Course in Digital Imaging: Learning to Look

In this course, you will learn how to tell stories using digital images, engaging in an active and creative use of photography. In addition, you will develop a critical look at the constant presence of images in modern society and expand the ways in which reality can be seen.

You will be encouraged to work in groups when planning your images, coming up with creative solutions for your assignments and resorting to experimentation, creativity, and play. In search of inspiration, you will visit the Museum’s exhibitions, as well as the works in the Museum Collection.

You are welcome to bring your mobile phone or tablet along to take pictures. If you cannot bring your own device, you will get a camera from us. To sign up for this course, a parent or guardian must sign a form authorizing picture taking during the workshops.

The course is conceived of as a series of progressive workshops to unfold throughout the year.

January 19: Overlapping Images

What happens when you place an image on top of another? Play with silhouette, color, and transparency – magic tools for images to tell stories.

January 26: Filtering Reality

If you could change what you see – the real things that surround you – by adding filters to reality, how would you change the world around you?

February 2: Images Coming to Life

Using animation and video to add movement to images. Just design a step-by-step sequence and your ideas will dance before your eyes!

February 9: Playing with Light for Magical Effects

Let’s manipulate light and shadow to create effects on the objects appearing on our pictures. That is the magic of light: it changes the whole picture!

February 16: How Do We Look at Things?

Using framing to create in-focus or out-of-focus images – and finding different ways of looking at the same room. The way we look at things can change our perception of them. Expanding our point of view to transform the way we see reality and find new meanings.

February 23: One Picture, Many Stories

If you had to send a message in a bottle using a picture, what picture would you choose? What story would you like your picture to tell?

Conducted by: Borja Gómez, Aitziber Aguirre

Duration: 90 min.
Ages: 9–12
Languages: Spanish and Basque
Limited number of places available