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Photojournalists capture that je ne sais quois in photos of everyday life by showing us the powerful and the victorious and the beautiful. They also give us profound photos of the ordinary and the familiar. Photographer Daniel Kramer will teach tricks of the trade to help you improve the photos you take of your life, family and friends. You will learn to take better portraits and location shots as well as better images of family gatherings and sporting events. The course will include group critiques of student work. Participants are asked to bring three of their own photographs (prints or digital files on a memory stick) to the first class to discuss with the group.

Note: One class will be a visit to a local photo exhibition.

Instructor: Daniel Kramer, a photographer who has worked for Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report and the Wall Street Journal, has had his work published in numerous magazines internationally. The Houston Press Club named him photojournalist of the year in 2008, and in 2007 he received honorable mention in Editor & Publisher magazine’s annual contest for feature photography. Mr. Kramer’s work has been exhibited in the U.S. and Syria and is in the permanent collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. He holds an MFA in documentary photojournalism from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco.

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