer