Photography Education
Resources for photographers who want to think more deeply about their business, history, and craft.
History of Photography
A 12-module course tracing photography from its invention in the 1800s through the digital age — covering science, social reform, war, modernism, documentary, and postmodernism. Each module connects the past to the questions photographers are still wrestling with today.
Free
Understanding Modern Art
A 6-part introduction to Modern Art from 1850 to 1970 — the same era that gave birth to photography. Covers Impressionism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, and Contemporary Art, with a focus on how photography and painting shaped each other.
Free
You lost the job to a photographer whose work wasn’t better than yours. The reason was not the portfolio. The reason is marketing.
An analysis of 53 popular marketing books that revealed their shared foundation, where they diverge, and how these discoveries can be applied to a photography business.
Book: Why They Hired That Photographer
Making Photogravures with Polymer Plates
A modern technique of historical photo-mechanical printing using steel-backed polymer plates, etched with water, and printed by hand with traditional intaglio processess
Free
Color Theory
Color is a model.
Take a look at three different color models and how they relate to how we construct our visual world.
Red/Blue/Yellow (painting)
Cyan/Magenta/Yellow (printing)
Red/Blue/Green (screens)
