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Discover a wide range of photography classes in NYC that will help you master the art of capturing stunning images. From beginner workshops to advanced courses, learn essential techniques, unleash your creativity, and take your photography skills to the next level.

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Wayfinding: Navigating the Physical and Graphic Space

Penumbra Foundation

Wayfinding: Navigating the Physical and Graphic Space of the Photobook It is not uncommon for a photographer or artist to have the desire to apply their images into the book format, but where do we begin this process? Further still, once we have created a layout, how do we go about printing and producing that which we see on the screen into a physical book?  Often daunting and confusing, knowing where to start can be paralyzing for many who...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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Strategies for the Photobook

Penumbra Foundation

Despite our digitized world—or maybe because of it—the photographic book is considered by many to be the optimal way to experience photographs. As something to hold and behold, the photobook is both visual and tactile. It occupies a conceptual and physical space while eliciting a deep sensory engagement.  This course is intended for any photographer who wants to acquire strategies for editing and compiling a body of photographs into a...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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Introductory Seven Weeks of Wet Plate

Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY

Attendees will take a comprehensive approach to the collodion process and its effective practice by the modern-day photographer. Its practitioners effectively make their own film through the coating of a metal plate with the collodion substrate, sensitizing it in a solution of silver nitrate, and exposing this plate in-camera while still wet. Hence its commonly known name “wet plate”. This seven week course is designed for those who want to...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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$800

7 sessions

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Inkjet Layering Over 19th Century Processes

Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY

This unique workshop will blend together inkjet printing with layering 19th century processes onto of the inkjet print. This technique is very unique, as you can manipulate color, tone and tint your blacks depending on what process you put over it. Using this technique will give you almost limitless possibilities while having the option to keep your original images in color.  We will be printing images digitally and making digital negatives...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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$495

2 sessions

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Experimental Digital Techniques

Penumbra Foundation

The combination of digital and analog techniques has become increasingly more popular, but have you ever wondered how to blend both mediums while furthering your exploration of color, texture and substrates? In two days, Morgan Post will expand your thinking on both digital and analog photography. You will explore different surfaces to print on such as metal and glass. The topics that will be covered include: Inkjet layering over analog processes...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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Five Days of Alternative Process

Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY

Are you seeking a hands-on photographic experience using historic 19th-century processes? Each day, students will engage with the chemistry and the materials.  Among the processes you’ll learn in this class are: Cyanotype Albumen Collodio-Chloride Kallitype & others! Different toning options and techniques will be demonstrated and discussed. Students will be contact printing, which requires a large format or digital negative. Digital...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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$1,125

5 sessions

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Introduction to Lighting

Penumbra Foundation

Hosted in our north light studio, this workshop will introduce photographers to the fundamentals of lighting and provide an overview of the three basic qualities of light: hard light, diffused light and reflected light. Through hands-on demonstrations and shooting, students will learn how to see and work with the direction and quality of light, including both artificial and daylight sources. Students will also shoot with lighting equipment including...

(8) Beginner 18 and older
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Eight Weeks of Alternative Process

Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY

Want to learn a range of new and fun photo processes, but you are unsure which one you want to learn and explore? Do you have a project in mind but are unsure how to manifest it in print or capture? During this eight-week workshop, students will learn the basics of a range of alternative photographic print and lens-based techniques. The course typically covers four to eight processes with many variations. Processes covered in previous sessions...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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$1,275

8 sessions

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Intro to Strobe for Wet Plate

Penumbra Foundation @ 36 E 30th St, New York, NY

Learn how to bring instant illumination to your wet plate collodion photography with this introductory workshop. Discover the power and creative possibilities of strobe lighting and gain practical skills in portrait and still-life lighting techniques. Enhance your practice and make stunning images with the help of powerful yet economical strobes and light modifiers.

(8) All levels 18 and older
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$875

2 sessions

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Intro to Wet Plate with Em White

Penumbra Foundation

In this weekend workshop, students will learn one of the earliest photographic processes, wet-plate collodion. This process enables one to make images start to finish completely by hand— students will learn to prep plates, mix chemistry, properly expose and process images. While many instructors emphasize the technical potential of this process, White's approach values experimentation and physical interventions in the creation of an image. This...

(8) Beginner 18 and older
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On Camera Flash

PhotoUno Photography School

How many of you haven't been blinded by your camera flash? And when you see your photos your subject is too bright, even pale? Even though it might not always seem so On Camera Flash is a very useful tool to have, but only if you know how to use it. In this workshop you will learn how to use your flash properly so that it helps you and not work against you. You will learn how to use flash indoors and outdoors, how to strengthen and weaken your...

(322) Beginner 19 and older
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Cyanotype Filmmaking on 16mm Motion Picture Film

Penumbra Foundation

Learn how to adopt the traditional cyanotype process to adhere to motion picture film base to set your photograms and contact prints in motion! In this 2 day workshop, participants will mix their own cyanotype solution, prep a BW print stock and coat 16mm film with the solution in order to create short 16mm cyanotype films. The first session we’ll mix, prep and coat the material. Then, while the material is drying, each participant will have...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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The Death of Analog: Life Cycles of Photography

Penumbra Foundation

The much-heralded death of analog has not actually taken place; instead, a remarkable process of reinvention has occurred, in which the threat of extinction itself has led to new avenues of exploration. Rather than engaging in the old “analog vs. digital” debate, in which one is found to be superior to the other; we will take a more holistic approach and consider the ever-present forces of fluidity and transformation that have characterized...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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Your Portfolio & More

Penumbra Foundation

This in-depth, and energetic workshop, is designed to establish your photographic portfolio and explore the next steps in evolving your practice. Weekly meetings are structured around critique, the study of established and emerging artist portfolios, reviewing contemporary photography books, and refining artist statements.  This workshop is ideal for photographers of any ability, or discipline, who are interested in pushing the boundaries...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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8"x10" Wet Plate

Penumbra Foundation

Elevate your wet plate skills with our immersive 8x10” workshop at Penumbra Foundation. Explore the art of creating tintypes and ambrotypes on a larger scale, refining your collodion technique under expert guidance. Utilize our top-notch facilities and equipment for an unforgettable hands-on experience in the historic process of wet plate photography.

(8) Intermediate 18 and older
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$650

2 sessions

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Crash Course: Easy Stills and Tabletops

BKC @ 736 Bushwick Ave, Brooklyn, NY

ATTENTION:  This class will be offered as scheduled, but we will start the class using an online, live-streaming platform.  This will allow us to do full LIVE teaching, with realtime interaction and a thru-the-lens camera view for demonstrations. We are excited to offer this class at a discount in response to challenges faced by the health emergency. In this workshop, we'll show you some important techniques for shooting smaller objects...

(325) All levels 13 and older
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Intensive Holography

Holographic Studios

Our workshops are designed for those who are here for only a limited time and want to cover as much as possible of the basics to take home. We discuss how to make the major types of holograms with lectures and diagrams. Each day we get to cover several types of holograms based on your interests. A minimum number or no holograms are made depending upon available time constraints as well as the areas you decide you want to cover, although we do spend...

(2) Advanced 18 and older
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The Photographic Process as Self-Care

Penumbra Foundation @ Online Class, New York, NY

This course challenges you to take a more in-depth look into why you create the work that you do - and how to nourish your source of inspiration. Participants slow down and reflect on how they make work, and integrate self-care into their practice. This course will focus on how we can craft our practice to meet and/or address our personal needs through class discussion, work presentations, and writing assignments.  Because our emphasis will...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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$385

5 sessions

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Virtual Art Walks

Penumbra Foundation

This class explores New York’s exciting art scene through a series of virtual gallery and studio visits, including live interviews with producers, curators, and gallery reps, to illuminate the works on view and help to spark critical discussions about art and photography. Excursions extend from Manhattan, to Brooklyn and Queens, and focus on contemporary photo-based work as well as installation and video.Each live interview will include a Q&A...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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Sensitive Cameras

Penumbra Foundation

In this workshop, participants will explore and actively chart relationships between the camera body and the bodies it photographs. Motivated by the early work of artist Aïm Deüelle Lüski, this workshop leads attendees through the process of building cameras out of the objects that they are designed to photograph. Thus, to photograph buildings, we will construct building-like cameras; to photograph fruit, we will core out fruits and take...

(8) All levels 18 and older
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