Documentary Photography - NEW!

Documentary Photography - NEW!

Adult Multi-Week | This class has been canceled

1812 West Main Street Richmond, VA 23220 United States

Digital Lab

Beginner

9/26/2019-11/14/2019

6:00 PM-9:00 PM EDT on Th

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$215.00

$193.50

$15.00

$50.00

This multi-week course will guide students through the process of imagining, planning and photographing a documentary series. Throughout an eight week period, students will gain exposure to different forms of documentary photography storytelling by viewing projects by key artists. We'll cover a variety of techniques, from the rules of exposure and camera technique to ethics and participant consent. Students will finish the course with a short documentary photography project. Each week students will engage in a mixture of critique, hands-on skill building and technical development.

  • Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible.
  • Students will need a digital OR film camera.
Fowler, Kate

Kate Elizabeth Fowler is a photographer and filmmaker from Richmond, Virginia. Kate holds a BFA in Photography & Filmmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University. She has served as the director of the Appalachian Media Institute, a project of Appalshop in Whitesburg, Kentucky. Formerly, Kate worked as the program coordinator of Magnum Foundation's Photography, Expanded initiative, which investigates documentary practice at the intersection of social justice and technology. She co-curated and produced their 2015 Photography, Expanded symposium at Parsons The New School for Design. She is currently on the editorial board of Roger May's Looking at Appalachia, a crowdsourced project that looks at photography in Appalachia, 50 years after the War on Poverty. Her writing and photography can be found on Burn Magazine, National Geographic, Oxford American, and American Suburb X.