Project Development - Telling A Story Through A Series
with
Manuela Thames
How do you tell a story through a photographic series? How do you use the power of images to change or challenge the perspective of both the photographer and the viewer?
In this five-week workshop, Manuela Thames invites you to explore a topic of your choice that you feel passionate about.
She will teach you how to plan, research, and slowly build a cohesive photo series.
What are the advantages of creating a series versus single images? What are the challenges of this process and how can we stay focused and committed to it?
Each student will begin with an artistic investigation and analysis of what it is that you want to express through your photography and what story you would like to tell. From then on, you will create a roadmap for the project that will give you direction for your photoshoots.
Manuela will discuss and teach you about the importance of cohesion and how to create it and what exactly you should be paying attention to. She will also guide you through some writing exercises and give you steps and helpful tips on how to write an artist statement.
Join Manuela for this four-week workshop starting October 23 and receive the foundation and direction you need to build a successful fine art series.
Zoom meet up will be once a week. Dates and time TBD.
REGISTER NOW FOR THIS COURSE
US$500.00
All-Inclusive Participation
Get detailed instructor feedback and support while enjoying interacting with like-minded creatives through our online forum during the course.
Share your work, and enjoy the challenges and instructor-led discussions in our online classroom which is open 24/7. Weekly Zoom Meetings!!
US$375.00
Observation Student
Get access to our online classroom to follow along with conversations and Instructor critiques of the All-Inclusive assignments. Observation seat students do not receive instructor feedback and do not participate in Instructor-led discussions. They
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MEET YOUR INSTRUCTOR
Manuela Thames is a photographic artist based in Saint Paul, Minnesota where she lives with her husband and two children. Born and raised in Germany, she moved to the US in 2004 after marrying her American husband. Shortly thereafter she began her photography journey after two life changing events happened within one year, the birth of her first son and the death of her brother.
Largely self-taught, Manuela uses various photographic techniques to explore themes around loss and grief, her personal experience with generational trauma, as well as the notions of belonging, connection and what it means to be human. Within that she continues to explore human ways of coping, the strength that evolves out of suffering and our common desire for healing and journey towards wholeness. Much of her work consists of black and white, conceptual self-portraits.
Manuela’s photography has been described as contemplative, evocative, dark, and cinematic and has been widely exhibited nationally as well as internationally. Her “Trauma” series won 1st place conceptual series of the year in the Monovisions Award in 2019, and in the same year she won the 13th Julia Margaret Cameron Award in the Self-Portrait Category. In addition, her work has been published online and in print in such places as Black and White Magazine, Sun Magazine, Dohdo Magazine and Shots Magazine.
