Sample our latest online course led by Gregory Halpern
Gregory Halpern: Documentary Sur/Realism features a curriculum of 16 lessons. The course unpacks his approach to portraiture, the power of editing and sequencing in building photographic narratives, and shares insights into how his celebrated projects and photobooks were created. Halpern shares his end-to-end process, from pressing the shutter and creating contact sheets to his approach to editing and sequencing, giving his honest reflections on the successes and the failures.
This trial offers a sample of the course that includes valuable advice that can be applied to your photographic practice, from reflections on photobooks, to observing the photographer interact and build rapport with subjects as he creates portraits by Niagara Falls.
About your tutor
Born in Buffalo, New York, Gregory Halpern is known for his intuitively rich colour photography that draws attention to harsh social realities as well as the unerring strangeness of everyday life. His work is rooted in both the real and the sublime and this approach has led him to photograph life in post-industrial towns of the American Rust Belt, the people and places of Los Angeles and the uniquely unifying experience of a total solar eclipse.
Halpern has published five books of photographs and is the editor, along with Jason Fulford, of The Photographer’s Playbook: Over 250 Assignments and Ideas (Aperture, 2014). He holds a BA in History and Literature from Harvard University and an MFA from California College of the Arts. Halpern was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2014 and teaches photography at the Rochester Institute of Technology.
