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Take A Class To Learn How To Take Selfies
Need a little work on your selfies? You're not the only one. You can now enroll in a selfie class. Seriously, it's 2015 and this is a real class.
London's City Lit college is offering a course on Selfies called "The art of self portraiture". Here's the official description on the course:
What is the course about?
The course is a theory/practice introduction to photographic self-portraiture; it is conceived for students to improve their critical understanding of the photographic self-portrait, as well as a platform to develop ideas towards the creation of a coherent body of work.
What will we cover?
- Appreciation and critique of visual work from a variety of practitioners
- Recurrent ideas and concepts that surrounds self portraiture
- Brief enquiry into the notions of identity, selfhood and memory
- Group discussions (informal crits) and project development
- Evaluation of students’ previous photography in relation to the topic
- Final critique of work produced during the course.
What will I achieve?
- Explain ideas of space, place and surrounding issues
- Use light and significant detail in your work to good effect
- Take steps to move forward by using reference points from the course
- Develop new ideas to make your photography more relevant to your aims
- Produce a coherent piece of photographic work surrounding a particular theme
- Approach technical problems with more confidence.
The course costs around $202 American dollars and begins in March, and runs through April. The course is 4 sessions over 4 weeks. Pretty interesting right?
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