Creative Thinking Archives - The Los Angeles Center of Photography

Creative Still Life with Tara Sellios (Online Learning – Six Sessions)

Explore still life as a poetic and expressive art form in this six-session online course with fine art photographer Tara Sellios. Through guided image-making, preliminary sketching, material exploration, and personal reflection, students will develop emotionally resonant photographs that speak to light, mood, and meaning.

Poetry of Abstraction with Susan Burnstine (Online Learning – Four Sessions)

This online workshop gives participants the skills to identify key abstract elements and skills to create compositions that bear little or no resemblance to the subject at hand.

Sunscape – Words & Frames: Writing the High Desert with Montserrat Andrée Carty (In-Person Learning)

Establish a creative dialogue between photography and writing through generative prompts, image-making, and experimentation in the High Desert. Discover how language can expand, complicate, and deepen the stories your photographs have to tell.

Attention! (Photo-counterpoint) with Penelope Umbrico (In-Person Learning – Three Sessions)

Slow down, look closely, and discover how sustained observation can transform the way you see. Join Reservoir mentor and celebrated artist for a deep dive into looking, drawing-based exercises, discussions, and immersive experiences that will shift how you see and position your own work.

The Photojournalist’s Toolkit with Thomas Alleman (Hybrid Learning – Six Sessions)

This class serves as an introductory course in photojournalism methods and conventions for students who've achieved "advanced beginner" status, at least. Through demonstrations and exercises, students will learn about the camera techniques that are best suited to the situations a photojournalist will be assigned to cover: breaking news, the scheduled news event, the feature situation, sports, and the portrait.

Human Impacted Landscapes with Morgain Bailey (Online Learning – Six Sessions)

In this six-session online workshop, photographers of all levels will explore how to develop meaningful, project-based work centered on the human-impacted landscape. Through a supportive and reflective learning environment, participants will be encouraged to deepen their creative practice while engaging with the places they inhabit in more intentional and nuanced ways.

From Memory to Story with Molly Wizenberg (Online Learning – Six Sessions)

In this class for creative nonfiction writers, we will practice tapping into our memories, rebuilding scenes from the past, and writing vividly from within them.

Beyond Focus: Mastering The Art of Blur with Susan Burnstine (Online Learning – Five Sessions)

In this workshop, students will explore a variety of ways to use blur in their imagery while being provided with essential tools to help understand how and why to use this aesthetic in their work.

Fins: A Deep Dive into Creative Strategy with Angela Bryant (Webinar)

Fins give you an edge while swimming, and this course is equipped with tools to help you navigate and thrive in an ocean filled with photographers. We will focus on exhibition strategies and talk about how to engage in meaningful networking. In addition to discussing how we can maximize our marketing, we will also consider social media and how posting can help us make waves within our social circles.

Sun Scapes and Shadow Gardens: A Photographic Workshop in Japanese Aesthetics with George Nobechi (Five Sessions – In-Person Learning – San Diego, CA)

In this workshop, George Nobechi returns to LACP to lead an extended, more in-depth iteration of his photographic course in Japanese Aesthetics (Western Light, Eastern Wind). Set on the beautiful grounds of Balboa Park, San Diego, the location is filled with museums, botanical gardens, and numerous possibilities for participants to observe and make photographs incorporating a quiet, thoughtful approach to image-making.

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