This online course on the didactics of the reading of photographic images offers a structured approach, documented by online and offline material, of most of the issues raised by the analysis of photographic images.

The target audience of this course are not scholars or specialists in the field, but beginning students and all those with a broad and general interest in photography and eager to start up a project within the Photherel framework.

You can read and study this online course in a linear way, but it also possible to browse it in a non-linear way using the index to navigate to your topic(s) of choice.

The work on these Notes was completed on September 1st 2005.

Acknowledgements: Many people -students, colleagues, friends, readers- have helped during the actual draft of this by definition never ending work in progress. Readers willing to comment on this online course can do so by contacting the author, Jan Baetens.