Suda House 

Tuesday, 6:30 PM–8 PM PST 
January 19–February 23 
(6 weeks, 9 total hours of instruction) 
Zoom 
$160/180 

Ultimately, your photographs are about you. 

It is called your personal work because you see and create with a camera—you experience mindful moments, capturing and preserving these unique images. Now what . . . share them on a phone screen, create a social media or website, make prints that end up stored under your bed? Or step back and look at your photographs with fresh eyes? 

If you are an emerging photographer, a seasoned image-maker or just want to embrace a new viewpoint within the creative realm of photography, this class will demystify current trends and point you to the tried-and-true methods for understanding your work. It is a short course to either jump start the new year with new ideas or solidify your current projects with new eyes and valuable testing of your work with feedback from your peers. 

We will tackle the following: Where do images and ideas come from within you? How to put these into your practice? Self-examination of how you work/play plus how you make choices within your editing process. You will be challenged to consider how the visual and conceptual pathways of content, intent, place, and genre apply to your current work, and hopefully this course’s discoveries will drive your future work, while embracing your creativity in newfound ways. 

The course will be anchored by readings from The Creative Act: A Way of Being, by Rick Rubin.   These readings will enrich and reflect upon the individual presentations via Zoom to bring full circle a personal definition for you. 

At the conclusion of this class, a publication of each photographer’s images will be compiled in an anthology for our First Person series. One copy will be added to the Athenaeum Library. 

Materials: Required for the first class meeting, on Zoom: Photograph (jpg) images to share that define you: one image or a recent set of images that represent your vision. Textbook: The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin. ISBN 9780593652886. Suggested for every class meeting: either a journal that you currently use or a Moleskin-like bound book. You will need this journal for taking discussion notes to refer to during the course and other important thoughts, ideas, and points you want to remember. 

Max students: 12