How to Choose & Execute a Photo Project in Essay Form

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How to Choose & Execute a Photo Project in Essay Form

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Күн бұрын

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Photography communicates best when it tells a story and is presented in an essay form. In this zoom class David Brommer will use examples of his personal work as well as of other select artists to illustrate excellence in photo essay form. Concept, execution, and presentation will be discussed, as well as “project think tanking” in the q&a following the lesson. This class will benefit Photographers who want to deepen their commitment to the art or those looking for a inspirational shot in the arm!
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@chopinho65 5 ай бұрын

I searched out and purchased the life magazine with the Smith’s country doctor essay - amazing! He was a hell of a photographer.

@davidbrommer 5 ай бұрын

Indeed he was. I’m curious did you eBay it?

@chopinho65 5 ай бұрын

Yeh eBay purchase took a little digging for a while…but people are selling them.

@davidbrommer 5 ай бұрын

Good catch.

@SlavaVeres 8 күн бұрын

👍 Thanks so much for these very useful points regarding the photo projects and photo essays. I have a few projects in progress. Your advice on how to present your photos to the world really gave me some ideas. With love ❤️ from Canada 🇨🇦✌️🇺🇦

@UltraWhammy 5 ай бұрын

I was so pleased to see this new lecture uploaded. I've watched and listened to the BH lecture from a few years back many many times to top up my motivation and ferment ideas, and this new lecture is much appreciated, thanks David

@davidbrommer 5 ай бұрын

Thank you so much! Fermenting ideas… sounds like a good upcoming class!

@AustenGoldsmithPhotography 5 ай бұрын

Thanks for making this video . I think it has to be one of if not the most encouraging and thought provoking I have watched ( and I've seen tons!) Perfect for me where I am right now , I've had some great things happen in the last year , couple of small exhibitions , won a darkroom printing competition , been featured in a couple of magazines BUT I am becoming increasingly aware that curators are always looking for a story , a narrative , rather than a bunch of aesthetically pleasing prints and that's where I am falling down and fear I will soon hit a big wall as I try to take my work up a level and present it too reviews and curators

@davidbrommer 5 ай бұрын

I’m Thrilled you lived the course! More coming! Thank you

@bluzizalright 5 ай бұрын

Excellent presentation -

@davidbrommer 5 ай бұрын

Thank you kindly!

@matthewsarratt7289 5 ай бұрын

Love this David! Keep these coming- you have inspired me to get out and create/document more. Thank you for doing this…

@davidbrommer 5 ай бұрын

Hey Mat- good to hear and I look forward to your work you know I’m a fan!

@JBRose 5 ай бұрын

Had signed up but for some reason never got the link. However, so glad I've come back to watch this presentation. Bravo! Great stuff. Thank you. For sure following now.

@davidbrommer 5 ай бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

@TomReplogle 5 ай бұрын

Great discussion and thank you for bringing the movie Minamata to my attention. I paused this video to go watch it. Powerful movie. I look forward to more of your videos.

@davidbrommer 5 ай бұрын

That’s wonderful! It’s a shame that movie went under the radar. Depp did good. Much better than the Pirate! Thank you.

@TomReplogle 5 ай бұрын

@@davidbrommer Agreed!

@patriciagilhooly_images 5 ай бұрын

Very worthwhile! Concise, thoughtful and practical. I have been inspired-----

@davidbrommer 5 ай бұрын

My work is done here. :-)

@LesWilcockson 5 ай бұрын

Very inspiring David. This has given me just the motivation to finally complete a project I started ‘some’ time ago (I’m embarrassed to say exactly how long ago!). Looking forward to more inspiration 😎

@davidbrommer 5 ай бұрын

Wonderful! Please share when you are ready!

@pjcooneyut 5 ай бұрын

Well done, with great examples, both from the past and more recently. I liked, especially, how well you tied your eight points to both the historical work and your current work. Thanks, too, for your energetic efforts toward solving the inevitable production problems.

@davidbrommer 5 ай бұрын

Thank you very much, I enjoyed the research on Mr. Smith tremendously. the production will get better and better !!

@davidbrommer 5 ай бұрын

Thank you! I love a good challenge and I’m looking forward to doing much better.

@johndewhirst3089 5 ай бұрын

Excellent feature. Hilarious comment about French enthusiasm to speak English.

@oneeyedphotographer 5 ай бұрын

That helped. I don't think I hae heard the expressison "photo essay," and essay oitself much at all since I left school. Some of Asimov's writings he called essays, but there was nothing photographic about them. By your estimation I have essay-like sequences from last Tuesday, but I'm unsure I can condense them to four photographs. At least, without omitting heaps. And the subject in them is always blurred, because I chose one second exposures. A conjectured use of the photos is to make a timelapse, but I shot so they could stand alone or be combined for artistic or bemusement purposes. Beyond observing that people regularly pass by where II placed the camera, there was no research. I am autistic, this may have lead to my earlier confusion. I think that Mr Smith was likely autistic. I found your "piece of work" description rude, disrespectful . Here are two people to look up on KZbin - Temple Grandin, Chloe Hayden. As a child, I expect Temple was described as "a difficult child, a slow learner." Chloe's support needs are so great, she was expected not to leave home. Autistics are often gifted too. Temple survived a difficult childhood to become a professor, this without being able to do algebra.

@davidbrommer 5 ай бұрын

Hi One Eyed, I'm glad you have found a challenge in the essay form and are editing with that in mind. I meant no disrespect in my comment and you could substitute "he was a pistol" for "piece of work" but that's just semantics, the man was difficult in respect to all complicated artists. I have no idea if he was autistic and no mention of that in my research shows up, except he was Richards was a driven and much like another famous photographer said to me, "I don't suffer the fool". Good luck on your photo journey, keep it going. Thank you

@oneeyedphotographer 5 ай бұрын

@@davidbrommer Still that is rude and disrespectful. Autistics are born autistic, just as Western Europeans are born Western European, with physical features that distinguish them from, say, many Eastern Europeans. That Genghis Khan fellow, you know. Autism is counted a disability, because many of our common traits are disabling. Temple Grandin and Chloe Hayden are good examples, both can be found on KZbin. As a child, Temple would have been described as a "slow learner." Putting people down is never correct.