Photography, like any visual art, is really about learning to see. The photography courses offered at Tabor emphasize this while teaching the mechanics of capturing images with a camera. The beginning course introduces students to the camera and the darkroom and the creative use of their controls. The more advanced courses refine the technical and expand the abstract.

While recognizing that photography is an art, it is also important to realize the dominance of it in today’s media rich society. A second level course, Photography as Communications does just this by exploring photography in advertising and photojournalism.

Tabor has shown its commitment to expanding the program by hiring a full time photography teacher and by allowing the program to grow from one course to four. The B&W facility is capable of handling seven students in each course and is busy with a full course load of four photography blocks per day. In the afternoon the lab is used for an after school photography program and by the various school publication photographers.

Exhibits and Opportunities

Students who have completed the first level course are always welcome to use the darkroom facilities.  

Black and White exhibitions of students' works are hung throughout the campus during the year.

The Tabor Log, the student run newspaper, has two students working as photographers instead of participating in a sport during each sports trimester.

The Fore ‘N’ Aft, the schools yearbook, employs a staff of photographers throughout the year.

The Photo Pool has students working as digital photographers instead of participating in a sport during each sports trimester. Their work is prominently used throughout the Admissions brochure, the Tabor Academy Web- site and in other school publications.

Many students also use the senior project program as a venue to continue their work in photography.