| Teacher
Statement |
Photography begins with a need to explore and a desire
to discover.
My goal for my students; to awaken the possibilities,
through photography, of a new way of seeing. A new view
of the world revealed through photography. The second
goal is to help students acquire the necessary craft (technique)
steps to communicate what their visual search has revealed.
If it is fair to say that photography is not brain surgery,
nor does it require a lot of equipment, as is witnessed
through the early work of the masters of photography (
look at the work of Paul Strand, Eugene Smith, Harry Callahan,
or Ansel Adams) - then why all the talk about equipment
and the continual emphasis put on the “craft (technique)?”
Simply, it’s a lot easier to talk about “how”
(technique) the photograph was made, rather than the “why”
(intent) and "what" (content) of a photograph.
My classes and workshops will strive to expand student’s
visual awareness (the art of seeing) as well as develop
the student’s craft (technique) skills including
the use of the three camera controls (the shutter, aperture,
and focus), understanding exposure and recognizing how
light affects your photograph, using filters and other
accessories to affect the photograph, compositional elements
common to all good photography, and, finally, understanding
the computer and Adobe Photo Shop so that you can produce
an accurate print of what you saw when making the photograph.
And finally, to make students aware that we stand on the
shoulders of giants. Individuals that fought for and revealed
photography as an art form and brought us to the place
where photography is today. We need to look at the work
of past photographers so we can understand the foundation
we stand on.
This journey is a lot of fun, there’s no other way
to look at it! |
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