Discover your unique style!

Use your cell phone to Build an awesome Photo Portfolio

Each class meets on Zoom for an hour
Monday -Friday for three weeks
3:30 pm - 4:30pm PST

For ages 13-18

Rebecca Stees, Instructor

$230

HOW IT WORKS…

Try Something New!

Learn

  • Get inspired by contemporary photographers

  • See how composition and lighting can improve your work

Create

  • Start photographing with daily photo prompts 

  • Experiment with developing your creative eye and style

Shape

  • Enhance you images through editing

  • Create a strong 10-15 image Portfolio

“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”  — Ansel Adams

Daily Schedule

3:30 pm Welcome!  Share your photo experiment (& offer encouragement to your peers)

3: 55 pm Explore the portfolio of a contemporary photographer

4:15 pm Learn a new photography or editing trick 

4:25 pm Get your next creative photo prompt

4:30 pm See you tomorrow!

JOIN US!

Each class has a different theme.

June 1 - June 19

Selfies vs. Portraits

Explore portrait photography!

Learn tricks about portraiture, symbolism and expression.

Get inspired by contemporary photographers —

Cindy Sherman - Kimiko Yoshida - Lucas Samaras - Duane Michals - Wendy Ewald - and Vivian Maier

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Start photographing with creative prompts like…

  • Transform yourself with makeup or costume

  • Look into a Tiny mirror

  • Recreate a scene from a movie

“It’s one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it’s another thing to make a portrait of who they are.”  — Paul Caponigro

June 22 - July 10

Fantasy Vs. Reality

Explore experimental photography!

Learn tricks about expressing perspective, constructed reality, and surrealism

Get inspired by contemporary photographers —

Sandy Skoglund - Andreas Gursky - Jeff Wall - Mori Mariko - Arthur Tress - Daniel Gordon - Jacolby Satterwhite

Start photographing with creative prompts like …

  • Show Life in a Fishbowl

  • Represent something and it’s exact opposite

  • Find new angle at the convenience store

    The picture that you took with your camera — is the imagination you want to create — with reality.” - Scott Lorenzo

July 13-31

Music vs. Landscape

Explore landscape and documentary photography!

Learn tricks about expressing rhythm, dramatic light and mood .

Get inspired by contemporary photographers —

David Hockney - Catherine Opie - Martin Parr - Shirin Neshat - and Annie Leibovitz

Start experimenting with creative prompts like….

  • Recreate a dream

  • Make a “joiner” or panoramic

  • Show a change that happens over time.

“Photography for me is not looking, it’s feeling. — If you can’t feel what you’re looking at — then you’re never going to get others to feel anything when they look at your pictures.”  — Don McCullin

Aug 3-21

Shadow vs Color

Explore black and white and color photography!

Learn tricks about expressing time sense : past / present / future, abstraction, and depth of field

Get inspired by contemporary photographers —

Diane Arbus - Carrie Mae Weems - William Eggleston - Todd Hido - Hiroshi Sugimoto  - and Sally Mann

Start experimenting with creative prompts like…

  • Show two perspective of different people in a relationship.

  • Find something that is askew or fragile

  • Play with the ideas of big and small

What makes photography a strange invention is that it’s primary raw materials are light and time.   -John Berger

“We are making photographs to understand what our lives mean to us.”  — Ralph Hattersley