Aperture On Sight
Teaching visual literacy through photography
Coming Soon: A ten-year refresh of the original Aperture On Sight curriculum!
Welcome to Aperture On Sight!
Aperture On Sight is designed to teach visual literacy through working with photography and creating photobooks. The curriculum combines art, visual and media literacy, and technology lessons. Learn more about how to get started.
A workbook for students to accompany the Aperture On Sight curriculum and encourage open dialogue and reflection.
Curriculum
Lesson 17
In lesson seventeen, teachers are asked to invite a guest editor—an artist, a photo editor from a magazine or nearby newspaper, a local professional photographer—…
Lesson 18
Lesson eighteen introduces students to the different caption forms that can accompany images, including picture titles, narrative captions, additive captions, and text. Using blank book…
Lesson 19
In lesson nineteen, students use online bookmaking software to bring their projects to life. Using their book dummies as a guide, students learn to use…
Lesson 20
In the last lesson of the program, students finalize their digital books and participate in a group critique, sharing honest and kind feedback about one…
More Teaching Tools
Aperture offers consulting and workshops for schools and educators seeking to engage with Aperture’s twenty-session visual literacy and photography curriculum.
Novice and experienced arts educators become comfortable leading groups of students through interpreting and creating meaningful images with the coaching of an Aperture On Sight visual literacy trainer—a professional photographer and trained arts educator.
Aperture teaching artists, who helped to write, develop, and test the Aperture On Sight curriculum, are available to provide direct educational services to schools, camps, museums or after- school/weekend programs. Our teaching artists are trained to teach the program in a variety of environments as well as work with partners to meet organizations’ needs.
About Aperture
Aperture, a not-for-profit foundation, connects the photo community and its audiences with the most inspiring work, the sharpest ideas, and with each other—in print, in person, and online.
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