Visual Authorship: When Concept Meets Form (Oct 19-Dec 21)
Dates: October 19 - December 21, 2025 (no classes on November 2 & November 30)
Meetings: Sundays, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM CST (8 sessions)
Location: Online Zoom Classroom
Cost: $590 (HCP members can receive a 10% discount)
Instructor: Sanne De Wilde
Skill Level: Intermediate-Advanced
To be successful, to be noticed, seen and remembered as a photographer, your personal work needs to stand out. Developing interesting and thought-provoking photographic work requires cracking the code of concept and form: the place where idea, approach, aesthetics and visual language successfully integrate. This course focuses on developing conceptual work while combining three complementary aspects: building knowledge, deepening your practice and advancing your personal project. We will cover methodologies of developing, planning, photographing and uncovering the right output for your work: pitching your work to media outlets, galleries, photo festivals and museums. Through critiques and lectures, we will lay the foundation for a long-lasting practice that is coherent, consistent, genuine and authentic (your visual identity). Experimentation, collaboration and review are core elements of this collective and individual process which offers the framework to create new work that stands out.
Objectives:
Find your visual and conceptual identity
Fine-tune a concept and define the appropriate visual language
Learn techniques and visual styles which can support your story
Understand the key ingredients for thoughtful, conceptual work
Consider potential goals for publications and/or exhibitions
Discuss the next steps for developing your body of work
Develop a long term vision for building your portfolio
Prerequisites:
Students need to have access to software for sorting, sequencing, and viewing images during this course. Some options are: Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Bridge, Capture One or the equivalent. To start a free trial for Adobe, visit Adobe.com.
Course Prep:
Please prepare to introduce yourself, your trajectory, and your personal project(s). Students should include 10-20 images and be able to explain their vision, the "why" and the "how" of their project(s), as well as what they are expecting to achieve in this course. If you would like to continue working on a long term project you already started, please bring a description of the project. If your idea/project needs to be developed from scratch, be prepared to produce work during the course’s time frame.
Dates: October 19 - December 21, 2025 (no classes on November 2 & November 30)
Meetings: Sundays, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM CST (8 sessions)
Location: Online Zoom Classroom
Cost: $590 (HCP members can receive a 10% discount)
Instructor: Sanne De Wilde
Skill Level: Intermediate-Advanced
To be successful, to be noticed, seen and remembered as a photographer, your personal work needs to stand out. Developing interesting and thought-provoking photographic work requires cracking the code of concept and form: the place where idea, approach, aesthetics and visual language successfully integrate. This course focuses on developing conceptual work while combining three complementary aspects: building knowledge, deepening your practice and advancing your personal project. We will cover methodologies of developing, planning, photographing and uncovering the right output for your work: pitching your work to media outlets, galleries, photo festivals and museums. Through critiques and lectures, we will lay the foundation for a long-lasting practice that is coherent, consistent, genuine and authentic (your visual identity). Experimentation, collaboration and review are core elements of this collective and individual process which offers the framework to create new work that stands out.
Objectives:
Find your visual and conceptual identity
Fine-tune a concept and define the appropriate visual language
Learn techniques and visual styles which can support your story
Understand the key ingredients for thoughtful, conceptual work
Consider potential goals for publications and/or exhibitions
Discuss the next steps for developing your body of work
Develop a long term vision for building your portfolio
Prerequisites:
Students need to have access to software for sorting, sequencing, and viewing images during this course. Some options are: Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Bridge, Capture One or the equivalent. To start a free trial for Adobe, visit Adobe.com.
Course Prep:
Please prepare to introduce yourself, your trajectory, and your personal project(s). Students should include 10-20 images and be able to explain their vision, the "why" and the "how" of their project(s), as well as what they are expecting to achieve in this course. If you would like to continue working on a long term project you already started, please bring a description of the project. If your idea/project needs to be developed from scratch, be prepared to produce work during the course’s time frame.
Dates: October 19 - December 21, 2025 (no classes on November 2 & November 30)
Meetings: Sundays, 2:00 PM to 5:00 PM CST (8 sessions)
Location: Online Zoom Classroom
Cost: $590 (HCP members can receive a 10% discount)
Instructor: Sanne De Wilde
Skill Level: Intermediate-Advanced
To be successful, to be noticed, seen and remembered as a photographer, your personal work needs to stand out. Developing interesting and thought-provoking photographic work requires cracking the code of concept and form: the place where idea, approach, aesthetics and visual language successfully integrate. This course focuses on developing conceptual work while combining three complementary aspects: building knowledge, deepening your practice and advancing your personal project. We will cover methodologies of developing, planning, photographing and uncovering the right output for your work: pitching your work to media outlets, galleries, photo festivals and museums. Through critiques and lectures, we will lay the foundation for a long-lasting practice that is coherent, consistent, genuine and authentic (your visual identity). Experimentation, collaboration and review are core elements of this collective and individual process which offers the framework to create new work that stands out.
Objectives:
Find your visual and conceptual identity
Fine-tune a concept and define the appropriate visual language
Learn techniques and visual styles which can support your story
Understand the key ingredients for thoughtful, conceptual work
Consider potential goals for publications and/or exhibitions
Discuss the next steps for developing your body of work
Develop a long term vision for building your portfolio
Prerequisites:
Students need to have access to software for sorting, sequencing, and viewing images during this course. Some options are: Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Bridge, Capture One or the equivalent. To start a free trial for Adobe, visit Adobe.com.
Course Prep:
Please prepare to introduce yourself, your trajectory, and your personal project(s). Students should include 10-20 images and be able to explain their vision, the "why" and the "how" of their project(s), as well as what they are expecting to achieve in this course. If you would like to continue working on a long term project you already started, please bring a description of the project. If your idea/project needs to be developed from scratch, be prepared to produce work during the course’s time frame.
Image 1: Sanne De Wilde, from the series The Island of the Colorblind
Images 2-4: Sanne De WIlde & Benedicte Kurzen, from the series Land of Ibeji
