Kane Stewart

This course is geared towards students with little to no photography experience who desire to integrate the medium into their concentration. Students, such as those working in the physical and social sciences as well as art forms outside of photography, will learn to channel self-chosen topics through photography as a means to express, illustrate, instruct, challenge, promote, document, and or discover ways of seeing and representing what most interests them about the world. We will begin by covering the basics of lighting and composition, mechanics of shutter speed and aperture, lens options, accessories, and features in photographic printmaking and digital display. From there, we will explore and discuss how others use the medium to support their work in an assortment of fields outside of photography. Students will be expected to complete and share biweekly assignments related to their areas of interest and practice. The course will be taught primarily with digital technology such as smartphones, digital cameras, and computer software. Keywords:Photography

Still Lives and Story Lines: Photography and the Narrative: This course will focus on the elements of storytelling and photography. We will consider three modes of photographic practice: the personal narrative, photojournalism, and documentary photography. In the project-centered course, class members will choose between completing an extended semester-long project or two smaller, half-semester projects. Over the course of the spring semester, we will also explore critical issues in contemporary as well as historical photographic practice. Readings and discussions will revolve around aesthetic and practical concerns raised by individual practice. In the critique process, students will be asked to assess each other's ongoing projects within a larger context of known works and approaches: who gets to tell what stories for which audience? Students interested in taking this course should have prior photography experience and be confident with their skills; there will be minimal technical training introduced. Instead, we will concentrate on the research, approach, editing, and sequence.At the end of the semester, students will curate an exhibition of work generated by class participants. Keywords:Photography, Narrative Photography

In this edition of Photo I, the Fall 2024 semester will be broken up into two thematic explorations. In the first, we will explore the potential of the medium to act as a mirror in reflecting our thoughts, feelings, and related states of our subjective experience. Building off this experience, the second half of the semester will focus on the world in which we find ourselves. This is primarily an analog-based course with work produced for it using a 35mm film camera and images printed in a darkroom setting. We will cover all the basic camera functions, framing and composition, working with ambient and artificial lighting, darkroom printing, and sequencing photographic series. Students may choose to work with 35mm or medium format analog cameras to complete their projects. Later in the semester, some digital hybrid practices will be introduced-such as scanning film and basic editing of monochrome images in Photoshop. Technical labs will consist mostly of analog workflows with limited digital practice introduced late in the term. Please note, students attend only one of the two lab sessions per week. In concert with technical aspects, we will consider historic and contemporary photographic practices and photographers. Through readings, discussions, and critiques, students will learn how to critically read and interpret photographs while producing meaningful photographic work. Keywords: photography, 35mm, darkroom

This course will explore handmade photographic techniques such as cyanotype, platinum/palladium, gum printing, and carbon printing. We will examine photographic imagery made using these techniques by historic and contemporary figures in photography. Workshops, readings, and critique will be integrating into the technical aspects of this course. While there will be a healthy emphasis placed on technical application, the overall objective here is for students to actively explore alternative processes so as to incorporate these options into photographic practice. Engaged participation is a critical component of this course and it will, along with an end of the semester portfolio, figure prominently in course evaluations. Students with previous college-level photography experience will be better prepared to excel in this class Keywords:Photography, alternative photographic processes