Photography Classes in Online

This group meets once per month and is for photographers and media artists who are looking for long-term support and continuity while working on a project. We’ll discuss different approaches on how to best tell the story that fits each student’s individual project. During these monthly critiques we’ll also cover story structure, research, composition,...

Capture the spirit of a city by photographing people as they go about their lives and learn how to see a photo before it happens. Students will practice creating dynamic compositions using available light, shadows and lines that urban spaces offer. We’ll cover different ways of approaching strangers, daytime and evening photography, and equipment...

Every place has a story to tell, but sometimes it’s hard to see what’s right in front of you. Explore your immediate surroundings by discovering your neighborhood and it’s people and the changes happening, or focus on documenting family life right in your own home.  Students will develop their own personal storytelling style and means...

This online course is for photographers who already have an existing body of work they want to edit, sequence, and finalize for a website or portfolio.  We’ll discuss editing workflows, organizing and sequencing images to tell a strong story, narrowing down selections, the importance of consistent image quality, editing for the right target...

Strengthen and refine your skills in telling documentary stories and discover ways to get them out to an audience. We’ll discuss how to start a project, the creative process, strategies for working in the field with different subjects and locations, and how to identify and overcome obstacles. We’ll also explore new tools that can enrich your visual...

Create Environmental Portraits That Tell Powerful Stories This class is presented by the International Center of Photography (ICP). Learn how to tell stories about people by photographing them in their own environments—their homes, workplaces, or neighborhoods—and how to incorporate space to reveal intimate details. In this class, we delve...

Award-winning photojournalist Marco Bello will share his experience and skills on how to create powerful documentary stories. Students will learn different techniques to develop a strong narrative with their images. Through group discussions we’ll learn different approaches to documentary storytelling relating to political, social, personal...

Feeling a little stiff in your photographic practice? Need a little push to try something new? Stretch your creativity muscles with this new class! Unique weekly exercises will challenge you to experiment with creative approaches to storytelling and to try out new techniques and ways of taking pictures.  Along the way we’ll seek inspiration...

Learn how to make your food photos delicious but also as fresh and colorful as your creation (or the restaurant's)!  This workshop is made for everyone, for foodies and fans, chefs and cooks alike. Learn how to make your food photos delicious but also as fresh and colorful as your creation (or the restaurant's) using your mobile phone's camera....

This course is for students who would like to photographically explore the joys, sorrow, expectations, and demands of daily life including the intimacy of family, partnership, and personal identity. Through live group discussions and critique, each students’ creativity will be nurtured and a sustainable artistic practice will emerge. Ideas and images...

This class is for students who would like to refine and develop their composition skills and improve their photographic seeing, while telling stories with their photographs. Students will develop a heightened sensitivity to their surroundings while photographing in a variety of urban environments.  During group critique we will...

Learn how to tell stories about people by photographing them in their own environment — their home, workplace or on the street in their neighborhood — and how to incorporate space that tells a story about the subject.  We will discuss ways to make your subject feel comfortable and relaxed so that the images will illuminate their personality...

Are you in need of feedback on your current project? Or are you ready to start a new one but aren’t sure how to begin? This course is designed for photographers and media artists who are ready to start a new project, or are looking for support on a project they’re already working on. As a group we’ll discuss different approaches on how to...