Photography in focus

Top left - Tallulah Pestell, Year 12 Top right - Pippa Ford, Year 12 Bottom right - Angela Lyall and Hayden Cullinan, both Year 11 Bottom left - Jasmine Aitken, Year 12

Long-gone are the days of working in a dark room with developer liquid and tongs in photography lessons. Students at PLC experience a much more tech-savvy curriculum with the latest digital cameras, thought-provoking excursions, and experimentation with a range of industry standard software Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom and Illustrator.

Their creativity was brilliantly showcased at the Creative Art and Technologies Exhibition and none more so than the Year 11 portraits which were an outstanding highlight in the display. Design photography was introduced at PLC in 2018 and since then has been available to students to study as an ATAR or General pathway. During the course, students are encouraged to design and capture images inspired by a range of photographers, styles and themes including David Hockney’s abstract photomontage series through to Annie Leibovitz’s expressive style of studio portraiture.

Additionally, students studying photography are provided with opportunities to work in within a range of production contexts including studio production, photojournalism and photographic art forms.