Creative Workshop Photo - JJB179

• Title: Creative Workshop Photo
• Czech title: Tvůrčí dílny foto
• Guaranteed by: Department of Journalism (23-KZ)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2021
• Semester: winter
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: winter s.:
• Hours per week, examination: winter s.:1/1, C [HT]
• Capacity: unknown / unknown (12)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: not taught
• Language: English, Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan

Annotation

Last update: doc. Mgr. MgA. Filip Láb, Ph.D. (01.10.2020)

Course Creative Workshop Photo keeps developing abilities and knowledge in photojournalism and advanced visual storytelling, emphasizing long-term work in the style of "slow journalism". Students work the whole semester on a single documentary-style topic. Students combine their skills of photojournalists and those of photo-editor, creating large visual stories using a series of images. Students will be improving their skills in visual storytelling, editing. The course requires an active interest in visual journalism and the ability of creative work. Creative Workshop Photo is for intermediate or advanced photographers.

Student sign-in to Moodle course pages here:

https://dl2.cuni.cz/enrol/index.php?id=3119

Aim of the course

Last update: doc. Mgr. MgA. Filip Láb, Ph.D. (30.10.2019)

The output of the course is a series of documentary photographs on a specific topic. Outputs will be published online on faculty web pages. The aim of the course is improving the visual literacy of students, as well as the practical skills of the photographer and photo editor. 

Literature

Last update: doc. Mgr. MgA. Filip Láb, Ph.D. (30.10.2019)

FREEDMAN, M.: Encyclopedia of Practical Photography, Tiger Books int. London, 1993.

HEDGECOE, J. : The Book of Photography, DK Adult, 2005.

JOHANSSON, T. D.: The New Image: On the Temporarility of Photographic Representation after Digitalization, COSIGN, 2002

KOBRE, K. Photojournalism The Professionals' Approach: 3nd Edition. Focal Press, 1991.Manovich, L.: The Languafe Of New Media, The MIT Press, 2001

MITCHELL, W. Picture theory: essays on verbal and visual representation. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1994.

PATTERSON, F. Photography and the art of seeing. Toronto : Key Porter Books, c1989.

RITCHIN, Fred. Bending the frame: photojournalism, documentary, and the citizen. 1st ed. New York: Aperture, 2010.

WELLS, Liz. Photography: A Critical Introduction, Routledge, 2004

WRIGHT, T. The photography handbook.London, New York : Routledge, 2004

ZUROMSKIS, Catherine. Snapshot photography: The lives of images. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2013, 358 s. ISBN 978-0-262-01929-3.

 

http://www.journaliststoolbox.org/category/photojournalism/

 

David Guttenfelder

https://www.instagram.com/dguttenfelder/

Ben Lowy

https://www.instagram.com/benlowy/

Ed Kashi

https://www.instagram.com/edkashi/

Natalie Naccache

https://www.instagram.com/natnacphotos/

Ron Haviv

https://www.instagram.com/ronhaviv_vii/

Teaching methods

Last update: doc. Mgr. MgA. Filip Láb, Ph.D. (30.10.2019)

Seminar / workshop, shooting out of the time frame of the class, discussions. 

Requirements to the exam

Last update: doc. Mgr. MgA. Filip Láb, Ph.D. (13.09.2020)

Activity during discussions (25 points), publishing all tasks required (25 points), the final presentation of tasks (50 points). At least 75 points are required for finishing the course. 

 

Syllabus

Last update: doc. Mgr. MgA. Filip Láb, Ph.D. (01.10.2020)

0. Introduction

1. Street photography
2. Street portrait of strangers
3. Night photography
4. Self-portrait 
5. Creative long-exposure /zachycení pohybu
6. Close-up photo
7. Shadows
8. Light / reflection
9. Black and white vs color 
10. Final presentation

Registration requirements

Last update: doc. Mgr. MgA. Filip Láb, Ph.D. (30.10.2019)

Students must have advanced photographic, editing and postproduction skills, present examples of their photojournalistic works at the first class, have their own camera - DSLR.