Photography: Environment, Culture & Image

3 units

The medium of photography offers multiple ways to engage with critical social, political and environmental issues. Throughout this course, a wide range of photographic tools and modes of production will be explored, including digital and film-based materials and a variety of printing techniques. The course will also consider the integration of alternative methods of lens-based communication and working to construct images within relevant contexts of meaning. Through presentations and readings, students will be introduced to a range of contemporary artists working with essential topics such as climate change, ecological sustainability, energy production and extraction, and the human body and technology. Students will work to build a final and self-directed project identified through their ongoing research and image production.