The following online course will be offered as part of the New York State Creative Aging Initiative. The Westchester Department of Senior Programs and Services, Essex County Office for the Aging, and the Saratoga County Office for the Aging will communicate registration details to the older adults in their counties.
Photographing the Beauty Around Me: Digital Photography for Beginners from Lifetime Arts
Offered by:
Westchester County Department of Senior Programs and Services
Essex County Office for the Aging
Saratoga County Office for the Aging
When:
Westchester County: 6 Tuesdays, August 3-September 14, 2021 (no class August 17), from 2:00pm-3:30pm ET
Essex County: 6 Wednesdays, July 7-August 11, 2021, from 10am-11:30am ET
Saratoga County: 6 Fridays, July 9-August 13, 2021, from 2:15pm-3:45pm ET
Where:
Online via Zoom
“Photographing the Beauty Around Me” is a 6-week course designed to teach older adults to capture excellent, artful digital photographs of their environments and the people they come into contact with on a daily basis.
The instructor will lead discussions based on students’ weekly assignments focusing on camera operation and photo composition skills. By the end of this class, students will learn and hone basic aim-and-shoot skills and gain an appreciation for what makes a great photograph. (No previous photography skills are required.)
About the instructor
Rhynna is a Puerto Rico-born photographer and teaching artist living and working in the Bronx. Her art captures the beautiful, painful, funny, and endlessly complex lives and perspectives of people of color in her community.
In 2019, Rhynna was featured for the third time by the New York Times, which in 2018 also profiled her show #papielmaestro, a documentary exploration of the life of her father, jazz great, Ray Santos. Rhynna is the founder of the Bronx Women’s Photo Collective, curator for the Instagram feed Everyday Bronx and a member of the Bronx Photo League at the Bronx Documentary Center. Rhynna earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Women’s Studies from UCLA in 2007 and has lived and worked in Spain, where she placed in her first photography competition, PhotoEspaña.
Made possible by
This program, part of the New York State Creative Aging Initiative, is made possible through a partnership between the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York State Office for the Aging and Lifetime Arts. The project takes an innovative, evidence-based approach to healthy aging, underscoring New York’s leadership as the first age-friendly state in the nation.
