Photo:Jim Balderston

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY

Street Photography is designed to teach students how to capture the essence of the urban landscape in a personalized and generally edgy fashion. Comprising largely of field trips, the course tackles equipment issues, the ethics and practicalities of photographing street life, and when and where to best break photographic rules. Instructor: Jim Balderston jimbalderston.com “There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative-the moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever” -Henri Cartier Bresson From: The Decisive Moment 1952

WEEK BY WEEK SESSIONAL OUTLINE 1 Introductions/Lecture

Slide show- Photographs Made On The Street: a survey of contemporary street photography

2 Shoot: Theatre of Everyday Life/Robson Street/Street Portraiture.

3 Shoot: practice session using street photography techniques. Location: Granville Island

4 Review of images from 2&3 Lecture: getting to know your lab

5 Field trip: The Lab (Friday evening)

6 Shoot: Time and Place/Commercial Drive The ‘Decisive Moment’

7 Review of images from week 6 Review work in progress for term project.

8 Shoot: Stanley Park Seawall and Prospect Point/People at Play 9 Shoot: Urban Utopia –Urban Remains /Gastown

10 Review of images from 8&9

11 Shoot: Street Photography/ Self Portrait

12 Final Review. Presentation of term assignments.