Photocourse 3 -  Intermediate-advanced level photography course & group photography exhibition project

Please email j.gilberd@xtra.co.nz to register your interest
2023 dates t.b.a. Course places limited to 6.

Dates

• 2024-25 dates t.b.a. but running from mid-year, group exhibition later in 2025
  
• Evening classes  5.30pm-7.30pm Mondays
• Portrait lighting workshop (a Saturday)

• Individual 1:1 tutorial meetings during the course
• Several additional group meetings and some individual sessions  to prepare for the group exhibition at Photospace Gallery in early 2025.

Tutors: John Williams, James Gilberd.

Photo: John Williams

Introduction

This part-time course, run from our studios in central Wellington, continues from Photocourse 1 & 2 and provides largely self-directed assignments and more technically challenging workshops. We will look further into the major themes of photography and help you to build on your photographic vision and enhance your creative use of camera and lighting techniques.

The aim of the course is for you to build a set of images suitable for a professional or artistic portfolio, and for a group exhibition at Photospace Gallery. Note: acceptance of work for the group exhibition is at the discretion of Photospace Gallery and subject to its conditions.

You will need your own digital SLR camera or  mirrorless interchangeable-lens camera. Alternatively, you could do all or part of the course work on film if you wish. There is a darkroom available at a preferential hire rate if you want it.

Urban landcsape photography. Photo: John Williams

Urban landscape - Johnsonville, February 2015. Photo: James Gilberd (photo links to exhibition review)

2022 Photocourse 3 group exhibition 'Necessary Distraction'

Photo by John Williams (links to his 'Going Viral' series, shot during Lockdown 2020)

Theme

This time, the theme of the Photocourse 3 will be your own local community - your neighbourhood, suburb, home town, virtual community, or how you wish to define it. This will help unify the approach and provide a theme for the 2022 group exhibition. Your theme should allow for portrait, (urban) landscape and documentary photographic explorations.

Course structure

Within Photocourse 3 there are three creative areas:

•  The Landscape (urban/suburban)
• The Documentary

• The Portrait (including studio)

There are technical / aesthetic focuses in each area:

• Photographic & print quality (in Landscape)
• Camera use and handling (in Documentary)
• Light quality and control (in Portrait)

Naturally, all three technical approaches cross boundaries and apply to each area of photography.
Since you will be developing your own personally-directed projects, you are invited to interpret the technical & aesthetic guidelines fairly individually.

Environmental portrait photography. Photo by John Williams

Course fee and costs

• A deposit of $350.00 is required to confirm your place on the course.
• The total fee is $1450.00 if paid in full by the beginning of the course, or it can be paid in installments by prior arrangement (there will be a  extra charge for this, making the total $1500)
  
• The course fee does not include any materials or processing costs for your photographic projects
• Exhibition printing and presentation will be your own cost, and a contribution to the exhibition opening is expected
• Please see Conditions & payment before booking.
  
  

Urban landscape photo: John Williams