What you'll learn

Develop your visual understanding and how to interpret a photograph

Compose and capture a photograph using creative compositional skills

Start your personal photographic portfolio by connecting to our beautiful natural world.

Explore the history of photography and it's magic.

Sheree will share her photographic background and intro to her art practice

Requirements

Open to all abilities

Access to a smart phone camera, DSLR Camera, digital compact camera, 35mm film camera

If you have always wanted to be creative but don't know where to start this is the course for you.

Description

This course will ignite your passion for the artist inside of you. Come on a journey that will take you out of the digital world and tech over load. To make time to record the world around you through the lens of a camera. Learn skills that will empower you to start seeing the world around you through your unique artistic vision. Make time to capture your photographic portfolio who knows where it will take you.Here's some info about me, Sheree MurphyBorn in Wales, UK. My artistic career began the day I picked up a camera, it taught me not to be afraid, to stand up for myself and be a positive force for change.In 2003 I graduated with a BA (Hons) in Photography in the Arts and in 2007 I completed a Post Graduate in Further and Higher Education at The University of Wales, Trinity St Davids, UK.Since then I have taught photography and many creative subjects from social health care settings, to schools, colleges and arts organisations. Teaching is very important to me, I believe everybody is creative and I am passionate about sharing my knowledge and experience with people to discover the artist inside of them.I have exhibited National and Internationally, including Ffotogallery, National Development Agency for Photography, Wales, Atlantis Gallery, Brick Lane, London and Parallax AF New York, with collectors in UK and New York and in October 2023 I shall be representing the UK at The Florence Biennale, Italy.About my art practiceThe materials I use are taken from popular culture and history. I am fascinated by the pioneers of society whether that is the icons from history or the individual with the loudest voice standing up for the person dismissed, not cared for, forgotten or just a number. My work has developed through creative collaborations often with people on the edges of society, these experiences are the fabric to my work. I am now based in Mallorca, since moving here my work has been largely impacted by the street artists and its narratives of social commentary.

Overview

Section 1: Develop your visual knowledge and how to read a photograph

Lecture 1 Introduction

Section 2: Develop your visual knowledge and learn how to read a photograph.

Lecture 2 Study a photograph and unpick its message, compositional technique and style

Lecture 3 Visual discourse exercise

Section 3: Learn artistic compositional skills to capture your photographic signature

Lecture 4 Capture your artistic vision using simple photographic compositional principles

Lecture 5 Step into the Natural world to start your photographic portfolio exercise

Section 4: Go back in time and have a peek into the history of photography

Lecture 6 Discover how photography impacted painting and what we can learn from it

Section 5: Intro to the world of Sheree's Artistic photographic practice

Lecture 7 Sheree will share the beginning of her photographic practice

For learners who have a curiosity about how they can discover their creative skills,A break from tech over load and reconnect to your artistic vision,Start your personal photographic portfolio who knows where it may lead you?