01) Basic Photography for Children

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Photography Kids Beg 585 585 80

About this class

This class is for children who like to take pictures and want to learn how to do it better!

Learn the basics of photography and improve your practical and technical skills. Express yourself with your photographs and make your camera your best friend!

Class Outline
  1. Introduction to basic concepts of photography
  2. Practical demos
  3. Shooting exercises
  4. Editing and sharing your work

Materials needed

Please note: VCUQatar reserves the right to cancel classes for which not enough participants are registered. Already paid fees will be refunded.

Please do not purchase materials until VCUQatar has sent final course confirmation.

Items to buy for this class

Participants are required to buy their own materials beforehand and bring them to every class

  • Your own Digital SLR (or) compact camera and lenses
  • USB data transfer cable and USB 
  • Paper Pad for note taking
  • Pen

On occasions, there may be some more materials to be bought and brought in if and when advised by the instructor.

Where to buy your materials

Most of the materials are available from any art supply shop, for example:
  • Cass Art (Fire station): Community Classes students get a 15% discount upon presenting the registration ticket
  • Jarir Bookstore: on Rayyan Road or Salwa Road
  • Color Note: on Al Nasser Street
  • Ibn Al Qayyim: at Markhiya Roundabout
  • Al Rawnaq

Schedule

Start: Mon, 18 Mar, 2019
End: Mon, 8 Apr, 2019
Lessons: 4
Days: Mondays
Time: 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Location: VCUQatar, Room 166
Cost: QAR 750

Instructors

Aparna Jayakumar 1 150 100 80 2

Aparna Jayakumar
Lecturer

Aparna Jayakumar, 35, is a photographer from Mumbai now based in Doha. She was a student of Art History and Photography at the Aegean Center for the Fine Arts in Italy and Greece. Previously, she studied Photography, Film and Psychology in Mumbai. She was nominated for the international photography award Prix Pictet in 2009. Her work has been published in Monocle, Christie’s Magazine, Harper’s Bazaar, Travel+Leisure, BBC TopGear and other publications. She has shot for brands such as Hermès, GEOX, Qatar Airways, Vodafone, Ford, Cadbury’s and publicity stills for films with directors such as Mira Nair, Sooni Taraporevala and Vishal Bhardwaj. Jayakumar taught photography to media students at Sophia College, Mumbai from 2009-13, and has been an instructor at the Anjali Photo Workshops for the children of Cambodian NGO Anjali House. She founded the Bombay Photo Club and ran photography events in the city featuring photographers from the world over.

You can see her work at www.aparnaphoto.com

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