An effective image expresses your ideas and personal vision. This studio encourages you to explore analog, alternative process, and digital photography while experimenting with new ways of seeing.

Through lectures, critiques, and discussions, you will learn the technical and aesthetic aspects of photography:

• Advanced metering, exposure, and processing
• Darkroom photograms and enlargements
• Cyanotype printing (hand-coated non-silver process)
• Manipulating images using Adobe Photoshop
• Making digital negatives using inkjet transparency media
• Self-publishing techniques; DIY magazines
• Alternative origins of digital images (scanning/re-photographing/collage)

By the end of the course, you will have developed a portfolio of images in a variety of mediums, a set of small handmade magazines, and the ability to think critically about and articulate the power of images and image-making.

Photography: Black & White, Digital, and Experimental is an all-day studio. Students should have access to a DSLR or mirrorless camera with battery, memory card, and fully manual functions (full control over aperture, shutter speed, ISO, color balance), capable of making RAW files, and a zoom or prime lens capable of manual focus.

Pre-College 2024 application opens September 2023.