Art and Design
Everyone
2 hours 23 min
JODI BIEBER TEACHES
The Ability to See Beyond the Lens
Take a deeper look behind the lens and into the true heart of photography. Sharing her significant body of work, visual artist, Jodi Bieber, divulges what it means to take and tell the real picture.
- Bite-sized tips on Series Photography
- First-hand expertise and advice on how to make visual art
- A walk-through some of her most significant work
- Ep 7: Jodi and Bibi – the story that launched a million views
Impact the world with your Ability to See!
This is not the Playbox that teaches shutter-speed, aperture and how to flex your new EOS R5. This is the Playbox that’ll teach what it really means to “get the photograph”.
FREE Intro: The Real Picture
9min
Jodi explains what lies beyond the lens, what it means to “get the photo” and what comes with pulling the trigger.
EP 1: The Mug Shot
11min
Jodi explores the urgency of reference points, real moments and every photographer’s can’t-do-without work book: the visual diary.
EP 2: 32 Neighbourhoods
17min
Jodi lets you in on a personal visual tour of her ‘Soweto’ series. Find out how she built a series that became less about the township and more about the people.
EP 3: 12 o’clock Light
13min
How do you get the composition right? And create mood? How do you capture energy, expression, and movement in just one frame?
EP 4: Post
16min
Jodi shares how photography has transformed and how the new tools of the trade have revolutionised the art and the edit.
EP 5: The Real Darkroom
17min
What happens when you access a woman-only prison in South Africa with a Yashica Mat, a tripod, a sound recorder, and a vision?
EP 6: Lady at the Pool
14min
Can you teach gut feel? Discover Jodi’s answer here as she explores the photo that went from poolside to front page news.
EP 7: Close Your Eyes
12min
In a goosebump-replete episode, Jodi takes us into the low-lit room with the brutally tortured Afghani refugee Bibi Aisha. A Playbox exclusive.
EP 8: Building Intimacy
19min
Discover the skill of building intimacy with your subject as Jodi imparts the bridge to conversation and connection within a shoot.
EP 9: Between Dogs and Wolves
14min
Jodi teaches what truly sits behind the lens of the human struggle: what it feels like, what it tastes like, what it cries like and how it photographs.
About your Coach
Jodi Bieber
From processing SA’s first Democratic Elections in 1994 in the darkroom at The Star, to capturing the world’s attention with a TIME Magazine Cover of Bibi Aisha that earned her The World Press Photo of The Year in 2010 — and countless iconic images in-between — she is Jodi Bieber.
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