Wie kann sich die Fotografieausbildung anpassen, um die Schülerinnen und Schüler auf die Zukunft vorzubereiten?

It can gear up for the future by blending classic techniques with modern tech. Teaching basics like composition and lighting stays crucial, but adding digital skills is a must—like photo editing and understanding new tools. Also, diving into diverse photography styles, like mobile photography or VR, helps students adapt. Showing how to navigate the business side, like marketing online or social media, prepares them for the real world. Lastly, encouraging creativity and adaptability sets them up to explore and thrive in photography's changing landscape!

I agree with this to some extent un the sense that online learning equips students with digital skills to thrive. But I'll also root for a traditional classroom setting also, because it gives you an in-person experience the online learning won't give. You get to practice as you're being taught, you see why Rembrandt lighting is different from flat lighting and that experience can be etched in your memory and you also get to ask questions in real time. But the future is also online, meaning photographers have to keep updating and relearning and also sharing these knowledge to potential students online to keep them up to date.

Just gow photography is a continuous learning, the art is evolving continuously as well. Online learning will teach us almost everything. Video courses, assignments, projects and what not! It's just the way to go.

In the era when AI can create images that look like genuine photographs only "better", human photographers should be real and true: capture real moments and tell true stories. All the above stems from an only-human ability to experience life and tell its stories in one eloquent image - not perfect, just well-timed and good-angled

With time students might have to work harder than now to find their unique style of storytelling but they'll definitely find it because creativity has no limits. Being observant and experimental will help students get there faster I believe.

Photographers must think as creative directors, story tellers, visual directors, or risk being reduced to technicians and button pushers (easily replaced by future tech). Viewers do not stop the scroll for technically excellent photos. Viewers stop the scroll when there is a story in th photo.

The core principles of photography, capturing light through a lens onto a light-sensitive surface for a set time, have stayed consistent since its inception. However, the advent of digital capture in 2000 revolutionised our methods. It's vital for photography courses to include contemporary innovations like computational photography to stay relevant. In the past 18 months, I've been part of a steering group revising the UK's Photography Apprenticeship scheme. We recommended integrating newer technologies into the curriculum. The Institute for Apprenticeships and Technical Education (IFATE) has proactively adopted these suggestions, marking a significant advancement for those aspiring to a photography career.

With the new Ai trend in editing, expanding backgrounds, creating images with prompts (right keywords). There's an opportunity to have better workflow. Instead of long hours of editing, it can be done in minutes, instead of manually filling the background, Ai can create unique suggestions, instead of long retouch time, it can be done on mere minutes. The ability to incorporate new technologies for an efficient workflow saves times, energy and allos you to create as much as you want whilst getting amazing results in turn.

New tech vs old tech. Don't get caught up in the polarization of the debate. We need both. All technology is build on the foundation of photography, so understanding the history, the basic technological underpinnings (controlling light and exposure triangle) as well as visual composition to tell stories (same design foundations throughout the history of art, regardless of medium).... Understand the foundation, and don't get left behind by not knowing emerging technology as it appears. All tech is just a tool to help you tell a story. Treat it as a tool and not a solution for bad story telling.

This cane be over emphasized. Collaboration over competition. In collaborating, you learn communication, you see from other photographer's perspective, why they'd prefer to shoot a way, why they'd prefer to light a way, the emotion they want to convey in their image. Collaboration opens doors to creativity, new ideas, and better still new relationships. Whenever you can, collaborate with other creative professionals, it's a gold mine.

Being a freelance photographer is not just about taking photos, being an artist, getting lovely photos to show. You also have to be a business person. And it's good to learn that sooner rather than later. Photography schools should be teaching the business side of things also. You should be learning about law, about accounting, about finance, savings and investments, looking after your finances. They should teach how to approach clients, pitching for work, and how to run a business... Taking the pictures is the easy part.

A lot of time as photographers, we focus more on the art of photography and find the business part a little tricky. Photography education should include teaching students how to make profit, table down their expenses, cost of production, amout in gear purchase, how to manage their time and resources so you don't get burnt out, how to expand and get more work done. These are also important to the growth of a photographer, apart from the ART.

The mindset vital for success in the business of photography is that of a Difference Maker. It is not about you, or your art, it is all about solving a problem for your client. Unfortunately 99% of what our industry teaches and says wires is to believe it’s all about ourselves!!! When we set out to use the art and science of photography to transform peoples lives is what being a Difference Maker is truly about. As the great leader Simon Sinek teaches us - lead with your Why and the financial results will look after themselves. Become a Difference Maker rather than a starving photographic artist!!!

Entrepreneurship is a possibility, but not a neccesity. The discussion must happen within the context that photography can be a business AND photography can be an art AND photography can be a hobby. For those who want to explore photography as a business, students are encouraged to take classes in marketing, micro and macroeconomics, bookkeeping. These should be full classes, outside the photography class or run the risk of short changing both the photography classes and the business classes, thus under-educating the students.

Sustainability is overused as a way to wash away our guilt. A photographer does not have any obligation to address sustainability at all. Humans must make a choice between actually doing better or simply talking about it. Doing better involves making choices on a daily and personal level that are honest. Doing better involves legislation that prevents industry from only giving us bad choices. Doing better has nothing to do with photography, specifically. If someone wants to use photography to document and comment, then that is that photographer's choice. It is, under no circumstance, an obligation.

Photography education ties into larger discussions of visual skills that are becoming more important, especially when it comes to information literacy. Learning about what image-making entails can provide a way to counter fake news by providing skills for visual analysis and critical thinking.

My husband teaches degree to PhD level photography. He teaches his students business skills as well as the ability to learn a creative interpretation of image making rather than just copy what’s already out there . When you learn photography from an artistic point of view you have a better chance of making different images for clients , more creative briefs. You also understand everything from film through to studio practice and so you have a huge skill set on completion.

While there are lots of resources for learning photography online or by trial and error, pursuing more formal training can expand your knowledge, give you discipline; push your creative boundaries, and explore different genres. There is always something to learn with photography and education can hone your technical skills, and develop a portfolio that will give you a greater advantage. Although you don’t need a formal education, the networking, exposure and connections you make through learning from industry experts is incredibly valuable.

Photography is a needed skill for anyone pursuing a career in the creative field as it teaches you about perspective, composition, field of view, lighting, and capturing a subject or story without the need to learn how to draw or sculpt.

Photography is about photography. But not only. It is about a community of professionals, whether business or art people. As a community we generate value and this value should be recognized first and foremost by all the members of this community. We need to convey to students that photography is necessary, it is everywhere and it needs the appropriate financial retribution as well as the respect of authorship. Together we need to pull photography upwards, and the next generation needs to be fitted with the adequate knowledge and strong sense of belonging to a worldwide community of professionals.