*NEW* Photographing Texture Photo Walks Downtown Winston
Class - Photography | Available
What happens when you stop looking at buildings as buildings—and start seeing them as surfaces, patterns, and stories? Photographing Texture invites you to slow down, look closer, and discover how the most ordinary facades in Downtown Winston-Salem can be transformed into compelling works of art.
In this three-week class, we’ll explore how weathered brick, peeling paint, rusted metal, concrete, glass, and utilitarian materials reveal unexpected beauty when examined up close. By isolating details and fragments, you’ll learn how texture can carry emotion, rhythm, and meaning—proving that in photography, the parts can truly be greater than the whole.
Through guided photo walks and in-field demonstrations, students will learn how light interacts with surfaces, when contrast or softness best reveals texture, and how color—or the absence of it—changes the visual impact of an image. We’ll discuss composition strategies for abstraction, including framing, repetition, scale, and layering, as well as color theory approaches that enhance mood and cohesion.
By the end of the course, students will have created a small portfolio of unique, abstract images that activate curiosity and reframe the familiar. This class is ideal for photographers of all levels who want to sharpen their observational skills and develop a more intentional, artistic approach to everyday subjects.
Week 1: Seeing Texture – light, materials, and visual awareness
Week 2: Composing the Abstract – walks through Downtown Winston-Salem
Week 3: Refining and Reviewing – selecting and discussing a cohesive texture portfolio
Come curious. Leave seeing the city differently.