Dianne Kittle, Fine Art Photography, MFA, has taught photography workshops at the Chicago Botanic Garden for the last 12 years and offers private bookings for your group or one–on–one mentoring.
Current Offerings at the Chicago Botanic Garden for 2024:
The registration link for the CBG is here
Current Offerings:
Japanese Aesthetics in Photography II: Online
6 Tuesdays: September 10 – October 15, 1 – 3:30 p.m.
New! Wabi-Sabi is the Japanese philosophy centered on the acceptance that beauty can be transient and imperfect. Maximize your potential in photography by experiencing this Japanese aesthetic. You will explore the great photographers of Japan and create a book, video, or portfolio from images taken in class. We will also investigate the concept of satori, or sudden enlightenment, in terms of image making. We will photograph, write, and discover new sources of inspiration. Weekly image feedback and a one-on-one session with the instructor is included. Intermediate to advanced. FPC required course option, master track
The Ascent of Abstraction, History of Photography, A Project Orientated Workshop
Dates and Place TBA ( Online New!) Intermediate to advanced level
Follow the evolution of Abstraction in photography from the beginning of its invention. Take a journey and explore conceptual possibilities for new projects. Dissolve, deconstruct, and destroy the subject that stands before your camera. Create a new reality from inside you. Bring the invisible alive. Each week you will be given a project to do based on artists in the presentation. You will present images the following week and be given the opportunity to comment on images from other participants in DropBox.
Mentoring One-to-One (contact me directly)
Designed and individually structured for those desiring one-to-one mentoring to create a themed portfolio. Participants will be given feedback and direction on content and assistance with tools like Lightroom and Photoshop for developing a project. The goal will be strengthening your artistic voice by developing independence and clarity in image-making. Journaling, creativity exercises, source research, and writing will be encouraged to enhance the final portfolio. Contact directly for information diannekittlephotography@gmail.com
Existing Workshops with Curriculum:
Abstraction in Photography, The Inner Soul, Begining and Advanced
Abstract Expressionism, The Inner Landscape, Finding Real Truth, INVISIBLE Women Artists
Candid Photography, History of Photography, Modernism (Intermediate to advanced)
Creative Digital Photography For those who want to paint with the camera and feel (beginning level)
Fine Art Portfolio, Modernism (Components of a “submission” portfolio)
Fine Art Portfolio, Conceptual Beginnings, Creating a Portfolio with a Theme
Japanese Aesthetics, What is Wabi-Sabi, Beauty is Transient, a portfolio workshop, a sell-out workshop!
Pictorialism, The Beginnings of Concept, Clouds that Feel
Postmodernism: Appropriation to PROVOKE, Conceptualism in the Present
Storytelling, a portfolio with your theme of honest passion, dipping into the history of photography
Surrealism, Eyes Wide Open, Scream the Truth
Textures in Nature, See the Forest, See the Garden, Feel the Surface
Water Gifts, Canvas of Life, Abstraction versus Realistic, Power of the Invisible