An Online Experience in Writing about Your Photographs

We want to help bring to life a world where people live – and photograph – from a place of wonder, possibility, enchantment, and beauty; grateful for the miracle of life. How you see or interpret any type of visual or written art can give you clues as to what’s important to you and how you connect with the world.

In this 13 weeks on-demand workshop:

TSEliot* You’ll choose photographs to work with throughout the course.

* You’ll equip yourself with tools in the form of visual journaling exercises that are playful and fun. These exercises will engage your curiosity and imagination, and you’ll marvel at how each photograph’s magic reveals itself.

* The exercises will build upon each other and culminate in a selection of 5 core photographs, along with an artist statement. You can share your findings with me,

After the workshop ends:

* You’ll decide which visual journaling practices work best for you and make a plan for continuing the process.

* You’ll have greater confidence in creating and sharing your photographs and in articulating what they mean to you.

* You’ll be more self-aware as your thoughts, emotions and photographic voice become visible in the photographs you create.

I feel a profound shift has occurred. I’m engaging with and embracing the world, but I’m also reflecting on it. In short, Visual Journaling has empowered me: to honour who I am. That’s not a throwaway comment. My confidence has been enhanced: I am taking better photographs and I’m writing about them. I had hoped to learn how to do the latter, but I had not nursed expectations that the former would be true, also.
Sophia Roberts

Participant in the 2015 Session

Transformation is a journey and a return. The path is filled with ruts and mud and pull outs. Not instant. Not sweet and easy. In terms of this course, although I had long ago explored these ideas and thought I had been transformed, I discovered that I had lost touch with much of the light during a time of painful, personal darkness. For me, the primary effect of the assignments in this course was the beginning of the cracking of the ice surrounding my heart and the understanding that I could be transformed should I choose to do the work required.

Dan Meylor

Participant in the 2016 Session

Outline of the Exercises

  • You’ll choose 10 or more images to work with throughout the workshop.
  • You’ll write about your photographs using simple exercises.
  • You’ll identify the concept of your photographs by exploring symbols, metaphors, word associations and visual design.

How the Content Will Be Delivered

  • You’ll explore the role of imagination and creativity in your photography.
  • You’ll discover meaning through storytelling and poetry (haiku).
  • You’ll identify the emotional pull in your photographs through exercises that help you to see with the heart.

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  • You’ll practice using exercises that will uncover themes and patterns in your photography.
  • You’ll determine the five core words that define your photography.
  • You’ll identify 5 core photographs that represent your vision and you’ll write a personal statement.

Note: Sessions 1 and 2 are not pre-requisites.




Learn More about Visual Journaling

What’s Your Line? Lines as Symbols in Photography – An exploration of the meaning of lines and what they mean in my own photography.

Photographs with Soul – tell a story or express an emotion or universal theme.

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