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Starting Where You Are: The Autobiographical Lens

Explore the power of personal narrative through photography grounded in your daily life and surroundings. This reflective course encourages you to use your home, memories, and routines as creative inspiration while building a body of work. Through writing prompts, critiques, and artist studies, you'll develop a meaningful practice rooted in authenticity and self-discovery.

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Thu. Oct 29, 2026, 6pm ET (6 sessions)


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Sometimes the richest subject matter is right in front of you. This process-based course invites students to draw inspiration from daily life, domestic spaces, and personal experiences to develop a body of work. Through weekly assignments, writing prompts, discussion, and supportive critique, participants will explore image-making within their own environments, embracing the spontaneity and intimacy of working at home while clarifying the stories they want to tell.

During each online session, the group will share work and ideas in a safe space and engage with writing prompts to invite discussion and push projects forward. There will be a new assignment each week and each student will have time to show work and solicit feedback from the group. Students will look at other autobiographical artists and experiment with approaches such as self-portraiture, documenting family life, using objects found around the house, and working with archival images. Emphasis will be placed on letting go of perfectionism, building a daily creative practice, and using photography as a tool for reflection and self-care. By the end of the course, students will have begun or deepened a body of work rooted in personal experience.

Remote Learning

This course is available for "remote" learning and will be available to anyone with access to an internet device with a microphone (this includes most models of computers, tablets). Classes will take place with a "Live" instructor at the date/times listed below.

Upon registration, the instructor will send along additional information about how to log-on and participate in the class.

Refund Policy

  • In the event a student must cancel their registration for a workshop, they may do so any time before and up to 15 business days prior to the workshop start date, and will receive an 85% refund.
  • In the event a student must cancel attendance from a workshop within 15 business days prior to the start of the workshop this will be considered a withdrawal and the student will receive a 50% refund.
  • A withdrawal made within 4 business days of a class will NOT be entitled to any refund.

Please provide us with as much advance notice as possible for consideration. Beyond this, we cannot be held responsible for any cancellations outside of our control.

Unless otherwise stated, classes need a minimum of three students to run. In the off chance that a class is cancelled due to low enrollment, you will be refunded 100% of your tuition. Tuition costs for cancelled workshops can also be transferred to other classes or workshops.

We are not responsible for any non-refundable travel costs (such as airfare, train tickets or accommodation costs). If you are traveling long distances or from out of state, we advise you to consider purchasing travel insurance as workshops may be cancelled or postponed due to low registration or other unforeseen circumstances.

Due to the intensive nature of our workshops, we cannot offer makeup sessions outside of workshop time or in future workshops. Instructors are not required to bring students up to date during scheduled workshop time for missed days or lateness.

Refunds will not be given for absences or no shows. *This includes any illness or absence related to Covid 19.

In any event where a customer wants to cancel their enrollment and is eligible for a full refund, a 5% processing fee will be deducted from the refund amount.

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The Penumbra Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing workshops, education, lectures, and events to the worldwide photographic community. They aim to be a comprehensive resource for photographers of all levels and to promote the impact of photography on culture, history, and the arts.

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