Photography – A Self-Exploration Process We are living in a digital
era. The social media became a powerful channel of communication.
Today everybody has a cell phone, and everyone can take pictures.
However, not everyone is a photographer; to be a photographer requires
a training eye, technique, and sensibility. Most of all, each picture
we take reveals who we are and how we look at the world. For this
3-week photography workshop , we will use cell phones as our
instrument to understand ourselves and to increase our skills. Why: to
understand how the language of photography and the art elements impact
our perceptions in life photography helps us to expand our
perspectives and to create new possibilities in life as we look at the
world through a different lens the act of taking pictures deepens our
observation and perception the pictures we take help us to understand
our personal dynamics, relationships, and our responses or reactions
to different life situations This workshop is targeted towards those
who wish to: increase your photographic skills understand and explore
different angles in observing and perceiving a situation in life
challenge oneself in reflecting about personal dynamics and how it
impacts someone’s life and relationships deepen critical thinking
Attendees can expect to: learn concepts of photography explore the
relationship between the photos we take and who we are deepen and to
expand our capacity to observe while being in the moment capture some
photographs and to review the images explore the possibilities that
cell phones offer in order to increase the quality of the photos Note:
Marise Zimmermann, ATR-BC is an artist-photographer and an art
therapist. She graduated in art therapy from The School of the Art
Institute of Chicago, IL. She has extensive experience in art therapy,
and she was the supervisor of the Expressive Arts Therapy Department
at the John Muir Behavioral Health Center for 13 years. She has
exhibited her artwork in the US, Brazil, and Mexico. Her photograph
“Shadows” was the picture of the week at National Geographic Your
Shot on the week of April 12, 2019. Her work focuses on developing new
ways to look at ourselves and in creating new possibilities,
strategies, and perspectives in order to reframe our internal dialogue
and to empower ourselves.
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