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If you’re a parent in Bergen County or Rockland County looking for a meaningful teen summer program, Focus Frame might be exactly what your teen needs. This one-week photography workshop isn’t your typical summer camp. It’s a hands-on, creative lab where teens learn real DSLR photography skills, explore visual storytelling, and build the confidence to express themselves through images.
Created by Bergen County-based photographer and former art educator Julia Chang-Lomonico, this program is designed for high schoolers who may have outgrown traditional camps but still crave something engaging and creative to do this summer. Focus Frame blends structure with freedom—offering just enough guidance for skill-building while allowing students to pursue their own point of view.
With only 10 spots available in this founding round, it’s an opportunity to not only join, but help shape, a truly original teen summer program built specifically for the needs of creative teens in our area.
All she wants for Mother’s Day is just one good photo—one where she’s not behind the camera, not managing chaos, but right there in the frame with the people she loves most. This spring, give her that photo (and more) with a peaceful, private mini session in Masker Orchards during peak apple blossom season in the New York Hudson Valley area. These short and sweet sessions include a professionally printed and matted photo shipped right to your door—so she doesn’t just get the memory, she gets to holdit.
Julia Chang-Lomonico is a family photographer in Northern New Jersey. Located in Bergen County, Julia is available for photography services in the NYC metro area (NY, NJ, CT). Julia specializes in Day in the Life, kids and family, and small event photography.
I did a thing that was completely outside my comfort zone. I was recently interviewed on the Documentary Family Photographers Community podcast by the wonderful Heather Whitten, and we talked all about Photographing Adolescence.
We dug into how my homeschooling journey shaped my approach to photography, why I’ve become more drawn to photographing teens, and the impact of advice I’ve received from Nyack based therapist Maskit and clinical psychologist Lisa Damour in doing this work thoughtfully.
This conversation means a lot to me. It’s personal, a little vulnerable, and full of the kinds of things I wish more people talked about when it comes to parenting and photographing teens.