Online via Zoom | Class 103. It’s Personal: Seeing Your Photographs / Finding Your Creative Voice with Suda House | Athenaeum School of the Arts (September 9–October 14)

Ultimately, your photographs are about you. It’s 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, really step back and take a look with fresh eyes at your photographs?



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 tried-and-true methods for understanding your work. It is a short course to either jumpstart you with new ideas or solidify your current projects with a critical eye and valuable testing of your work with feedback from peers.



We will tackle the following questions: Where do images and ideas come from within you and how do you put these into practice? How do you work/play, and 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 drive future work, while embracing creativity in newfound ways.



The final class will be a virtual presentation of your portfolio to help to bring full circle a personal definition of your work and process.



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



Materials: Required for the first-class meeting on Zoom: photographic (jpg) image(s) to share that define you: at least one image or a recent set of images that represent your vision.



Optional: textbook: The Creative Act: A Way of Being, Rick Rubin, ISBN 9780593652886 (hard cover). Also check for an ebook copy.



Suggested for every class meeting: either a journal that you currently use or a Moleskine-like bound book. You will need this journal for taking discussion notes to refer back to during the course and other important thoughts, ideas, and points you want to remember.



Max students: 12