Instructor: Carla Kimball

Through a unique mindful approach to photography, this 6 session online course is designed to guide you into a new way of seeing, helping you become more observant and aware of the ordinary beauty in your everyday surroundings. After some simple assignments to help you begin “turn on” your eyes, you’ll explore images that capture personal themes discovered over the course of the class.

As you review your classmate’s photos in two-hour, weekly online sessions, you’ll discover each person’s unique visual perspective as stories of their lives, loves, challenges ,and joys begin to emerge. You’ll also create a simple but highly expressive nine-word poems to deepen the narrative of your photos. The course will end with a slide show of selected images and poems from the class.  

Some working knowledge of a camera is recommended. Technological requirements:  A digital camera, access to the internet, and a Google account.

Click here for a slideshow of work made in this class.

With a degree in Counseling/Psychology and a specialization in Expressive Therapy, Carla Kimball has long known the value of the arts to expand people’s awareness. As a long time practitioner of the contemplative arts (meditation, tai chi, yoga), a facilitator of group experience, and a photographer of ordinary things, she has experienced the power of mindfulness to calm the spirit and of photography to focus the mind.