Exploring Collage: Digital and Traditional Practice

Collage is more than a visual remix—it’s a method of reclaiming images, reframing context, and revealing new meaning. By cutting, combining, and reworking found photographs, artists challenge photographic history, disrupt established frameworks, and reshape the way we see the world.

In this new five-session online workshop, photographer and artist Natalie Krick examines the relationship between photography and collage. The course explores how manipulating archival and found photographs can shift visual culture and open up space for critical commentary. Through a series of assignments, you work with both analog and digital techniques—including cut-and-paste collage, in-camera image manipulation, and digital montage in Adobe Photoshop.

As the workshop progresses, you begin to merge digital and physical techniques, uncovering how meaning transforms when images move between mediums. The workshop includes readings, image reviews, and conversations around appropriation, authorship, and the power of subversion. You build a personal image archive and study the work of contemporary artists who use collage as a radical form of storytelling.

This workshop centers on experimentation, image-making, and thoughtful dialogue, offering new tools for artists looking to break apart and reconstruct the visual language around them.