Alumni News
MFA Photography 2014 Alumni Gabriel Sanchez Selected as a Juror in 2019 Daylight Photo Awards
MFA Photography 2014 Alumni Gabriel Sanchez has been selected as a Juror for the 2019 Daylight Photo Awards!
We encourage Parsons students and alumni to submit to the 2019 Daylight Photo Awards. The winner will receive $1000, a digital feature and a chance to have their project considered for publication. Previous Daylight Photo Award winners include Zhang Kechun, Bryan Schutmaat, Aaron Vincent Elkaim,Tamas Dezso and Katrin Koenning.
SUBMISSION DEADLINE MAY 1, 2019
BFA Photography Alumni Kambui Olujimi Presents SKYWRITERS & CONSTELLATIONS at the Newark Museum
BFA Photography alumni Kambui Olujimi presents SKYWRITERS & CONSTELLATIONS, a solo exhibition at the Newark Museum. SKYWRITERS will premiere in the museum’s Dreyfuss Planetarium along with CONSTELLATIONS, a series of lithographs, debuting in the Garden Passage. Both works build on the narratives of Olujimi’s 2012 novella, Wayward North. Kambui Olujimi is a Brooklyn native whose multi-disciplinary practice calls attention to the assumptions that underlie our understanding of the world at large. The Opening Reception will be held on Saturday, November 3rd from 5pm – 7pm. RSVP ahead of time by emailing rsvp@newarkmuseum.org with the Subject “Skywriters”. 
Special Events for Alumni/Students of Color: 10/21 Community Brunch, 10/26 Portfolio Review, 10/27 Exhibition Closing Reception
(under)REPRESENT(ed) Community BrunchSaturday, October 21 from 11am-2pm6 East 16th Street, Wolff Conference Room 1103Alumni of color and Students of color are invited to break bread, reflect and strategize around experiences of race and identity at Parsons and within creative industries.
Please RSVP: tinyurl.com/underrepresentedbrunch
Fb event:……………………………..(under)REPRESENT(ed) Portfolio ReviewsThursday, October 26 from 6-8pmStarr Foundation Hall- 63 Fifth Ave (UC), Lower levelStudents of color are invited to receive critical feedback on work that addresses race and identity from alumni of color.Please RSVP: tinyurl.com/underrepresentedreview
……………………………..(under)REPRESENT(ed) ClosingFriday, October 27 at 6 PM – 8 PM66 Fifth Avenue, Arnold and Sheila Aronson GalleriesExhibiting alumni reflect on their work. Open to the public.For more information, visit: underrepresented.parsons.edu or email us at underrepresented@newschool.edu.
(under)REPRESENT(ed) to Open at Sheila C. Design Center
October 17, 6-8 PM
Sheila C. Design Center, Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries
66 5th Ave, Ground Floor
New York, NY 10003
Closing reception with artist talk: October 27th, 6-8pm
(under)REPRESENT(ed) is an exhibition that features Parsons School of Design alumni of color whose creative practices explore the lived experience of race and aim to dismantle systems of racism. Initiated and organized by a collective of alumni of color, this exhibition features a range of disciplines which simultaneously address and resist the systemic exclusion that prevails in educational and professional institutions and practices.
A video from a digital and physical archive that affirms the future of people of African descent; a design research project lessens the impact of hurricane season on one alum’s hometown in the Dominican Republic; a children’s book fable reveals an allegory of the dangerous journey migrants often face to enter the United States; an online syllabus resource explores the intersections of fashion and race; photographs reflect on the historic status symbol and power of hair in Korean culture, which resonates in communities across the globe; and a multimedia project promotes citizen journalism and challenges the normalization of police violence.
“We are moved by an urgency to foreground the power generated by creative practices,” said the curators of the exhibition. “Our own experience as students, practicing artists, designers, educators and cultural organizers tells us that this work isn’t always given its due criticism or celebration in the classroom and other institutional spaces.”
People of color have been pioneers in fields of art and design, although they continue to be significantly underrepresented in positions of power and compensation. Despite the rich foundational contributions by Black, Latinx, Asian, and Indigenous communities to these industries, they are often rendered invisible. The curators of this exhibition stake a claim for the centrality of those most deeply impacted by these oppressive frameworks in an era which challenges our existing tools of resistance.
The Parsons alumni featured in the exhibition are (AMT Alums in bold):
Salome Asega, MFA Design and Technology ’14
Rikki Byrd, MA Fashion Studies ’16
Raquel de Anda, MS Design and Urban Ecologies ’15
Nelson de Jesus Ubri, BFA Architectural Design ’15
Patricia Encarnación, BFA Communication Design ’14
Noelle Flores Théard, MFA Photography ’14
Scherezade Garcia, BFA Illustration ’90
Alston Green, CGRD Illustration ’72
Kim Jenkins, MA Fashion Studies ’13
Leslie Jimenez, BFA Fine Arts ’12
Sara Jimenez, MFA Fine Arts ’13
Yuni Kim Lang, BFA Communication Design ’09
Jeana Lindo, BFA Photography ’17
Joy McKinney, MFA Photography ’14
Joiri Minaya, BFA Fine Arts ’13
Ron Morrison, MS Design and Urban Ecologies ’15
Inyegumena Nosegbe, BFA Communication Design ’16
Ayodamola Okunseinde, MFA Design and Technology ’15
Isaac Paris, BFA Communication Design ’78
Kaitlynn Redell, MFA Fine Arts ’13
Jeff Staple, Illustration
Ken Tanabe, MFA Design and Technology ’04
James Terrell, MFA Painting ’02
Duncan Tonatiuh, BFA Integrated Design Curriculum ’08, BA Liberal Arts ’08
Robert Liu-Trujillo, BFA Illustration ’10
Christopher Udemezue, BFA Integrated Design Curriculum ’08
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Organized by a collective of Parsons Alumni of Color
Havanna Fisher, BFA Fashion Design ’14, BA The Arts ’14
Scherezade García, BFA Illustration ’90
Joelle Riffle, BFA Communication Design ’13
Yelaine Rodríguez, BFA Fashion Design ’13
Sable Elyse Smith, MFA Design and Technology ’13
Nadia Williams, BFA Fashion Design ’01
(under)REPRESENT(ed) equity + social justice advisor: Gail Drakes
(under)REPRESENT(ed) research assistant: Claudine Brantley, BFA Candidate of Photography ’18
(under)REPRESENT(ed) research assistant: Barbara Byrd, BFA Fine Arts ’17
Contact us at underrepresented@newschool.edu
The exhibition will run from October 14, when an opening reception for Parsons alumni will be held, until October 29.
More info here.
Parsons Photography Alumni Jeana Lindo (BFA), Noelle Flores Theard (MFA), and Joy Mckinney (MFA) Exhibiting Work in (under)REPRESENT(ed) Exhibition
Parsons Photography Alumni Jeana Lindo (BFA), Noelle Flores Theard (MFA), and Joy Mckinney (MFA) will be exhibiting work in the upcoming (under)REPRESENT(ed) Exhibition which is an exhibition that features Parsons alumni of color whose creative practices explore the lived experience of race and aim to dismantle systems of racism. The exhibition opens to the public on October 17, 2017 from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. You can read more on the exhibition and RSVP here.
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center
Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries
66 Fifth Ave
Parsons School of Design
Photography Faculty Thomas Werner and Parsons Alumni in “The Threads That Bind”
Parsons School for Design Photography Program alumni Fan Chen, Therese Ohrvall, Jessica Richmond, Media Studies alumni Diana Khong, and Communication Design student Whitney Badge comprise the exhibition The Threads That Bind, on view through October 22nd in the State Museum of the History of St Petersburg Poterna Exhibition Hall. The exhibition was curated by Photography faculty member Thomas Werner.
The work for the exhibition was created during a 10 day grant funded visit to Saint Petersburg to create work focusing on seven local museums.
“Fact & Fiction” 2017 Team America BFA Photo and Media Studies Alumni with Thomas Werner
Photography Faculty Thomas Werner with BFA Photo Alumni Fan Chen, Therese Ohrvall, Jessica Richmond, and MFA Media Studies alumni Diana Khong.
On the celebratory boat ride after wrapping up 10 days of work with 7 museums in Saint Petersburg, Russia for “Fact & Fiction”, the 2017 Contemporary Art in Traditional Museums exhibition. The team from America is Fan Chen, Diana Khong, Tessi Öhrvall, Jess Richmond and Thomas Werner. Also pictured is our indispensable colleague and guide Anastasia Rozhkova. Travel and production were grant funded in their entirety by BFA Photography faculty member Thomas Werner. The exhibition will open in late September at the State Museum of the History of St Petersburg, Peter and Paul Fortress, Poterna Exhibition Hall.
Lizzy Oppenheimer and Mark Lim Launching Print of Nicotine Magazine
BFA Alumni Lizzy Oppenheimer and Mark Lim are launching the print version of their fashion magazine Nicotine. You can read the press release below.
Daisy Korpics (BFA Photography 2016) Featured in Musee Magazine
BFA Photography Alumni (’16) Daisy Korpics has recently been featured in Musee Magazine to discuss her both series “Disquiet’ and “568”.
You can read the interview here.
Andy Egelhoff (BFA Photo 17) Featured in GUP Magazine
Andy Egelhoff (BFA Photo 17) was recently featured in GUP (Guide to Unique Photography) Magazine.
You can read the feature here.
BFA Photo Alumna Chuck Grant Featured in NYT
BFA Photo Alumna Chuck Grant (’12) was recently featured on The New York Times website, under the Fashion & Style section
You can read the feature here
For Chuck’s work you can visit her website here
Alumna Elena Montemurro (BFA Photo ’13) Featured in i-D magazine
BFA Photography graduate Elena Montemurro was recently featured by i-D magazine for her coming-of-age photo series. You can see her feature here and visit her website here.
Megan Paetzhold (BFA Photo ’16) Exhibits at The Aperture Foundation in “Photography is Magic”
Aperture Summer Open is an annual open-submission exhibition at Aperture Foundation’s gallery that features a wide variety of work drawn from members of our photographic community. Selected annually by a prominent curator or editor, the exhibition seeks to reveal and report on critical themes and trends driving international contemporary photographic practice. The exhibition opens the doors of the Foundation to all photographers, both well- and lesser-known, as it fosters and promotes new ideas and talent.
Paetzhold will be exhibiting work from her series Studies in: Ambylopia
Show Opening:
Thursday July 14th, 6-8pm at the Aperture Foundation
Ryan James Caruthers (BFA Photo ’16) Featured in Huffington Post Arts
“Photographer Ryan James Caruthers’ self-portrait of himself in a wrestling uniform is a stark departure from that norm. His shape is long and skinny, pale and delicate. His eyes are shut, his arms raised, his face resting somewhere between exhaustion and ecstasy. Blood drips from his nostril like a violent omen. In this striking photograph, Caruthers’ expression resembles that of St. Theresa more than the traditional classical Greek sculptures used to embody athletic masculinity. ”
Queer Photographer Revisits Traumatic High School Sports Tryouts In Stunning Series
Jess Richmond (BFA Photo ’16) Wins Grand Prize in PDN 2016 Edition of The Curator
“The Madness of Many” is a self-portrait series by Jess Richmond depicting her and her imagined twin sister, Connie. Each image is an illusion that is constructed in-camera, toying with spatial relationships, familial relationships and the picture plane.
Adrian Lam, BFA Photo Alumni, Helps Launch New High End Lifestyle Site, RealClearLife
RealClearLife is a guide to a life well lived. As the men’s lifestyle affiliate of RealClearPolitics, RealClearLife curates and creates the world’s most striking images and ideas, commissions top new content, and keeps our audience connected to the best of the world around them.
Visit RealClearLife for more information.
Parsons Alumni and Faculty to Exhibit in Queens International Exhibition
Sylvia Hardy (MFA Photography ’12), Magali Duzant (MFA Photography ’14) and Shadi Harouni (Faculty in Fine Arts) Exhibiting in Queens International 2016, the Queens Museum’s biannual exhibition of artists living or working in Queens, NY. The show highlights and contextualizes the artistic vibrancy of the borough through cultural productions in all media. The seventh iteration looks to the idea of thresholds and the way spaces for transition, contact, and exchange operate. These notions of borders and acts of border-crossing are also characterized by collaborations with Trans-Pecos, an alternative music venue, and Ayham Ghraowi, designer and creative director for the exhibition’s multi-outlet publishing platform.
The Opening Reception is taking place on April 10, 4PM – 8PM
Queens International 2016 is organized by guest curator Lindsey Berfond and Queens Museum Director of Exhibitions Hitomi Iwasaki.
Participants
Manal Abu-Shaheen
Vahap Avşar
Jesus Benavente and Felipe Castelblanco
Brian Caverly
Kerry Downey
Magali Duzant
Golnaz Esmaili
Mohammed Fayaz
Kate Gilmore
Jonah Groeneboer
Bang Geul Han and Minna Pöllänen
Dave Hardy
Sylvia Hardy
Shadi Harouni
Janks Archive
Robin Kang
Kristin Lucas
Carl Marin
Eileen Maxson
Melanie McLain
Shane Mecklenburger
Lawrence Mesich
Freya Powell
Xiaoshi Vivian Vivian Qin
Alan Ruiz
Samita Sinha and Brian Chase
Barb Smith
Monika Sziladi
Alina Tenser
Trans-Pecos (with 8 Ball Community, ESP TV, and Chillin Island)
Mark Tribe
Sam Vernon
Max Warsh
Jennifer Williams
Kambui Olujimi (BFA Photo ’02) Exhibits Solastalgia at CUE Art Foundation
Curated by Hank Willis Thomas
CUE Art Foundation
137 W 25th St, New York, NY 10001
Opening: April 7, 2016, 6-8 PM
On view from April 7-May 12
Kambui Olujimi presents the opening of Solastalgia at the CUE Art Foundation. The exhibition includes large-scale sculptures, silkscreens, and paintings. The works in the show reside at the intersection of numerous issues of current concern to me: the condition of New York City and the nation including gentrification, police killings (both by and of the police), as well as the challenges of commemoration and loss.
The term solastalgia was coined by Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht in 2003. Essentially it is the feeling of homesickness when one is still home. “Solastalgia is when your endemic sense of place is being violated,” Albrecht describes. Though the term originally references the psychological displacement of farmers due to climate change, I use it as a lens to examine the psychological dynamics tied to the rapidly changing five boroughs.
BFA Photo Alumni Mark Fitton featured on Fotografia Magazine
Mark Fitton’s Intimate Photos of His Parents Explore New Paths for the Parent-Child Relationship
Read the full interview and see his work here: http://fotografiamagazine.com/close-mark-fitton/
Kambui Olujimi (BFA Photo ’02) Exhibits At CUE Art Foundation and the NADA Art Fair
Opening April 7, 2016, Kambui Olujimi presents, Solastalgia, a solo show with the CUE Art Foundation. The exhibition includes large-scale sculptures, silkscreens, and paintings. The works in the show reside at the intersection of numerous issues of current concern to me: the condition of New York City and the nation including gentrification, police killings (both by and of the police), as well as the challenges of commemoration and loss.
The term solastalgia was coined by Australian philosopher Glenn Albrecht in 2003. Essentially it is the feeling of homesickness when one is still home. “Solastalgia is when your endemic sense of place is being violated,” Albrecht describes. Though the term originally references the psychological displacement of farmers due to climate change, I use it as a lens to examine the psychological dynamics tied to the rapidly changing five boroughs.
Olujimi will also exhibit with collaborator Camilo Alvarex and Samson Projects for the NADA Art Fair in May and September at the Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco.
MFA Photography Alumni Book Release
MFA Photo Alum Magali Duzant announces the release of her first artist book, I Looked & Looked, published by Conveyor Editions. The book will be launching at the NY Art Book Fair at PS1 this week ( Sept 18-20 ).
She’ll be doing a signing on Saturday, September 19th at 3 pm ( Conveyor Editions, Table Q05 ).
“The book has been a labor of love and I’m so excited to be able to share it. On September 25, 1923, Georgia O’Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz wrote each other love letters containing a description of the full moon. Inspired by the synchronicity of this romantic exchange, I asked twenty individuals to describe the full moon on October 29, 2012, from their vantage points across the country. The surprise of Hurricane Sandy led to wildly varying accounts of a single sky. I Looked & Looked weaves these narratives together with a series of my images in a lyrical reflection on the natural world as a source of interconnectedness.”
The book will be available for purchase here : www.conveyoreditions.com
An official release party will coincide with the 3 year anniversary of Hurricane Sandy next month, details and invitation to come.
In addition, she will have a limited edition print available at Conveyor’s table.
Upcoming Exhibitions in Australia
Duzant will also be in Australia for two exhibitions in Tasmania and Sydney as well as a Visiting Artist position at Parramatta Artist Studios, and running an abbreviated version of Live Streaming Sunset for the Parramatta Lanes Festival alongside video work by the Australian artist Ella Condon.
Find out more at magaliduzant.com.
INTERVIEW WITH MONET LUCKI (BFA PHOTO ’13)
WHERE DO YOU CURRENTLY CALL HOME TODAY?
Brooklyn, New York
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR CURRENT PRACTICE?
Photographer, Visual Artist
WHO AND/OR WHAT INSPIRE YOU IN YOUR WORK?
My inspiration comes from a variety of sources such as sound art, dominant facial features, light, color, counter contemporary culture, international culture, science fiction, raw emotive states, cinema, video clips, contemporary art and technological evolutions.
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENT?
This question is difficult as almost every experience within this past year has been monumental and exciting. But overall, right now feels like the most memorable period of my career, for it is just the beginning of an unknown journey ahead.
HOW DO YOU EARN YOUR LIVING?
I currently work full time managing the art department at Ford Models. Aside from my day job, I freelance doing various projects such as retouching, DP work, video editing, production assisting, directing, and photographing for various commercial and editorial clients.
DESCRIBE YOUR EXPERIENCE AT PARSONS
My experience at Parsons will forever impact my artistic development and perception of the world.
WHAT IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT THING YOU LEARNED AT THE PARSONS?
Parsons, as I’ve learned post-graduation, excelled at maintaining a contemporary, forward thinking environment and provided accomplished professionals as our professors whom guided us to further evolve into independent artistic intellects ourselves.
WHAT ADVICE DO YOU HAVE FOR CURRENT STUDENTS, ABOUT THEIR TIME IN THE PROGRAM OR THEIR CAREERS?
I advise students to get involved in their visual interests outside of school and to consider homework a challenge to experiment, push boundaries, and initiate personal discoveries within their medium. I advise to take advantaged of the wide range of courses that are available. Even if a course doesn’t pertain directly to your major, I encourage students to explore their readily available education. Now I realize every course I took provided subconscious forms of inspiration, which I grew accustomed to implement throughout creative processes.
LOOKING BACK WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO THE STUDENTS JUST ABOUT TO GRADUATE OR OUR VERY RECENT GRADUATES?
I would advise upcoming graduating students to plan ways of transitioning their passions into careers and to start sooner than later that is.
“The Concurrents” Staff Artist Lecture Series w/ Jennifer Soong & Joy McKinney – Thurs. April 2nd
The first installment of The Concurrents lecture series, featuring Jennifer Soong from the School of Art and Design History and Theory, and Joy McKinney from the School of Constructed Environments, is happening on Thursday, April 2, at 12:00 pm, in the Bark Orientation Room (2 W 13th Street, 1st floor).
Jennifer Soong is a poet originally from New Jersey. She began as a visual artist before going on to earn degrees in English and Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. She has written extensively on Elizabeth Bishop and draws her influences primarily from the mid-generation American poets. She is interested in the relationship between text and image and is the recipient of numerous awards including the Joan Untermyer Poetry Prize.
Joy Mckinney is a photographer based in NYC. She received her undergraduate degree from the Atlanta College of Art and her MFA in photography from Parsons The New School for Design. Her work explores social and cultural attitudes towards gender and race through photography and video.
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Organized by Niki Kriese of AMT, the second iteration of the staff lecture series is collaborative in focus, pairing like-minded but vigorously independent artists from across Parsons to co-present and discuss their investigations. Events will range from screenings to performance to readings, with each artist crafting their own level of engagement with the audience. Similar themes, such as generosity, human interaction, and movement emerge in their work, but the excitement comes from seeing the distinct approaches and viewpoints collide.
For more information, please contact Niki Kriese kriesen@newschool.edu
INTERVIEW WITH CASEY DOROBEK (BFA PHOTO ’14)
WHERE DO YOU CURRENTLY CALL HOME TODAY?
I live in Brooklyn, New York.
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOUR CURRENT PRACTICE?
Thus far, it’s been a continuous cycle of reading, photographing, and editing. But what I am beginning to deeply enjoy is meeting with artists that want to publish work, and helping them bring their ideas to fruition.
WHO AND/OR WHAT INSPIRE YOU IN YOUR WORK?
Just walking around, in and of itself, provides quite a bit of stimulation and inspiration. I am constantly reading and listening to music, as well. Sebald, Borges, Carver, Robbins, MF DOOM, Meredith Monk, Madlib, Sun Ra–a lot of fiction, jazz, and experimental music.
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST PROFESSIONAL ACCOMPLISHMENT?
Some things have panned out, but the accomplishments I have my mind on are long term and haven’t been completed yet.
HOW DO YOU EARN YOUR LIVING?
I am currently working as a photographer and archivist at a gallery in Soho. Beyond that, I freelance photographing artwork and publish, with a very close collaborator, different artists’ works under our publishing imprint, RITA.
DESCRIBE YOUR EXPERIENCE AT PARSONS
It was an excellent experience. There are a lot of great minds at Parsons.
WHAT IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT THING YOU LEARNED AT THE PARSONS?
That an art education is an augmentation of your perspective on the world. This extends beyond art–any form of successful education changes the way one sees themselves and what exists around them.
WHAT ADVICE DO YOU HAVE FOR CURRENT STUDENTS, ABOUT THEIR TIME IN THE PROGRAM OR THEIR CAREERS?
I am not in a place to give much advice. All I can say is to trust your intuition, take in as much as possible, and be kind and critical. More logistically speaking, invest all of your money into your practice. Whenever I come across some money, it always gets spent on books, supplies, equipment–the money always comes back.
LOOKING BACK WHAT ADVICE WOULD YOU GIVE TO THE STUDENTS JUST ABOUT TO GRADUATE OR OUR VERY RECENT GRADUATES?
Create your own opportunities, and in Bukowski’s words, don’t try. Just trust yourself, create what you’d like–it may have success now, it may have success in 20 or 100 years.
MFA Photo Alum Eric Madigan Heck’s Exhibition and Book Signing Tuesday, 2/17
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Exhibition and Book Signing
NEUEHOUSE
Be sure to rsvp to NEUEHOUSE@NADINEJOHNSON.COM
BFA Photo Alumni Kambui Olujimi in Crossing Brookyln Exhibition
BFA Photo Alumni Kambui Olujimi will be featured in the Crossing Brooklyn exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum this Fall.
Crossing Brooklyn
Curated by Eugenie Tsai and Rujeko Hockley
Liz Arenberg (BFA Photo ’03) profiled in Lenscratch
REVIEW SANTA FE: LIZ ARENBERG: YOU SEE ME by Aline Smithson
One of my favorite portfolios at Review Santa Fe was the project, You See Me, by Liz Arenberg. The prints were sumptuous and her ability to orchestrate light, color, and subject matter resulted in a series that I can’t stop thinking about. You See Me affirms the often difficult connection between sibilings but at the same time is a beautiful tribute to familial bonds, to the recognition of self, using the mirror of each sibling to reflect and celebrate two individuals.
Liz is a photographer and educator living in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA in Photographer at Parsons School of Design in 2003, where she received honorable mention for the DataColor Scholarship for her series craigslist.org. In 2011, she received her MFA in Photography, Video & Related Media from the School of Visual Arts. Her series “you see me” was featured in PDN 2011 Annual. Most recently, Liz was a participant in the Eddie Adams workshop and a fellow at the Vermont Studio Center. Currently, Liz partnered with Galerie Vevais to produce a book of her portraiture.
View full profile and artist statement here.
BFA Photo Alumni Featured in aPhotoEditor
Personal work, from the series “Three Graces”, photographed in Sweden.
Therese Öhrvall and Joel Jägerroos are a Swedish-Finnish photography team, who met while studying at Parsons Paris, and later transferred to Parsons in NYC, where they graduated from.
Check out the awesome interview and a selection of their work here.
Jeff Brown (BFA Photo ’08) Chosen as one of PDN’s 30 New and Emerging Photographers to Watch.
JEFF BROWN developed his cinematic, stylized look as a student at Parsons. He wanted his work to stand out at a time when flat, desaturated images are the rage, and also emphasize what he sees as photography’s artifice. By photographing his subjects this way, he says, “You can see them look as they’d never look in front of your face.”
His work impressed the photo editors he met at a Parsons portfolio review, but those connections took a long time to bear fruit. After graduation he worked as a digital tech for a catalogue house; assisted; shot assignments for Overflow, a local magazine edited by a friend; and pursued personal projects. In 2012, Clinton Cargill of The New York Times Magazine contacted him out of the blue to find out what he’d been up to since graduation. Brown said he was busy remaking his portfolio; “I fibbed,” he admits. Over the next three weeks he updated his website, portfolio and business cards. His meeting with The Times Magazine photo staff led to assignments and referrals to other editors.
After she noticed Brown’s work on Instagram, Bloomberg Businessweek’s Alis Atwell hired him to apply his hot-light look both to portraits (including a photo of a Queen Elizabeth lookalike) and to food shots inspired by old cookbooks. “There’s something vintage about his work,” she explains. “It seems much more alive in a way that other people’s work is not.” He continues to add both still-life and portrait work to his portfolio.
See more here
For more information visit PDN’s website here
2008 BFA Photo alum named one of Photo District New’s 30 to watch in 2014!
Jeff Brown, a 2008 BFA Photography alum, was just named one of Photo District New’s 30 to watch in 2014! Jeff’s clients include The New York Times Magazine, Fast Company, Bloomberg Businessweek, WIRED and M Le Magazine du Monde. Read more at Photo District News!
