If you are looking for affordable photography classes, I highly recommend PhotoManhattan. The teachers are very enthusiastic and clearly love what they are doing. They will stay after class as well as meet students on other days. They are very flexible and accomodating.
Intro to Photography and Intro to Darkroom are regularly available. I took those as well as Photography 2 and was very pleased with the dedication of the teachers and the price I paid - much more affordable than other places in town.
There are two different Intro to Photography classes - a nine week class, which has a student exhibition at the end and a more compact five week class without an exhibition. (Of course, if you want to exhibit your work and invite your friends to come to the studio to see, the organization is more than happy to help its five week students with that.) The exhibition is a lot of fun with wine and crackers. It's great to be around a lot of people who enjoy doing the same thing.
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