Creative Self-Portraiture – Part 1 with Ken Merfeld (Online Learning – Six Sessions)
This isn’t about appearances—it’s about essence. Through conceptual prompts and theatrical expression, you’ll uncover the self-portrait as a portal to your most authentic, imaginative self.
Read More about Creative Self-Portraiture – Part 1 with Ken Merfeld (Online Learning – Six Sessions)
Across six in-person sessions—including a Saturday field trip—students will examine how photographers have worked within and around the constraints of the medium for over 150 years. Through lectures, assignments, and discussion, we’ll study motion, time, detail and the unique properties of the photographic frame, just as John Szarkowski proposed in his classic text, The Photographer's Eye.
This workshop will explore the process of photographing your family and yourself—together or apart. “Family” may be interpreted as either relatives or chosen family; the focus will be on how we as individuals interact with people who shape our lives. Some artists make work about family to stop time, to commemorate everyday actions and emotions. Others make work to ask questions about what these moments mean and why families function the way that they do.
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.
Writing Pictures: The New Edition with Joanne Dugan (Online Learning – Five Sessions)
This highly collaborative workshop, open to both new and returning students, provides time and space to explore the dynamic relationship between writing and image making. Through a series of weekly creative prompts, students spontaneously generate new and innovative work in a collaborative, supportive setting that encourages risk taking.
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.
Join award-winning memoirist and teacher Molly Wizenberg for an intensive one-week workshop in memoir writing. In this class for creative nonfiction writers of all experience levels, we will use life's everyday experiences to reveal and write the stories that matter most.
Transforming Your Photographs with Kate Breakey (In-Person Learning – Four Sessions)
In this workshop, you will be introduced to some digital techniques using Lightroom and Photoshop and output images on a variety of papers. You will be instructed in the application of oil paints, pigments, pencils, and inks or pastels in combination, to extend your photographic image.
Read More about Transforming Your Photographs with Kate Breakey (In-Person Learning – Four Sessions)
Join renowned photographer and teacher Sam Abell for an intensive one-week workshop in documentary photography. The week will be structured to take serious photographers further on their journey.
The Art of Seeing with Stephen Wilkes (In-Person Learning – Three Sessions)
This workshop will be a deep meditation on elevating each of the student’s ability to take the time to see, enabling each student to explore a deeper and more personal vision through photographing.
Read More about The Art of Seeing with Stephen Wilkes (In-Person Learning – Three Sessions)