The personal project can be a uniquely gratifying experience.  Many professional photographers get lost in the day-to-day of making art for hire and need a personal project to help focus and refine their creative vision.  Many aspiring photographers start with a personal project to help them discover their talents, passions, and goals. 

Join photographer Felipe Dupouy as he shares work from his personal projects, and helps photographers of all levels identify and pursue personal projects. Felipe will discuss how to choose a project that will keep you inspired, how to get started, and how to keep the momentum going.  After the 2-hour session, Felipe is happy to review student work.

ABOUT FELIPE DUPOUY

Felipe’s talent for creating stunningly effective images has made him highly sought-after for a large variety of commercial work. Felipe, a graduate of Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, has shot over fifty feature stories and several striking covers for the Los Angeles Times Magazine and Los Angeles Magazine, plus dozens of features for business periodicals including Forbes, Fortune, Money, and Smart Money magazines.

In 2006 his surreal black and white photographs for the Los Angeles Magazine article “Disnoid Land” garnered a prestigious Society of Publication Designers award. Dupouy’s passion for the eccentricities of Southern California are also reflected in his work that has been featured on popular television programs, including Heroes, The Closer, and Jimmy Kimmel Live, as well as in such films as I Am Legend, Duplicity, and Burlesque.

Felipe recently completed a ten year personal project titled “Portrait Los Angeles” that began during the mid 1990’s, prior to the massive revitalization efforts that have recently transformed the area. In trying to figure out what drew him to these deserted streets, he recalls, “I realized that people leave something behind when they pass through these places. You touch a handrail on the way down, you sneeze, you kneel to pick up your keys. I felt like these were the things that I was photographing—emotions, tiny moments that people had left behind.”