July 13 – August 3, Saturday mornings, 9am 12pm, Hawaii Standard time. (four meetings)
TAUGHT ONLINE
Fee: $175.00
Instructor: David Ulrich
Designed for fine art or documentary photographers, this class addresses best practices and the professional standards required to become successful in getting your work beyond your camera and desktop and into the world. Through lectures, demonstrations, and hands-on explorations, class material covers:
• Writing successful materials: artist statement, bio/CV, and cover letters
• Creating optimum online portfolios
• Creating an artist website
• Knowing your audience: researching opportunities
• Need to know basics of copyright law, commissions, and contracts
• Approaching and working with publishers, galleries, and editors/curators
• Tips for competitive submissions and juried exhibitions.
• Pricing and print sales; bidding on commissions
• Maintaining excellence and standards of professionalism
This class is for all photographers of all levels who want to explore the basics of professional practices in the art and photography communities, and the optimum methods of preparing materials for the dissemination of your work.
Class takes place on Zoom software. Please submit 6-8 jpg images, representative of your work, for the first class. 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
