Welcome to The Essentials, a series of online classes for photographers presented by The Everyday Projects + Black Women Photographers. These online classes will take place once a week from May 5 to June 2 with instructors Kiana Hayeri, Andrea Wise, Nicky Woo, Danielle Villasana, and Yagazie Emezi. Each class is 75 minutes and will include a Q&A.

Nicky Quamina-Woo has a career as both a commercial and documentary photographer. In this class, she will touch on the basics of portraiture lighting, marketing your work, and tailoring your portfolio to fit the client. She will review the portfolio of 1-3 students for the class to learn from, as well as show examples of successful images, investigating why each works (or doesn’t) from a lighting perspective.

These Webinars are free, but we'd love it if you made a $5 donation to Black Women Photographers to help us continue our mission in supporting Black women and non-binary photographers globally.

You can donate here.

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