Practical Photography Course for Teens:
Serial Thinking

From June 5 to 10, the Photography Center for Photography for Teens: Serial Thinking will be held at the Center for Photography. Work on a photo project: from idea to implementation.

The task of the courses and the entire project as a whole is to create some basis for the formation of shooting skills, show the possibilities of photography for creative expression and development, try different techniques, learn how to disassemble the footage. Each practical lesson is preceded by a discussion of the problem and clarification of the effect of a particular technique. Themes are chosen in such a way as to get as far as possible from the conditions that this or that genre dictates, and to concentrate on the way of visualizing sensations and ideas.

“Like any other fine art, photography requires attention and immersion, effort and patience, keenness of feelings, vigilance of the eye and openness of the heart. As Henri Cartier-Bresson wrote, in order to “attach importance” to the world, you need to feel involved in what you see in the viewfinder. And let what you see be amazing and exciting! ”- course teacher Maria Bystrova.

Course 1. Serial thinking. Work on a photo project: from idea to implementation

June 5 - 10

The course is about how to work on the idea of how to translate the idea into a series of photos. From the first lesson, we begin to develop the theme of each participant. In addition to the main theme, the theme of the day is announced, which gives an idea of the photographer’s arsenal, frame structure and features of the series.

Course program:

Day 1: Technique. Types of cameras. The device is a SLR camera. Shooting modes. Lenses.
Day 2: Shot as it is. The visual structure of the frame.
Day 3: Serial Photography. Storyboard. Enumeration. Story.
Day 4-5: Work on the project.
Day 6: Presentation and protection of the project. Summarizing.

Author and teacher: Maria Bystrova

Location: Center for Photography Lumiere brothers (Red October, Bolotnaya emb. 3 p. 1)

Format: six-day intensive course of daily classes for 3 hours each.

Dates: 5 (Tue) - June 10 (Sun) and 12 (Tue) - June 17 (Sun)

Class time: 12.00 - 15.00 with a break

Number of participants in the group: maximum 12 people

Priority age: 12+

With: a camera that allows you to manually set parameters such as shutter speed and aperture; notebook for notes / notebook and pen; flash card to view completed tasks.

About the author and teacher of the course:

Maria Bystrova is a photographer, author and curator of educational programs, a teacher of photography.

Collaborates with the Center for Photography. Lumiere brothers, McGuffin Film School, The Fashion School, coordinator of the Open Laboratory project of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts A.S. Pushkin (short list of the Innovation Prize 2017). Works in the genres of art, fashion, portrait, art reporting.