Masterclasses
Poetry of Place
HCP is thrilled to offer an in-person masterclass with award-winning professional fine art and commercial photographer Susan Burnstine. This weekend-long workshop will focus on learning the skills to uncover and identify students’ unique interpretations and communicate a deeper meaning of place, exploring the many ways in which self and place can interact.
© Susan Burnstine
Land Matters: Photography, Landscape, Environment.
HCP is excited to offer an extended online masterclass with internationally renowned writer, curator, and educator Liz Wells. This course will focus on environmental images, issues and interventions. We shall critically reflect on ways in which photographers have deployed photography and associated media to question, investigate and respond to places and scenarios, ideas and issues.
Image: Land Matters (2011), Book Cover
David Hilliard | Modes, Motives & Motifs: Why We Make Photographs
The Houston Center of Photography is excited to offer a masterclass with David Hilliard in which he will explore the motivations and concepts behind the subjects photographers choose, the technical modes used to realize those choices and finally, the visual motifs utilized to shape and convey those ideas.
Registration is closed.
© David Hilliard
Dana Scruggs | Redefining the Editorial Portrait
The Houston Center of Photography is excited to offer a masterclass with Dana Scruggs in which she will demonstrate how she applied a unique aesthetic to her editorial work. Students will learn how to expand their portrait capabilities and make their work more dynamic, cohesive, and noticeable to editors.
Registration is closed.
© Dana Scruggs
Land Matters: Photography, Landscape, Environment.
The Houston Center of Photography is excited to offer an online masterclass with Liz Wells that will focus on environmental images, issues and interventions. We shall critically reflect on ways in which photographers have deployed photography and associated media to question, investigate and respond to places and scenarios, ideas and issues.
Registration is closed.
Image: Land Matters (2011), Book Cover
Dina Litovsky | Lighting, Intention, and Style
The Houston Center of Photography is excited to offer a masterclass with Dina Litosvky that will focus on the many creative uses of light on location, in both editorial and personal work. Dina Litovsky will go over how to use light in documentary projects, portraiture, and remote photography. Students will learn the invaluable skill of planning out a lighting setup in advance as well as constructing one on the spot using whatever sources are available.
Registration is closed.
© Dina Litovsky
Elinor Carucci | Getting Personal: A Body of Work
The Houston Center of Photography is excited to offer a weekend-long masterclass with Elinor Carucci focused on developing and defining each participant’s personal vision and direction for a series they might want to embark on or have been working on. Carucci will present her world-renowned editorial and artistic work in-depth and provide students with invaluable practical information about photography best practices.
Registration is closed.
© Elinor Carucci
Yael Martínez / Magnum Photos | On Communities
The Houston Center of Photography and Magnum Photos are delighted to offer photographers living in Houston and its proximity 10 full scholarships for a special masterclass with Magnum photographer Yael Martínez.
© Yael Martínez / Magnum Photos