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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

I teach platinum/palladium, gum over platinum and wet plate collodion workshops for groups such as The Ansel Adams Workshops, The Photographer's Formulary, Foto3, etc. For more info click here.

I mean here (http://www.kerik.com/wrkshps.htm).:)

I have taught Colour and Black& White workshops,,
But I find that teaching these classes non rewarding personally.. I do though like bringing* Teachers *to our lab to do courses and enjoy being behind the scenes. I have watched Sandy King, Les Mclean, Tim Rudman, MAS and Paula Chamlee teach as well as a host of others here and I conclude that it takes a certain amount of patience with students that I lack.
I am going to work in the backgrounds with Ted Harris, Les, Joe Cornish and others in a way that may be easier for me than being the leader.

My best teacher at College was eventually fired , and replaced by robots that followed the administrations policys.
I still remember first year* I was absolutey useless* and close to being booted out. He made a point of praising me in front of my peers and the big dickhead that wanted to throw me out. It was the encouragement I needed and will never forget his teachings.

I have to share a funny MF fisheye picture with you. This is my current "traditional b&w photography" class. I showed them how to use polaroid 665 to get a big negative quickly. The bucket in front is the clearing solution. it was a long exposure and they had to hold still for 8 sec at ISO 20 but they really liked the demo.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c76/keithwms/class_665001_sm.jpg

I am the ghosted figure on the right, I had to dart out of the frame to close the shutter because this was with an old rb67 with no B mode.

No student of mine will ever become a follower robot, not if I can help it.

I like that, Keith. Both the image and the sentiment.

I have taught Colour and Black& White workshops,,
But I find that teaching these classes non rewarding personally.. I do though like bringing* Teachers *to our lab to do courses and enjoy being behind the scenes. I have watched Sandy King, Les Mclean, Tim Rudman, MAS and Paula Chamlee teach as well as a host of others here and I conclude that it takes a certain amount of patience with students that I lack.
I am going to work in the backgrounds with Ted Harris, Les, Joe Cornish and others in a way that may be easier for me than being the leader.


Bob,

I would have to agree with you, I have taught and prepared training in IT related stuff and I don't mind public speaking and feel that I have patience when teaching but much prefer a support role.

Having experienced Les Mclean "in action", he certainly has something special that makes it not only education and interesting, but downright fun.

I've found that some people might have the knowledge but just cannot impart it, sometimes because the can't speak plain English (insert other languages here) and make a presentation very dry because they are just too obsessed with the technicalities.

David


David

I teach here in Australia, mainly large format and individual tuition. Teaching is an art, and needs to be practiced. I have spent the last 15 years training teachers to do their jobs better.... I love teaching photography as it is such a divergent subject from what I usually teach.. I also regularly attend workshops as a student to remind myself of what it is like to be a student.

Regards,

Len

Good point about attending workshops to remind one of being a student. I just finished a Dan Margulis workshop and was blown away with his knowlege, I am taking it again later this month.
Next Fri I am taking a one on one day work shop with an adobe trainer to help me understand digital workflow better.
A good teacher is hard to find.



I teach here in Australia, mainly large format and individual tuition. Teaching is an art, and needs to be practiced. I have spent the last 15 years training teachers to do their jobs better.... I love teaching photography as it is such a divergent subject from what I usually teach.. I also regularly attend workshops as a student to remind myself of what it is like to be a student.

Regards,

Len

Have done a couple of local Intro to Large Format workshops, do a number of demos for my University's Alt Process class, and am teaching Black & White Photo 1 this semester. I really love the interaction with the students and watching their eyes light up when they understand a concept.

Coming to the "end" of a long career as photo teacher, I'm still teaching a couple of basic classes, on the wet side. I suspect I'll be turning over the little power I still have (can't wait for that!) to someone else soon, but I intend to maintain a presence in the lab as just one of the inhabitants. I'm looking forward to that; it seems to me that it is a great step in the development of a small community college program, as well as more satisfying personally. There's a lot of student enthusiasm, and I'd miss being there. So why not stay?

While I have enjoyed great support from my faculty and the current administration, I'm very concerned about the direction that education, at least here in the US, is taking. The comments above regarding robots are right on the mark.

I do my best to counteract the trend by encouraging critical thought (which, although explicitly stated as a goal in the mission of the college, is in fact feared and mildly discouraged). I try to help the students see themselves within the context of an overarching institutional structure (right up to the state and beyond) that more and more seems to construe the function of education as practical job training (a service to the needs of industry) rather than to provide opportunities and support for the development of the whole person. I believe that working with the students in a context which does not include the function of expressing fateful judgments in the form of grades will provide an opportunity to participate in a useful way, as well as get some work done, which, as you others who teach know, is not always easy to do.