Wednesdays, 5:30pm-8:30pm (Hawaii Standard time), 10 weeks, October 1, 2025 – December 10, 2025
TAUGHT ONLINE
Fee: $325
Instructor: David Ulrich
A personal vision is like a roadmap to help you make your artistic choices behind the camera and while selecting or editing images. It helps you clarify your intent and guides your explorations. The strongest photographs and most compelling projects contain a clarity of approach, with individual aesthetic choices based on your vision and character, as well as your conscious and unconscious responses and motivations.
Who are you? What is your own? In what time and place do you exist? What are you called to explore, to express, to be? What is your view of the world, based on your own commitments, biases, and past knowledge and experiences?
The instructor offers a range of enjoyable exercises and assignments that can help discover your authentic perspective, avoid easy solutions and clichés, and assist your capacity for discernment behind the camera and for editing images with a rigorously critical eye and mind, leading to effective and personal visual expression.
Class content consists of slide shows, readings, assignments and exercises, and response/critique of participant’s work.
Open to photographers in any geographic location, of all levels and with any type of camera, including cell phones.
Class takes place on Zoom software. Please submit 6-8 jpg images for the first class that are drawn from your archive and are most representative of your image-making and your core way of seeing. Instructor will send Zoom link and instructions for submitting images through Dropbox or Google Drive prior to the first class.
David Ulrich is a professor and co-director of Pacific New Media. He is an active photographer and writer whose work has been published in numerous books and journals. Ulrich`s photographs have been exhibited internationally in over 75 exhibitions. He is the author of The Widening Stream: the Seven Stages of Creativity, Zen Camera: Creative Awakening with a Daily Practice in Photography, and The Mindful Photographer: Awake in the World with a Camera (Rocky Nook 2022). He recently published a book of photographs, Oceano: An Elegy for the Earth, in April 2023. www.creativeguide.com
