Narrative Photography: Tell a Community's Story
Influences
A course by Andrew Kung , Photographer
About the video: Influences
Overview
“In this lesson, I'll talk through some of my biggest influences and where I get a lot of inspiration for my work. Not only do I seek creative direction from the work of fellow photographers, but I also like to explore other artistic mediums, including film, fine art, and more. ”
In this video lesson Andrew Kung addresses the topic: Influences, which is part of the Domestika online course: Narrative Photography: Tell a Community's Story. Learn how to plan, shoot, and edit a long-form photography project to create a series of images inspired by the story you want to tell.
Partial transcription of the video
“Influences Now that you know a little bit more about me, I will be going over a few of the major influences in my work and photography. As a photographer, I am constantly looking at different mediums of art, photography, filmmaking to really influence my work. I think that's a really important thing that I've learned over being a photographer. Not just looking at the work of other photographers, but to look outside of the photography genre. I think I get so much inspiration from films or fine art paintings that I grab screenshots of some of these influences and I put them all into a folder ...”
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Course summary for: Narrative Photography: Tell a Community's Story
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Photography, Portrait Photography

Andrew Kung
A course by Andrew Kung
Andrew Kung is a Brooklyn-based photographer working across genres to explore themes of race, identity, and belonging. His work images tender and intimate moments and recontextualizes how Asian American life is viewed and represented. Andrew’s bodies of work have been featured on Dazed, i-D, Vogue, Artsy, AnOther, NOWNESS, CNN, NBC, and The New York Times and he has worked with selected clients such as Glossier, The New Yorker, L’Officiel, Paper Magazine, Beats by Dre, and HBO.
Outside of making images, Andrew has guest lectured at universities such as SVA, FIT, School of The New York Times; he has won awards like PhotoVogue’s 100 Next Great Fashion Image Makers, LensCulture’s Summer Open, and Photolucida’s Critical Mass with resulting group exhibitions in Massachusetts, Seattle, and London.
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