Start of Second Semester

First semester ended with the beginning students showing some stellar portfolios. Students should feel incredibly proud of the work they did. In the advanced class, the final projects that everybody did blew me away! Some really interesting, beautiful, challenging pieces came out. I think the final show in May is going to be one of the best. This is an extremely talented, hard working group.
In the beginning classes we are starting our portraiture unit. I can't wait to see what everyone does with this. I have posted some of the different types of portraiture I want students to explore. We just got done watching a film on the life and work of Annie Leibowitz for inspiration. Below are some other portraits by Mary Ellen Mark, Arnold Newman, and a contemporary photographer from the northwest-Corey Arnold.



In the Advanced Photo class, we are going to start making books. We will start out making concertina books based on a color.
We will be checking out online bookmaking sites such as Blurb and also learning how to do some different types of artists books.