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Meg Bitton Teaches the Art of Vision

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Published
04/08/2024

It might sound simplistic to say that photography is about vision. But we’re talking not just about the subject-light-image-retina chain reaction that causes us to see an object in space. We’re also talking about photography as a means of capturing a flicker of beauty or truth in time. It’s a way of preserving our personal histories and all the moments that have become precious to us, even as our own memories of those moments crumble under the weight of years. Vision in photography is more than just the physical process of seeing. It’s a way of seeing that can change the world. 

From the invention of the camera obscura in antiquity to da Vinci’s clear articulation of its workings in 1502, to the digital equipment we use today, photography has always evolved as both an art and a science. And with each of its evolutions, this art form has allowed us to build new bridges from the visual world straight into the human soul.

 

Technical precision to light the fire of creativity

These insights are a big part of professional photographer Meg Bitton’s vision. An acclaimed photographer especially known for depicting the subtleties of children’s expressions in expertly sculpted prints, Meg Bitton is also a popular instructor in both in-person and online classes and tutorials. 

Her students have learned everything from the basics of photography, to composition, to the finer points of Photoshop editing to achieve magic light, rainbow tonal separation, and a range of other sophisticated effects. The affordable tutorials she offers on her website cover multiple digital editing techniques, and she also provides instruction in starting and running a photography business.  

Meg Bitton’s classes, powered by her two decades of experience and self-tutelage, help her students take their technical skills to new levels of artistic perception, creativity, and insight. Her goal is to help every aspiring photographer she works with form their own sense of photographic vision. 

That vision comes alive when a photographer realizes their own power as a creator: the power to interpret the world for others, allowing viewers to feel the full sense of its visual textures, and to be touched emotionally by the interplay of its loveliness and roughness, light and darkness, sorrow and joy. Through the magic of their creative vision, a skillful photographer is able to preserve these moments of life-changing magic in the human story and transmit them to audiences across a chain of vision unbounded by time or space. 

 

Persistence of vision

It doesn’t even matter where a particular student is on the road to accomplishment. The most casual hobbyist, as well as the most seasoned practitioner, all have access to the transformative power of vision in photography. Each student and professional represents yet another step forward in the evolution of the art, each one contributing what they can with the skills and the perspective they have gained up to that moment.

Each photographer working in this community has universes of visual stories to tell, each of which holds within it a potential spark of revolution in the way the world sees. A photograph can open a human mind or heart, forge a new connection for someone, give someone the inspiration to fulfill their dreams, or support their determination to hang on for just one more day in order to recover their own light. 

To borrow Franz Kafka’s description of what he thought a book should be, a photograph should wake us up, make us see and feel more deeply, and be “the axe for the frozen sea within us.”

That’s why Meg Bitton seeks to inspire her students to dream in big, bold visions, to show their work often, talk about it, and lift up their own work and that of other photographers in a true creative community. 

Do you have a vision? The world is waiting for you. 

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