Storytelling in Photography

Ioana Moldovan and Cornel Lazia will teach you how to tell a story using multiple photographs, or how to tell a story with a single photograph. Or what story a photograph can tell you. The first part of the course is dedicated to documentary photography and includes theory, a photo outing, and then the creation of a series with Ioana’s guidance. The second part of the course focuses on photographic storytelling regardless of genre, with text associations, various forms of presentation, characters such as time or space, etc.

What you will learn:

• basic notions of documentary photography;

• composition basics;

• how to choose a concept for a photo story;

• basics of editing and sequencing;

• the basic structure of a narrative and the differences between literary and visual media;

• how to use lighting, composition, optics, and mise-en-scène for the final narrative construction;

• how to use time as a means of expression in photography – methods of associating and sequencing images.

  
  

What you will not learn:

• how to use your camera – if you want to learn how to photograph, take a look at the Photography Technique course.

  
  

About the instructors:

Cornel Lazia holds a PhD in cinema and media, is an artist exhibited nationally and internationally, and a photographer with over 20 years of commercial experience—fashion, advertising, album covers, corporate work, etc.

Ioana Moldovan is an award-winning photojournalist published in some of the world’s largest newspapers and magazines, such as The New York Times, Huffington Post, BBC, Der Spiegel, ESPN, and others.

The fee can be paid in full or in equal monthly installments. To secure your place in the course, payment of the first installment in advance, online, is required. The remaining payments will be made by invoice on the 1st of each month.

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