Lens on Spain: Photojournalism in Madrid is a study abroad class led by Senior Lecturer Kenneth Martin of the Communication and Journalism Department of Suffolk University in Boston.
Our first class in Spain will be held at the Suffolk University Madrid Campus during Summer Session I, 2013. As with Ken's previous classes in Tuscania,Italy and Dakar, Senegal, students will learn professional photography and photojournalism techniques and practices. Our field trips will include visits to the neighborhoods of Madrid, and excursions will take us to Barcelona, Granada, and Cordoba.
Students will produce individual and group portfolios, photo essays, and participate in a group exhibit in Madrid and in Boston in the Fall.
MARCH 2017 Since this intro was written two classes have been held in Madrid during Summer 2013 and 2015! Students exhibited photographs made during our stay, in Madrid at the Suffolk campus and and at Suffolk Boston. Our classes have traveled widely in Spain including photo expeditions to Cordoba, Granada, and La Mancha in Andalusia in the South, Madrid and environs including Escorial, Guadarrama, Cercedilla and Toledo, and Pamplona, San Sebastian, and Barcelona in the North, Caceres, Trujillo, and Merida in Extremadura in the West.
On campus lectures for camera handling, photojournalism practices, history of photography and photojournalism, photographers of Spain and from Spain, are held at the SU Campus near University City. On the bus and in the field lectures lead students in real world photo documentation and travel photography experiences.
To provide students with an in depth understanding of photography as it applies to the journalistic process and the ability to work and live in a foreign environment as world citizens.
