Photography
Instructor: Maia Dery
Guilford’s photography classes emphasize the development of technical skill in the service of developing your own authentic style. In the Quaker tradition, questions of vocation and how each photographer can fill the role of the individual artist in the context of community informs this search for authenticity.
The program begins with a rigorous grounding in traditional black and white film photography and then allows students freedom to pursue digital and alternative processes, as well as other forms of contemporary camera-based art.
There is a darkroom with eight enlargers, a lighting studio, and a separate digital lab with Adobe Photoshop CS6 for student use. Guilford photography students are a diverse community with wide ranging intellectual and creative interests. As more advanced students progress in their project-based studies, they learn to bring their increasing technical skills to bear on the varied concepts and contexts relevant to their broader liberal arts education.