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print this pageReframing The Frame: Classroom Innovations in Analog Photography
Lindsay Godin: Adam Long, Frank Hammock
Friday, March 20 - 9:00AM to 11:00AM
Atlanta 4
As photographic practice becomes increasingly shaped by the immediacy and convenience of digital technologies, analog darkroom photography offers students a meaningful counterbalance: cultivating slowness, critical engagement, and a deeper understanding of experimentation and problem-solving through hands-on, process-oriented learning that resists instant feedback. This session invites educators to share innovative analog assignments, student projects, and classroom practices that integrate traditional and alternative photographic processes into contemporary pedagogy. Presenters are encouraged to showcase specific strategies that foster student learning through iterative making, material exploration, and reflective problem-solving. Presenters will also be encouraged to include examples of socially engaged projects, cross-disciplinary collaborations, and community-based engagements that extend analog practices beyond the classroom, positioning photography as a vehicle for civic dialogue and collective inquiry. Emphasizing the pedagogical value of analog experiences, this session aims to spark participants' dialogue on how such approaches can support students' conceptual development, technical proficiency, and creative processes. In an era when photography education is often driven by digital fluency and efficiency, this session reimagines analog processes not as nostalgic, but as pedagogically urgent, offering transformative opportunities to slow down, think critically, and engage more deeply with the medium, the learning environment, and the broader social world.
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