When starting this program I wanted to bring some new practices for students as it related to the camera and picture taking. Instead of the program containing the expected elements of composition and rules behind photography (which we did cover) I wanted students to participate in exercises and activities that would expose them to new ideas behind the medium and other ways of using the camera as a tool for recording information, and image making.
In many of our initial discussions, many students’ experiences with cameras and picture taking was invested in snap shots, camera phone imagery, and other readily available imagery and practices. When asked to consider what the camera does (specifically what a digital camera does) as a translator of information into a digital code we began considering deeper connections behind the camera itself and it’s connections to our theme of Journeys and Migrations.
First tackling the idea of a “journey” and its many variations along with their own journeys taken - we began talking about family vacations, people moving from place to place and life as a journey itself. So with that we began our fist exercise.
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