A Photo Teacher |

N O I S E    Nº1

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Assignment

Working either individually or collaboratively, visually explore the times we live in. It is essential that either individually or as collaborative team, your idea(s) reflect a sense of considered thought, active visual exploration about your interpretations of the real world and is articulated with an individual’s vision and voice that can be brought together to reveal a more complex vision and dialog between the photographs.

Thinking about your conceptual concerns and what to photograph, I would propose you gravitate towards what your interests and curiosities are within the social landscape of the world we live in. How would you approach those concerns photographically to reveal what they would look like as a series of photographs? In addition to their visual engagement, what do you want the photographs to reveal, suggest or evoke, intellectually and/or emotionally, in relationship to these ideas and perceptions? Consider how your use of the camera, photographic aesthetics, materials and processes, as well as how your technical execution will be utilized in making photographs that begin to suggest and inform these curiosities and ideas.

Explore the possibilities of utilizing various cameras and/or materials (analog and digital, black & white or color), as well as presentation strategies (multiple-image and/or image scale) to inform your curiosities and ideas. In shooting your images, focus your energies on creating visually engaging compositions as suggested by your use of the photographic frame, point of view, details, moments of exposure, light and handling of materials.

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Requirements

This is a two-part assignment which will include an initial critique for feedback in preparation of the Final Project.

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Critique

For the critique (see Calendar for Due Date), each individual photographer or as a team will complete the following:

Maquette of magazine layouts, including front and back covers as well as interior page layouts.  The maquettes can be either hand-made or made online with Issuu – Online Interactive Publishing.  Preparation of the maquette provides for the opportunity to receive valuable input regarding design concepts, photographs and page layouts prior to going to publication.

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Final Project

Either individually or as a collaborative team, design and produce a photographic magazine, using MagCloud.  The printed magazine is due at the time of the Final Project Presentation as assigned on the course calendar.

Click on MagCloud Page Layouts for Photoshop templates.

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Whether you’re working individually or collaboratively, each photographer is required to contribute a minimum of 10 photographs to the magazine.  The magazine is required to include the following:

• Title
• Name of Photographer(s)
• minimum of 10 photographs
• Introductory and/or afterward text

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