Course Details

Students in this course will actively interface with various theories, techniques, and processes of image production through the making of artworks, lectures, demonstrations, readings, class discussions, reviews, site visits, screenings, and guest lectures. Course content will emphasize photography’s potential for self-expression and creative problem solving in an artistic context, while also providing a grounding for critical awareness of photographic images both as artworks and as a form of communication. 

Students will complete photographic projects in response to a set of assignments. Each assignment is designed to stimulate consideration of a specific conceptual approach, but may be realized with a vast range of technical and creative solutions. Through this course, students should develop a basic literacy of photographic production and critique, while gaining an understanding of historic and contemporary photographic practices. Additionally, we will work to form independent voices and approaches both within the classroom and the larger artistic community of the greater Seattle area.