Advanced photography
Take your photography to the next level
- Discover a variety of styles and techniques used by master photographers
- Get in touch with your artistic slide: and learn how to put it into practice
- Learn what’s trending in contemporary photography
Schedule and pricing
- Each photo course is comprised of five two-hour sessions
- Flexible schedule: daytime or evenings week days or weekend
- Schedule your classes directly with Oliver: oliver.ohanlon@me.com
- Valid 12 months
- CHF 800.-
Overview
This advanced course focuses on refining your skills, enhancing your personal style, and elevating your artistic expression. These sessions cover not only higher theory and technique, but also the history of photography, the impact and relevance of documentary and contemporary photography trends, and the various forms of fine art photography. Participants must have a good command of their cameras, or have completed the intermediary course. The course includes presentations to expose you to a range of styles and topics with analysis of aesthetics and practical shooting information. You’ll learn how to be consistent in your approach and to develop your own range of photographic languages. Homework is assigned, your photographs are reviewed in class in the following session, with discussion and feedback.
What you will learn
- Contemporary trends: digital media, self-marketing, street photography, fine art photography, reportage, commercial photography, stylistic trends
- Master photographers: Andreas Gursky, Gregory Crewsden, William Klein, James Natchwey, Paolo Pelligrin, Max Pinckers, Jacob Sobol, Martin Parr, William Eggleston, Cindy Sherman, Annie Liebovitz, Mario Testino, Joel Meyerowitz, Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton, Oliviero Toscani
- Aesthetic theory: beauty, ugliness, society, art, spiritualisation and religion, expression, representation
- Visual characteristics: flash, saturation, contrast, exposure, focal length, texture, movement, blur, composition and perspective
- Alternative photographic mediums: analogue, pinhole, holga, polaroid, medium and large format, mixed-media, non-silver processes
- Photography within historical and contemporary art movements: pictorialism, dada, surrealism, pop art, russian constructivism, snapshot aesthetic, constructed realities
Program
- Class 1: contemporary trends
- Class 2: master photographers
- Class 3: aesthetic theory and visual characteristics
- Class 4: alternative photographic mediums
- Class 5: photography within historical and contemporary art movements
- Homework: each week you put into practice the class topics with specific homework assignments, your work is reviewed each week with specific technical artistic feedback
Address
- Oliver O’Hanlon Photography
- 88 Rue de Saint-Jean, 1201 Geneva
- Public transport: bus 7 stop Ormeaux tram 15 stop Mercier
- Walking: 4 minutes from Manor department store or 6 minutes from Cornavin railway station
Gift voucher
- To offer this course as a present you can purchase a gift voucher with this link
- We can send you an A5 printed gift voucher card in the mail
