TEEN PHOTO CAMP
with THOMAS HOLTON
July 11 - 15, 2022
MONDAY - FRIDAY
10:30AM-12:30PM and 2:30-4:30PM EST
ONLINE COURSE
LEVEL: Grades 9 - 12
LIMITED TO 12 STUDENTS
CLASS FEE: $375
ABOUT THE CLASS
Do you have a teenager who loves photography, but not getting what they need at their high school to improve their work and have a better understanding of the medium? Are you looking for your teen to develop their portfolio and get a head start even before college? Would your young shutterbug love to take a fun and challenging photography course this summer?
It can be really difficult for kids who are serious about photography to find the appropriate level of instruction, to get critique of their work, and to really gain momentum with their photography before college. Most high school photography programs, if they even exist, just don’t offer the kind of photography education that some teenagers crave. Young photographers also need the chance to create community and a friend group with kids who are equally passionate about photography. What these kids need is a deep dive, a more sophisticated experience that will offer them instruction, critique of work, and the opportunity to meet like-minded young photographers.
Acclaimed photographer and youth photo instructor Thomas Holton’s fun, assignment-based Teen Photo Camp is the perfect solution. In this hybrid online/outdoor course, students will identify their subjects of interest, receive feedback on their work, learn new technical skills, explore the history of photography and how it functions in the world today, and express their ideas and emotions with photographs.
This course will give your teen a serious advantage when it comes to pursuing photography in college and beyond.
WHAT TO EXPECT
Monday through Friday, students will attend an online 2-hour session in the morning and another 2-hour session in the afternoon.
The sessions will heavily emphasize individual feedback on students’ photographs. Participating teens will have lots of opportunities to get their work critiqued so they can push it to the next level.
Online sessions will also include basic camera and Lightroom tutorials, as well as slideshows on photography’s history and current status in the world, which will help your teen identify how they can fit into that history.
We know it is important for young people to get away from the screens, so class days will also be filled with challenging and fun outdoor shooting assignments.
Students are welcome to use dedicated cameras or their smartphones in this course.
Thomas Holton is a photographer and educator based in New York City. He received a BA in cultural anthropology from Kenyon College and his MFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts. His ongoing project, The Lams of Ludlow Street, has documented the life of a single Chinese-American family living in Manhattan’s Chinatown over the last 20 years. The project was published as a book in 2016 by Kehrer Verlag and has been shown in the United States and abroad at venues including The Museum of the City of New York, the New York Public Library, and the China-Lishui International Photography Festival. The Lams of Ludlow Street will be featured in an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. in the fall of 2022. The work has also been published by the New York Times, Aperture, The Guardian and many others periodicals. Holton has taught at the International Center of Photography and was co-founder of the VisuaLife photography program, working with at-risk teenagers in collaboration with the Children’s Aid Society in New York City. He is currently the photography instructor at the Trinity School in New York City.