Please click here to tell me all about your process, your style, and what you learned.
Genres of Photography
For your self-directed project, you are tasked with choosing a genre, or style, of photography and creating a series of at least 10 photographs.
Explore the links below to learn more about the following genres.
Photo Essay Reflection
Robert Frank
Please take the time to consider the meaning and value of your photo essay, and tell me about it! Click here.
Composition Quiz
Click here and show me everything you know about COMPOSITION!
Women in Photography!
Click here to choose a photographer to research today for your book page.
Light Painting Reflection
Click here to tell me about your experience with light painting, and what you learned!
Light Painting: Editing
Please click here to find your light painting photos and to edit them!
Parts of the Camera Quiz!
You will prevail!
Emotional Portrait Reflection
Click here to complete your project reflection! Take your time and use your very best writing.
Emotion in Portraiture
View the portrait below.
What emotion(s) do you see in this portrait?
List three choices the photographer made in order to communicate this emotion.
Write your answers here!
Reflection Time
Please complete your zine reflection here.
Juxtaposition and Meaning
Joe Webb creates collages that draw attention to particular social issues by using juxtaposition. What social issues do you think the artist is talking about in these collages? What makes you think that?
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See more of his work here.
Choose one of the above images and describe what social issue you think Webb is discussing with his work, and why.
Critique a Master
Click on this link and write three strong sentences describing what you see.
Collage in Street Art
Collage is all around us, if we look. Check out these scenes to see examples of collage in street art.
Notice the complexity in these, and consider how you can show a similar complexity in your zine collages.
Juxtaposition in Zines
Check out this link to see a zine that is drawing attention to the social issue of homelessness through juxtaposition of words and images.
Moms Demand Action used juxtaposition in imagery to draw attention to the social issue that they are fighting for:
Creating a Zine
"A zine (/ˈziːn/ ZEEN; short for magazine or fanzine) is most commonly a small-circulation self-published work of original or appropriated texts and images usually reproduced via photocopier."
We have been focusing on the potential for social change through imagery. You will now have a chance to focus on one social issue of your choosing, and express your understanding of this issue through creating a zine. Zines are multimedia; you can use photography, drawing, painting, writing, and collage in order to express yourself. You must show at least two points of view in your work.
Do NOT worry about perfection in creating your zine. Zines are typically created in a "lo-fi" or low-fidelity style of art, meaning that they do not seek a polished or perfect look.
Gordon Parks
The photo essay, "Harlem Gang Leader," was published in LIFE magazine in 1948. Soon after, Gordon Parks was offered a position as the first African American staff photographer at LIFE. More on Parks: Video and NPR Tribute
Some of the images Parks shot of Red Jackson, leader of the "Midtowners," are below.
Robert Frank
Robert Frank was a native of Switzerland who came to the US and documented what he saw on a road trip. His photos turned into his seminal work, The Americans.
What Does a Picture Communicate?
All of these magazine covers of President Obama have a completely different mood, composition, and message. What do you think the photographers/media are trying to communicate through each of these? How do they achieve their chosen message through the images they have chosen?
