Miranda Gatewood, professor of photograph at Farmingdale College leads a discussion while screen sharing our photos. Miranda offers her insights and knowledge to honor each image and each photographer wherever they are in their process (Beginners and Professionals alike!).
- To participate please register for each program below online, by phone, or in-person at the Library.
- For each assignment email 3 of your new photos or photos found in your archive of images.
- You may participate without following the theme. You’re always welcome to share your work.
*Email your images no later than the Sunday before class.
* IMPORTANT – Email 3 of your selected images/jpgs to both artfornow@northshorepubliclibrary.org and Dreameventpix@gmail.com
Photo Safari Assignment Series – Trees, Adults ***Virtual***
Monday, February 10, 7:00 -8:00 PM
Few subjects are as majestic and, at the same time, as common as trees. They vie with the grandeur of our own architecture, yet they are the skyscrapers and mass dwellings of nature. Let your camera pay tribute to these wondrous creations.
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Photo Safari Assignment Series – What’s Inside?, Adults **Virtual**
Monday, March 3, 7:00-8:00 PM
Photography dutifully documents everything so realistically and accurately, but can the camera reveal human emotion like feelings of sadness, poignancy, terror, mirth, joy? Or, can we only use symbols to convey feeling like tears to show sadness? What would your way of showing emotion with the camera be?
Photo Safari Assignment Series – Conceptual Art Photography, Adults **Virtual**
Monday, March 17, 7:00-8:00 PM
So many movements in art – from Dada to meta realism and absurdism – concerned themselves with the surprising, the uncanny, the surreal. Photography , as well, became a suitable medium for conceptualism. Let’s explore the painter Salvatore Dali as photographed by Philippe Halsman in collaboration int heir stunning of unreality. What would your images look like if you rebelled against representationalism?