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Introduction This guide will lead students through documentary projects in photography and video that depict their own neighborhoods. Students will be encouraged to think about how images in the media shape perceptions of different neighborhoods and communities. In closely examining Ortiz’s nine-year-long documentary project, We All We Got, students will create their own images of people […]

This guide is a compliment to the Fundamentals of Photography print viewing. This print viewing serves as a basic introduction to the medium of photography and includes images that demonstrate a range of fundamentals and techniques including camera optics, use of vantage point, framing, focus, light, and time of day. This selection also introduces viewers […]

1 BBC. (2021, April 8). America’s gun culture in charts. BBC News. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41488081. Discuss how artists can use a mix of photographic approaches within one series and have students create five different images to tell one story. Images should include the following: an object, a portrait, a landscape, a still life arrangement, and an abstract […]