Picture Your Life: Photographing Today for Tomorrow

What story is more consequential than your own life? As we move quickly through daily routines, we rarely pause to recognize their significance.

This course invites you to photograph your life with intention, framing the moments that give it meaning.

By reflecting on inherited photographs and personal archives, we’ll consider what memories endure and why, and clarify what feels essential to document now.

We’ll then create new images using family gatherings, children’s artwork, shared meals, beloved pets, and the spaces that shape our lives.

We’ll also examine how photographs construct meaning through composition, light, and visual structure, applying these principles in guided assignments and feedback.

Students will leave with stronger technical skills in photography, sharpened powers of observation, and a body of images designed to record experiences and shape how they’re remembered for generations to come.

This course is open to students of all skill levels.

Students are welcome to use any camera, including mobile device cameras.