“During this 8-week class students will explore digital & darkroom photography, digital art, and alternative processes like cyanotypes.”
This is the class description students had based their decision on, their decision to sign up for the spring session of TRAC: Exploring Photography. As you’ve already guessed, I’m sure, this is not how the Spring 2020 session went. So how did we explore photography? We discussed some technical decisions one may make when making a digital photograph, even with a cell phone! We talked about how different lighting informs a photograph. We looked at bodies of photographic work and discussed decisions made about composition and sequencing. Students worked towards their own cohesive body of work and wrote about their final series.
As different as the class was from the one they signed up for, five teens showed up every Tuesday afternoon for eight weeks straight. Their active participation, despite the hardship of the past few months, inspired me deeply. They listened, they shared, they learned. I feel confident in that, based on the work they produced and shared with me and with each other. One student willing to share one of said bodies of work is Carina Christman. Please enjoy Carina’s series, “Backyard Oasis”.
