Teach and learn photography with us.
This blog features ideas and inspirations from those using Photography: A 21st Century Practice to teach and learn photography.
Are you using the book, either as a learner or educator? We’d love to feature your images and text inspired by the book here.


How to Make Your Student Work Hard?
This guide will show you how to incorporate Photography: A 21st Century Practice’s innovative content into your photography classroom.
The focus of this guide is courses like Portfolio Development, Photography Studio, Photography Project, Photography Lab or any course with a focus on image production and expanding the body of work.

Educator’s Guide: Portfolio Development
This guide will show you how to incorporate Photography: A 21st Century Practice’s innovative content into your photography classroom.
The focus of this guide is courses like Portfolio Development, Photography Studio, Photography Project, Photography Lab or any course with a focus on image production and expanding the body of work.

Educator’s Guide: Photography II with Emphasis on Post-Production
This guide will show you how to incorporate Photography: A 21st Century Practice’s innovative content into your introductory photography classroom, from the university level, to high school, and even in community education settings.
The focus of this guide is courses like Digital Imaging, Photography II with an Emphasis on Post-Production, Introduction to Photoshop, etc.

Educator’s Guide: Photography I
This guide will show you how to incorporate Photography: A 21st Century Practice’s innovative content into your introductory photography classroom, from the university level, to high school, and even in community education settings.

Learning Photography in the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Student’s Survival Guide to Online Classes
The field of photographic education has adapted remarkably to the current pandemic, though educators and students both face challenges in this time of transition.
This blog post will explore the students’ perspective: what strategies and methods can students use to ensure they are successful in this online learning environment?

Photographer quotes: How to make it as an artist
Becoming a fine art photographer takes skill discipline, and hard work.
Here’s a sneak peak of the wisdom shared by our book’s featured artists:

Online Teaching in the Pandemic
Even in the best of times, photography educators are challenged with articulating visual and abstract ideas through words. To describe a scene, analyze a composition, or explain an artistic concept is no easy feat!
This challenge has been complicated, if not outright exacerbated, by the COVID-19 pandemic. Below are some challenges faced by many educators during the pandemic, and solutions the authors have found in their own practices.

What is exposure in photography? Here’s a video that explains it all!
In Photography: A 21st Century Practice, an analogy is used to explain the mechanisms behind making an exposure (see Show Me 3.1, page 94). Capturing light with the camera is likened to catching water falling from the sky.
In this video, author Mark Chen illustrates the analogy using real water - feel free to use this video as a teaching aid!