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ONLINE: Introduction to Digital Photography
Learn how to effectively and creatively use your digital camera and leave the auto button behind! You’ll learn the fundaments of photography and image capture, including aperture, shutter speed, ISO, white balance, and composition. We'll also cover tips and tricks like choosing the right lens for your image. Weekly assignments, critiques and discussions will help you troubleshoot technique, explore new ideas and develop your own creative eye.
Special Notes
- Students should have a digital camera with manual adjustment capacities and camera manual.
Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible.
This class is held online through Zoom; learn more about how online classes work here
This instructor speaks Spanish, but class is held in English.
About the Instructor
Amarise Deán Santo
Amarise Deán Santo is a photo based artist and builder. He utilizes photography to observe andallow the land to become tangible. The results are images that harness history, ancestry, altars and still lifes that are alive. The intuitive aspect is referential directly to a gentle and deeply personal connection to passed down knowledge of their elders from the island, Puerto Rico. Each object breathes together. Upon inspection and study, each detail narrates a space that invites the body; trans, queer, and diasporic, to enter. These images document survival while serving as a means to build new worlds the body can be fully liberated in. Piecing together life cycles that directly come from the land their family derives from, becomes a simultaneous practice of honoring their 2spirit body which has existed and will for futures to come.
Deán received their BFA in Photography and Film from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2018. They are based in Flushing, Queens, New York and Richmond, Virginia. They have been published in The New Yorker, Aperture Magazine, Nueva Luz, and has shown at El Museo del Barrio, The Museum of New York, and The Center.
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