Friday, January 21, 2011

My Assignment List from when I taught PS Ed. Heh... yeah, they were pretty tough. So? You were expecting easy?

I taught post secondary education for a number of years. The assignments I would give out were pretty difficult for the student photographers. And, yeah... a lot of them hated different ones and loved others.

But my feeling was if you could do these, you could really turn on the creativity and make it work FOR you.

Anyhow here is the assignment list:
1. An image of one thing, that says only one thing about it.
2. A person who represents what you wanted to be when you were 6.
3. A kid who loves you... and I gotta see the love.
4. The thing that makes your mom your mom (or dad, or sister)? Shoot it.
5. You know your favorite song? The one you always turn the radio up on? Shoot a photograph to go on the cover of that album. I don't care if I get it... do you?
6. A bridge. From one place to another. One soul to another. One child to another. A bridge.
7. Your most hated food (for me - liver and onions) but make it look so good you are even tempted. You can have people in the shot, but not more than 12.
8. Show me a sports game in a landscape. No athletes, just the game. No sports field, just the game. No balls, no hockey sticks, no buckets of ice. Just the game as a landscape.
9. Happiness.
10. Any musical instrument, with people or not. Here's the deal though, we should feel something when seeing it, not just 'see' it.
11. Cute kitten... nawww... just kidding. Make it a place that seems abandoned, or lonely... if a place can be lonely make me feel it.
12. The one photograph you would want to sum up your photographic career today. You have been invited to show at the most prestigious show in NY and you can show only one picture. Show me that picture.

Good luck...


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1 comment:

Ed Z said...

I like this. Gonna try some of these next time I am in a "creative rut" :-)