Photography workshop for students

Social Fabric Collective, a nonprofit organization that provides professional photography equipment and education to young adults, will hold an intensive small-group workshop for 10 local high school students from July 16-20 at Palo Alto High School’s Media Arts Center.

All participating students — who must be either entering their freshman year, currently enrolled in high school or just graduated — will receive some form of financial aid with the majority receiving full scholarships. Three scholarship opportunities still remain for the Palo Alto workshop.

The five-day camp will include technical lessons, creative exercises, critiques and seminars by John Freeman Todd, a team photographer for the San Jose Earthquakes, licensed psychologist Chaniga Vorasarun and architect and designer Gregory Mottola. Each student will be loaned their own digital camera for the duration of the workshop which they will use for evening shooting assignments.

A scholarship application form is currently on the organization’s website. To qualify for a full scholarship, a student’s family income must be less than $135,000. For a mid-level scholarship, a student’s family income must be less than $250,000 and remaining tuition for the workshop figures to $350. For a partial scholarship, a student’s family income must be less than $250,000 and tuition will be $650.

Palo Alto native Jamie Smith founded SFC in 2014, seeking to empower students through photography and introduce them to new ways of thinking and storytelling. The organization is based out of Northeastern Pennsylvania and regularly holds small-group workshops for young adults.

Information about the workshop and a scholarship application form can be found at SFC.