Photography: Seeing & Capturing (Term 2)

Before you take a photo, you have to learn to look.

About This Course

A camera doesn't make a photo interesting. The person holding it does. This course starts there, not with settings or equipment, but with looking. You'll learn what makes a photograph worth taking before you worry about how to take it.

What You'll Create

  • A folio of ten photographs developed across the term.
  • A three photo sequence that tells a story, selected for the end of term exhibition.
  • A brief verbal statement on one photo and the choice behind it.

Course Details

Age Range
9-11
Term
Term 2
Schedule
Mondays, 3:45pm
Duration
10 weeks
Price
$500
Spots Available
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What You'll Learn

  • • You'll find out why some photos hold attention and others don't.
  • • You'll use light, framing and distance to change what a photo means.
  • • You'll learn the basics of composition: where to put things, and why.
  • • You'll shoot with intention, not just point and click.
  • • You'll learn that one deliberate photo beats twenty accidental ones.

The Support You'll Get

You won't be handed the answer. You'll be shown how to find it.

Your practitioner has spent years making their own work, and their own mistakes. In the studio they work alongside you: asking the right questions, pointing out options you hadn't seen, helping you push through the moment you get stuck. The ideas stay yours. The decisions stay yours. They're there so you're never finding the way through alone.

Week by Week

Week 1: What makes a photo interesting? Light. Shooting the same object at different times of day.

Week 2: Framing. What's in the shot, what's out, and why it matters.

Week 3: Up close. Texture, detail, getting closer than feels comfortable.

Week 4: Far away. Scale, space, telling a story with distance.

Week 5: People. Photographing a friend or family member with consent.

Week 6: Everyday objects. Making something ordinary look worth looking at.

Week 7: Planning a three-photo story.

Week 8: Shooting the story.

Week 9: Editing and sequencing, choosing your best.

Week 10: Exhibition. Public showing, families attend.

Every course ends with an exhibition

Celebrate what you created with the people and our community. Every term concludes with a presentation or exhibition of your work: a chance to share your process, your ideas, and what you've made.

Your Instructor

Andrew Chew

Andrew Chew

Visual Communication & Photography

Andrew studied Visual Communication, majoring in Photography. Twenty years on, he's worked as a designer, photographer and gallery director, running No Vacancy Gallery and later directing YAVA. He built Assembly because the system around young people kept treating creativity as decoration instead of discipline. He teaches the way he's worked: try, fail, try again. Back your ideas. Test them. Push through when it's not working yet. He's spent years making his own work and his own mistakes, and in the studio he works alongside you, showing you how to look, how to frame, how to decide what matters, then make it.

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