Teaching

Graham Ramsay teaches photography at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  Over the past fifteen years, he has developed and implemented classes in both theory and technique through the MIT Student Art Association and the MIT Experimental Study Group.  His classes cover a wide range of subject matter, including fundamentals of photography (composition, lighting), traditional photographic techniques (silver printing) and archaic photographic techniques (gum bichromate printing, large format photography).

In addition to his teaching at MIT, he has offered workshops through the Rugg Road Paper Company in Boston, and has lectured at the St. Botolph Club, Boston, and the David Rockefeller Puerto Rico Winter Institute in San Juan.  

A sample of classes taught at MIT follows.

Seminars developed and taught through the Experimental Study Group:

• American Photographers and Their Influence

• Composing Your Life: An Exploration of  Self Through Photography, Art, and Writing

• The Artist in the World

Studio classes taught through the Student Art Association:

• The Finished Print

• Studio Lighting

• Photo Safari

• Photographing the Human Form

• Introduction to Gum Bichromate Printing

• Elements of Photo Composition

• Photo Critique