D-TH5 The Nature Photography Workshop Series - ONLINE
Early 4 Week Class | FULL (Membership Required)
This workshop is a 4-part series in which participants will learn about photography and practice being observant and looking closely at the natural world. The only equipment necessary for this course is a smartphone.
The first session will introduce the course and provide technical tips on maximizing your device's photographic capabilities. In each of the following sessions we will cover technical aspects of photography such as: composition, exposure, focus, depth of field, etc.
Thematic photographing assignments will be given each week to encourage participants to start their explorations. Sharing back a selection of photographs the following session will allow us to learn about aspects of photography as a group.
Rebecca Heyl
Rebecca Heyl is an artist, author and educator. After completing an undergraduate degree in Psychology, Rebecca studied documentary photography and photojournalism at New York’s International Center of Photography. While living in New York she gained vital experience working as a newspaper photographer, as well as an archival assistant at Black Star Publishing, a photo agency founded in 1935.
Rebecca began her teaching career in Florence, Italy. She taught black and white darkroom photography for three years, before returning to North America to pursue an MFA at the joint School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University program in Boston. She has taught courses ranging from darkroom photography to photojournalism to art activism at several universities.
In recent years, Rebecca has become involved in the use of photography for pedagogical documentation in primary education settings. Heyl’s personal work largely deals with social rights issues carried out in the mediums of photography and installation. Windows in the Wall (Skira/Rizzoli) is the title of her first book, published in 2008.