SUMMER PHOTOGRAPHY CAMPS:
Digital Only, Digital & Darkroom, and Advanced Photo Intensives

• New York City Campus: Age Groups 13-16 & 16-19
• Los Angeles Campus: Age Groups 13-16 & 16-18
• Vermont Campus: Age Groups 13-16 & 16-18
• High School Photographers: Earn College Credit for our Three-Week Intensives

OVERVIEW & CURRICULUM
SOCAPA offers one, two and three week summer programs in traditional 35mm darkroom and/or digital photography with a strong emphasis on aesthetics and portfolio development. Students take classes in studio and portrait photography, photojournalism, documentary, fine art photography, Photoshop, Lightroom and web publishing. When applying to the program, students must choose one of our three intensive workshops: Our Digital Photography Workshop, our 35mm Darkroom & Digital Photography Workshop, and our Advanced Photography Workshop.

DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY , "The Art of Faces & Places"
BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE - OFFERED AT ALL OF OUR CAMPUSES
SOCAPA's Digital Photography Workshop focus on digital SLR cameras, Photoshop and Lightroom. Students are introduced to an array of digital photographic techniques used in the studio, on location and in post-production. The "Faces" component of the program emphasizes the art of capturing the human condition on camera. Students learn what makes a good photograph by studying the aesthetics of master photographers such as Dorthea Lange, Sally Mann, Walker Evans, Diane Arbus and Robert Frank. Students learn the fundamentals of composition and natural lighting as well as studio portrait techniques.

The "Places" component of the program reminds students to never forget where they are. Photography, even in the studio, does not take place in a vacuum. New York City, Los Angeles, and the diverse landscapes of Vermont, offer a wealth of photographic opportunities as well as some of the world's most exciting collections of visual art. Field trips are planned on an almost-daily basis. Students spend more time at the parks, boardwalks, streets and museums, learning and practicing photographic techniques than they do in the traditional classroom. Formal classes in the history of photography, aesthetics, photo theory, Photoshop, Lightroom and studio lighting complement the work they do out in the field. In a final class on web design and publishing, students learn to create an online portfolio of their summer work, which is posted on the SOCAPA server at the end of the program.

THIS COURSE IS GOOD FOR: Students without a lot of formal training who are more interested in photographing the sights of the city and exploring the museums than they are in learning traditional 35mm darkroom photography. Students should be passionate about the arts in general and photography specifically and should adore walking and seeing.

35MM DARKROOM & DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY, "D&D Art Workshop"
ADVANCED BEGINNER TO INTERMEDIATE - OFFERED IN NEW YORK AND BURLINGTON, VT
SOCAPA's "D&D Art Workshops" in New York City and Burlington, Vermont, expose students to both 35mm black & white darkroom photography and color digital photography. Students learn to shoot and develop 35mm film and spend an average of twelve hours per week in our gang teaching darkrooms (2 darkrooms with 12 enlargers each). Students also learn color digital photography, and on most photo safaris (city excursions to Coney Island, East Village, Times Square, etc.) students will shoot with two different cameras, capturing a mix of both 35mm black & white negative film and color digital files. Students also learn Photoshop/Lightroom editing techniques and portrait studio photography using strobes, flashes and seamlesses. During the final week, students are introduced to web publishing and learn to create an online portfolio of their summer work, which is posted on the SOCAPA server at the end of the program.

Our "D&D Art Workshops" move at a faster pace and are technically more intense than our Digital Only "Art of Faces and Places" workshops. It is recommended that incoming students have basic photography experience and an understanding of key concepts and terms like depth of field, aperture, shutter speed and f-stops. That said, SOCAPA will accept beginning students with a passion to learn darkroom photography into the program with an understanding that the student will read at least one book on basic photography before the program starts, hence the "Advanced Beginner" label. Most introductory photography books are more than adequate but for those seeking a recommendation, we suggest the aptly named "Basic Book of Photography" by Tom and Michele Grimm.

THIS COURSE IS GOOD FOR: Students who have basic photography experience and are passionate about learning traditional 35mm film and darkroom techniques in addition to emerging digital technologies.

ADVANCED DARKROOM & DIGITAL, "Advanced D&D Art Workshop"
ADVANCED LEVEL - OFFERED IN NEW YORK CITY ONLY
SOCAPA's "Advanced D&D Art Workshop" in New York City is for our return photography students and students who have extensive experience with digital and traditional 35mm black and white darkroom photography. Advanced Photography students will have the opportunity to work in medium format. In addition, students learn to use the myriad tools Photoshop and Lightroom have to offer in order to create exciting images. A strong emphasis will be placed on portfolio development and each student will be encouraged to create a body of work that showcases his or her own unique creative vision through thematic and stylistic choices.

COLLABORATION
Our Summer Photography Programs are closely tied to our Acting, Filmmaking and Dance Programs. As part of their assignment each week, a photography student may be sent out to shoot production stills on a film set one morning or off to the studio to light and shoot headshots for an actor or dancer one afternoon. In this way, each photography student builds an impressive entertainment portfolio to complement the documentary and fine art work they do in class and on field shoots. This also allows the photography students to mingle and work with other young visual and performing artists, which often leads to future collaborations and, more importantly, friendships that last a lifetime.