The Museum School at the Cape Cod Museum of Art presents:
2-Day Workshop: Composing Better Photographs with Heather Pillar
Wednesday, August 14, and Thursday, August 15, from 2:00 - 4:00 pm.
Member $65 / Non-Member $80, includes Museum Admission
Explore the art of visual storytelling with any kind of camera - even your phone - and learn how to compose better photographs using design elements and guidelines such as the Rule of Thirds; leveraging shapes, playing with negative and positive space, utilizing lines, capturing symmetry and patterns, focusing on points of interest, embracing color, understanding distance, and achieving balance. Join in and enhance your creative vision.
Heather Pillar, photographer and teacher, has lived, taught and photographed in seven countries over four continents during the past 25 years. Her personal and collaborative photographic projects reveal her ongoing interest in women, girls' education, and aging.
In 1995, Heather collaborated with Morrie Schwartz during the last six months as he battled ALS. Her first monograph, Memento Morrie: Images of Love and Loss (Daylight Books, 2024) illustrates Morrie's philosophies through photographs of him interacting with family, friends, and caregivers and building community. Over a quarter-century later, Morrie's wisdom resonates with people around the world due to the best-selling memoir: Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom. Morrie taught people, including Heather - how to live fulfilling lives with love. “It is by facing fears of death that we learn how to live.”
Heather's photographs have been exhibited internationally as well as published in numerous newspapers and magazines such as People Magazine and The Boston Globe; books include The Wisdom of Morrie, Tuesdays with Morrie and Morrie: In His Own Words. Her work has also appeared on television (CBS Sunday Morning, Today Show) and online – NPR, Next Avenue (AARP) and on PBS’s Inside E Street.
https://www.ccmoa.org/events/2024-august-composing-better-photographs-with-heather-pillar