Gregory Halpern: Documentary Sur/Realism

Overview

Featuring a curriculum of 16 lessons, this class unpacks his approach to portraiture, the power of editing and sequencing in building photographic narratives, and shares insights into how his celebrated projects and photobooks – including A, ZZYZX and Omaha Sketchbook – were created. Follow Halpern as he creates new work in and around his native Buffalo, NY, focusing on his attempts to create compelling portraits of strangers met via Craigslist and encountered along the way. Halpern shares his end-to-end process, from pressing the shutter and creating contact sheets to his approach to editing and sequencing, giving his honest reflections on the successes and the failures. This class offers a host of valuable advice that can be applied to your photographic practice, from thought-provoking discussions on the genre of documentary photography, to playful exercises on the relationships between images when presented in a sequence.

Genres: Documentary

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