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Reframing The Frame: Classroom Innovations in Analog Photography

Lindsay Godin: Adam Long, Frank Hamrick

Friday, March 20 - 9:00AM to 11:00AM
Atlanta 3

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.

The first half of this session will introduce various innovative analog assignments, student projects, and classroom practices that integrate traditional and alternative photographic processes into contemporary pedagogy that foster student learning through iterative making, material exploration, and reflective problem-solving. Presenters will 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.

The second half of this session will consist of a round table discussion for audience input and discussion. Educators will be encouraged to share their own analog innovations and how their approaches have supported their students' conceptual development, technical proficiency, and creative processes which engage students more deeply with the medium, the learning environment, and the broader social world.