Me r c h a n t W o r k s
Class Work
I've taught in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY. since 1998. I started teaching 5th through 12th grades, and now teach exclusively in the High School. Over the years I've taught all the foundation studio classes and most of the high school electives. Currently I teach digital foundation classes, digital media electives, film-based photography and darkroom.
I have the best of both worlds. In my 35mm photography courses, students crave the satisfaction of making something; they love mastering camera controls, determining exposure, shooting, processing film, going into the darkroom with negatives and discovering enlarging skills... it must fill some deep urge. Students are in the darkroom morning, noon and night.
In my digital classes, students begin to master the magic of the digital workplace and to understand the visual culture that they inhabit.
Workshop Support Material
Photography - film and digital lesson plans
I gave this presentation at the 2011 NYSATA Conference in November.
PDF of the PowerPoint presentation with student examples.
Photography Assignments
A workshop first given at the NYSATA Conference in November 2010. These are PDF documents of my PowerPoint presentations of my lens-based Photography classes.
Photo 1 Assignments (film)
Photo 2 Assignments (film)
Photo 3 Assignments (digital)
This is a workshop I've given at the annual conference for the New York Art Teachers Association since 2004.
Photoshop Planning for Beginners PowerPoint Presentation
Photoshop Planning for Beginners Support PDF documents
This is a workshop I started giving in 2010, which is limited to a more basic exploration of the workplace, tools and processes for those who are at the beginning of their experience with teaching Photoshop. The link above is a PDF of my PowerPoint presentation.
Current information can be accessed at the Art Courses link of the Art Department page at Hastings High School.
AP Photography
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