Chicago Stories – Chicago Photography College

Chicago is a metropolis constructed on tales. Every photographer has photographed it. Few have realized to inform its tales.

Every neighborhood, storefront, prepare station, park, and avenue nook displays the folks, historical past, traditions, and on a regular basis moments that give town its character. The problem isn’t discovering tales. It’s studying methods to acknowledge them.

Chicago Stories is a seven-week images course that blends documentary images, environmental portraiture, avenue images, and picture essays that can assist you create significant visible tales. Rather than chasing particular person “great shots,” you’ll develop a private documentary undertaking centered on an individual, place, neighborhood, enterprise, or group that genuinely pursuits you.

Through classroom instruction, guided subject classes, critiques, and particular person teaching, you’ll discover ways to:

• Recognize compelling tales hiding in plain sight
• Research topics and {photograph} with higher intention and goal
• Capture portraits, particulars, environments, and candid moments that work collectively to inform a narrative
• Edit and sequence photos right into a cohesive picture essay
• Create a visible narrative that communicates one thing significant

By the tip of the course, you’ll have accomplished a completed picture essay and gained a sensible framework for approaching future documentary tasks with curiosity, endurance, and goal.

Date and Time: 

• Classes will happen on the Ravenswood location on Mondays at 7pm except for the 2 practicum/subject lessons. Please word that these lessons will happen on Saturday on the following dates and occasions:
  • Week 2: September twelfth at 11am
  • Week 4: September 26^th at 11am

Prerequisites: Photo I (or equal digicam information). Mobile telephone customers are additionally welcome.  No earlier Street, Documentary or Environmental Photography expertise is required!!