I’m teaching a class online this fall with Photographic Center Northwest- it’s about narrative and storytelling in photography- to sign up or check out their full catalog go to their website: www.pcnw.org
The Narrative in Photography Sept.27 - Dec. 6, 2025 (*No class on Nov. 29 - Thanksgiving Break) Day/Time: Saturday 10am-1pm (Pacific Time)
Course Description: Discover how images tell a story of their own and venture out to capture a story with a visual message at its core. Photography has always wrestled with the idea of truth; explore the limits of fiction and reality as you work on weekly assignments. This class will focus on the power of storytelling in photography throughout its history with lectures about the work of Julia Margaret Cameron to LaToya Ruby Frazier and Alec Soth. You will be creating your own photo stories; doing research on a chosen topic and organizing your creative process to present a final project. A good story is based on a strong idea and can be developed in many different ways. It does not have to be linear with a beginning, middle and end but it should have a strong central idea. In this class we will be exploring different forms of narrative in photography, some will be carried out in a series or photo essay and other narratives will be contained in one single image.