“A Camera is a Tool for Learning How to See Without a Camera” Dorothea Lange
COURSE DESCRIPTION This course’s aim is to provide the student with knowledge how to understand her or his surroundings. It is crucial for the photographer and image artist to be aware of and understanding what elements to use as material for image making. As important it is to understand one’s own images. What are they showing? Are the image showing what it is I am thinking? This is crucial knowledge and methods developing thoughts as well as understanding image making and an emerged result. It will help the student to be able to verbalise thoughts and image interpretation to be able to describe her or his work, which is of utmost importance for portfolio making, work descriptions and work statements.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES - Learning to see what you are looking at.- Learning to understand your images.- Learning about image interpretation, through image analysis.
LEARNING OUTCOME LecturesIntroduction of the basics of image interpretation and image analysis. Workshops about understanding imageComparing reality with images. The student will learn how to choose and develop an image project and apply image interpretation and image analysis on own project as well as other students’ projects. Each student will log her or his entire process as blog. This will form a project journal will be a tool to see progress and project development.