Perspectives in Photography

Perspectives in Photography is an introduction to photography as a medium capable of documenting the world, critiquing it, and synthesizing new creative ideas. Students will learn about a variety of genres and conceptual approaches to photography through the lives and creative processes of artists from diverse backgrounds. Cell phone and/or DSLR cameras will be utilized to create photographic projects in a variety of genres (portraiture, still-life, documentary, etc.) while applying basic concepts of lighting, composition, and editing. Students will learn about how meaning is created through imagery and participate in that process. By the end of the course, they will achieve basic visual literacy in terms of learning to “read” an image and understand the creative decisions that are part of generating powerful photographs. As a result, students will be equipped to critically navigate and produce meaningful content for an increasingly image-saturated world.