SnapLab: Photography Studio Sessions
SnapLab: Photography Studio Sessions
Tuesdays, August 4 – 25
$180 Members | $200 Non-Members
for the full 4-week course
(No individual class purchases available • Ages 14+)
6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
SnapLab: Photography Studio Sessions is a four-week, hands-on photography course for teens and adults who want to get confident behind a camera — any camera. This is a shooting-first course: every session puts a camera in your hands, whether you’re practicing the exposure triangle at hands-on stations, hunting compositions on a guided photo walk through downtown New Bedford, or working with studio lighting at the Museum.
Skills build week to week — exposure, composition, lighting, and editing — and short group shares at the end of each session help you learn to see what’s working in your own photos. The course wraps with a final shooting challenge and a casual gallery-style showcase of each participant’s best work from the month.
No experience needed. SnapLab is designed to teach photography skills and to grow a creative community where local photographers can connect, collaborate, and build confidence together.
What to Bring
Any camera participants are comfortable using — DSLR, mirrorless, or smartphone.
Free Introductory Photo Walk
Join Philip on Saturday, July 11 for a free introductory community photo walk! All are welcome and no preregistration is needed.
Just meet us at The Green Bean in Downtown New Bedford at 12 PM (740 Purchase Street).
Program Goals
Program Goals
Session 1: The Exposure Triangle, Hands-On After a short introduction to aperture, shutter speed, and ISO, participants move straight into shooting stations — freezing and blurring motion, controlling depth of field, and working in low light. The session ends with a quick group share, building a habit of looking at and talking about photographs from day one.
Session 2: Composition on the Street-A brief primer on framing — leading lines, layers, negative space — followed by a guided photo walk through downtown New Bedford with structured shooting assignments designed to sharpen the eye. Participants return to share one favorite frame from the walk.
Session 3: Studio Light-A studio night at the Museum: portraits and still life under controlled lighting, where participants actively adjust exposure as the light changes. The session closes with a live group edit of one image, introducing accessible editing tools by demonstration.
Session 4: The Shootout & Showcase-The course finishes the way it ran — shooting. Participants take on a themed photo challenge applying everything from weeks 1–3, then select their best images from the full month for a casual gallery-style showing to celebrate the work and the community built along the way.
Note: film photography is not covered in this program
Instructor: Philip Mondeau
Philip Mondeau is a New Bedford–based digital visual artist who blends surrealism and street photography to reveal the divine in the everyday mundane. A self-taught fine arts photographer who got his start shooting sports for his college newspaper, he now creates work for individual collectors and has exhibited in galleries and publications across multiple states. His background includes darkroom film processing and studio fashion photography. Through SnapLab, Philip hopes to build a creative community of local photographers.