How to Help Photography Students Develop Ideas

One of my favorite things about teaching art to all levels is helping students learn how to develop their own ideas. Developing ideas is also about finding problems, then creating something that solves the problem. Learning to think like an artist benefits students in all areas of their life.

A tool that I use over and over again with my students is the idea generation chart.

This video goes over how I teach the concept to my students:

I’ve had some questions about what this might look like for a student that is interested in photography, so I created a sample idea generation chart that focuses on photography to get you started.

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