Today was the first Delights of Seeing workshop at Hillsdale Prep. The workshop introduced the Afghan box camera which is unique because it is both a camera and a darkroom all in one wood box. It allowed students to see a photographic image appear on a paper negative in a tray of photo developer. Students ...
I have been preparing for my next media arts workshop series at Hillsdale Prep. The series begins Thursday, February 23rd and includes a total of three free after school workshops. The workshop title, “Delights of Seeing” is inspired by a Walker Evans (famous documentary photographer, 1903-1975) quote in which he states, “…the matter of art ...
The 7th and final week of our Explore Photography Workshop at Hillsdale Preparatory School featured a “scrap booking” project where students assembled examples of black and white film, cyanotype contact sheets, photographs of the camera obscuras made during the first workshop, salted paper prints of plants, and instant color photographs into accordion books fashioned to ...
The Week 6 HPS after school photography workshop was ambitious! The students were introduced to several principles of design with emphasis placed on movement. We looked at literal examples of movement in a photograph by Harold Edgerton… http://edgerton-digital-collections.org/ We also looked at John Paul Caponigro’s photo, “Running Deer” as an example of blurred motion… ...
During our 5th HPS Photography Workshop students learned about elements of design. They also studied historic photographs in featured in the book “Seeing Things: A Kids Guide to Looking at Photographs” by Joel Meyerowitz to find examples of their use. With lots of play dough, pipe cleaners, tooth picks, wooden blocks and marbles students created ...