Who is teaching photography?

[Michael Slade]

Ray and I started a side-topic in the inkjet print exchange thread...this seemed like a good time to peel it off into it's own thread.

Ray asked what I was teaching...here's the short and long of it.

Right now I am a graduate student at Utah State University...returning to school after a 12 year commercial career.

I have taught as adjunct at two seperate universities over the past year. One class was a basic photography class and we covered both digital and traditional wet-darkroom. It was an interesting chance to blend the two types of image making, and I felt very happy at the success my students had.

I also taught an advanced studio lighting class covering strobe systems, 4x5 camera, digital capture and post-production. That class was also very rewarding and I felt the students gained a lot. Of course it goes without saying that the instructor usually learns more than the students.

At Utah State where I am enrolled as a graduate student, I was the teaching assistant last semester for a digital photography class. I ended up teaching most of it after all. This semester I'm teaching a basic photography class and it is strictly wet-darkroom and we're shooting 35mm cameras and B&W film.

I had to buy a 35mm film camera to be able to teach the class and show examples. Found a very nice Nikon F (that's shown in my avatar...). It's neat to have a film camera that I'll actually use again. It's been a while...I've shot mainly (98%) digital since '99.

I'll graduate in the spring of '08 and looking for a full-time teaching gig in a university setting.

I continue to shoot the occasional commercial or editorial job that comes around, but I've been too busy with school and my thesis project to look for much freelance work.

[Kirk Gittings]

I teach workshops, right now just at the View Camera Workshops, and I am faculty at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. In the past I have also taught at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops and the University of New Mexico amongst others.

[Ted Harris]

I teach workshops at the View Camera Workshops and on a continuing basis as part of the Fine Focus Workshops (www.finefocusworkshops.com) and also the Real World Scanning and Digital Workflow workshops mentioned elsewhere on this site.

[ann]

i teach a variety of classes at the Spruill Art Center. Mostly traditional but some digital as well.

[Ray Heath]

g'day all

as i mentioned earlier i teach basic photography in adult education classes as well as mentoring beginners in my darkroom, i am also a mature age student at university, half way through a double degree course for B Teach/B Fine Art

[Greg Davis]

I teach Intro to Photo at the New World School of the Arts in Miami, FL. I am currently seeking a faculty position anywhere else.

[keithwms]

I have been teaching for several years, but this semester is the first when I will be teaching photography. I kinda got roped into it and pledged to do a traditional b&w class. And I thought nobody would sign up to take it... well, within 3 minutes of the start of registration, the class was full and overflowing.

Apparently, young students love traditional b&w. I'll do my best.

I have dusted off a bunch of field and view cameras, we'll be using only b&w sheet film. Students will be learning everything from exposure through development and printing with enlargers, and then they'll put on a print show at the end of the semester.

[Christopher Walrath]

While I have not taught in a formal classroom setting or held what might be commonly referred to as a workshop, I have taught over a dozen burgeoning photographers in a one on one setting. Just going over basics, letting them ask questions, give them some ideas give them a about a month to ponder and shoot and accumulate prints/files, praise and critique, lather, rinse and repeat. I love being able to feel free to give back to the thing that I love so much and to also have found those that are willing and able to learn from a (not so) old film photographer is truly a blessing.

[Ted Harris]

An update, Kirk is ow teaching the Scanning and Digital Workflow Workshops with me. April at Midwest Photo Exchange (likely at Jainco Tech s well), June at foto3 in Ft. Collins and working on scheduling in Los Angeles.

[darr]

I teach Intro to Photo at the New World School of the Arts in Miami, FL. I am currently seeking a faculty position anywhere else.

Hi Greg,

I taught algebra and photoshop at New World a few years back part-time as field work for FIU. Carmen Ledesma was a friend of mine from New World. I have since moved to Tallahassee. I have lost Carmen's email address and wish I still had it for catch-up time. If you see her, tell her Darr sends her best. I'd appreciate it. Good for you teaching at New World. Is it still the #1 high school of the arts?

Kind Regards,
Darr