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Photo Faculty Michelle Bogre to Curate in China
In Photography as Activism, Michelle Bogre discusses the philosophy and history of how activists and social reformers have used the camera as a research tool and instrument for social reform. Beginning with the invention of the camera, the book traces the earliest instances of photographic activism through to today’s emerging practices, profiling the most prominent activists of their time and their legendary images. She includes in depth interviews with contemporary photographer activists, including:
- Eugene Richards
- Marcus Bleasdale
- Tom Stoddart
- Jonathan Torgovnik
- Edward Kashi
- Brent Stirton
- Stephen Dupont
- Walter Astrada
The book has been gaining attention again from the academic world, since it was chosen as the Common Reading at Rice University last Fall.
Other books by Michelle Bogre:
Photography 4.0: A Teaching Guide for the 21st Century
2014 Sony Photography Scholars announced
We are thrilled to announce the winners of our 2014 Sony Scholarship competition. The competition, open to all levels of BFA Photography, pulled from a large expanse of students working within fashion, documentary, fine art, narrative and experimental video work. Charlotte Cotton and Thomas Werner served as judges for this highly competitive opportunity.
The Sony Photography Scholars are:
Patricia Lopez Ramos, Art & Idea
Diego Campos, Fashion & Culture
Danielle MacZynski, Social Engagement
Kevin Aranibar Molina, Video
About the judges:
Charlotte Cotton is a visiting scholar at Parsons. She has held positions including head of the Wallis Annenberg Department of Photography at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, head of programming at The Photographers’ Gallery in London and curator of photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum. She is the author of The Photograph as Contemporary Art and founder of Words Without Pictures and Eitherand.org.
Thomas Werner is the former owner of Thomas Werner Gallery in Manhattan’s Chelsea Art District, currently lecturing internationally on topics of photography, fashion, education, and the art market. An Assistant Professor and past Photography Program Director at Parsons The New School for Design in New York, he has worked with the State Department as a cultural representative for the United States in Russia, and been a photography consultant for, COACH, Rodale Publishing, and numerous individual artists and photographers. Werner was a three time Director on the National Board of the American Society of Media Photographers, is the former President of ASMP’s New York Chapter, former President of the ASMP Foundation, and co-founder of ASMP’s nationwide Fine Art Specialty Group.
Diego Campos, Fashion & Culture
Kevin Aranibar Molina, video
(stills from “Inanimate Love”)
First Year BFA Photo Student Cameron Durham awarded YPA Scholarship
First Year BFA Photo Student Cameron Durham was one of three 2014 YPA (Young Photographers Alliance) Scholarship Award winners. To foster social and environmental responsibility in the photographers of tomorrow, scholarship recipients are selected not only for their ability and their need, but also for their demonstrated commitment to giving back to the larger community through their work. The judging panel for the awards comprised: Spencer Jones (President, Glasshouse Images & photographer), Bruce Katz (eminent architectural photographer), Tom Koken (World Studio Foundation), Mark Randall (World Studio Foundation) and Jerry Tavin (YPA Honorary Chairman & founder).
More of Cameron’s work can be seen on his website.
BFA Photo Student Andy Engelhoff Zine Launch and Exhibition at Parsons Paris Exhibition Space
Andy Egelhoff presented a selection of his work in the Parsons Paris gallery space from 27-29 November.
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This exhibition marked the launch of SPRKLBB; a zine project merging image and text. The zine itself is informed by the artist’s current work on queer spaces and communities. SPRKLBB is the first in a series of releases and projects currently being undertaken by the artist under the collective banner BB. BB will seek to provide space for artistic reflection on the current state of visibility for queer-identifying individuals on a global scale. Shot in Berlin on Portra 800 over a span of six months, SPRKLBB chronicles the artist’s experience of Berlin as a participant in the ongoing easyJet phenomena. Blurring the lines between participant and tourist, Andy’s trips explored the milieu of the German capital as it neared the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the unique politics concerning urban life, the queer community at the center of the city’s nightlife, and the darkness and vibrance that continue to mix as the cold war era attempts a return. |
Photo Faculty Katherine Hubbard Exhibition and Lecture-Performance at CAPRICIOUS 88
Katherine Hubbard
Four shoulders and thirty five percent everything else
Nov 9 – Dec 28, 2014
CAPRICIOUS 88
88 Eldridge Street, 5th FL
New York, NY 10002
Capricious 88 is proud to present Katherine Hubbard’s most recent work of black-and-white silver gelatin prints shot in southern Utah, entitled Four shoulders and thirty five percent everything else. A site she has explored for the past three years, the works set the stage for play between performance and image — placed within a desert landscape marked by sight lines that delineate the field of vision between two facing cameras. Hubbard uses her body to mark the space and depth of the landscape-stage while simultaneously marking the film plane.
A series of black-and-white landscape photographs made with multiple exposures and the compression of numerous points of view into a single frame will be shown in conjunction. Each image becomes a point of consideration in asking how we may look at land now. Four shoulders and thirty five percent everything else is of the belief that all looking is political, as each person does not see the same thing.
On Sunday, December 14th , Katherine Hubbard will present her lecture-performance, “Notes from Utah, Notes on Grey”, inside the gallery.
Katherine Hubbard is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is a photographer whose practice incorporates performance, sculpture, clothing, text and video. Her performance, A thing and its thing-ness. It’s all just nouns and adjectives baby, 2013, a deconstructed opera in response to historical invisibility was presented at the Museum of Art and Design in New York. Additionally, Hubbard’s work has been exhibited internationally at Renseriet, Stockholm, Sweden; University of Maryland Stamp Gallery, Maryland; Higher Pictures, NY and Murray Guy, NY. Hubbard maintains an ongoing collaboration with A.K. Burns exploring the history of queer esthetics, iterations of which have been exhibited at Recess, The Brooklyn Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art, all in New York. Recently, Hubbard and Burns have exhibited their collaborative works in NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial at The Museum of Art and Design, Walk-ins Welcome at Marlborough Gallery and As We Were Saying at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York. Forthcoming in 2015 she will present Small Town Sex Shop, a conceptual clothing project in collaboration with Savannah Knoop at Recess, NY. Hubbard has an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and is currently part-time faculty at Parsons The New School for Design.
Capricious 88, as an extension of Capricious Magazine, initiates experimentation while working with a variety of artists from emergent to established who use photography as their point of departure to seek out new vehicles of expression in sculpture, video, performance, or publications. The gallery is located on 88 Eldridge Street in Manhattan. For further information please contact Sophie Morner at info@Capricious88.com or visit our website at becapricious.com.
Parsons Photo Faculty Arthur Ou is showing work in Paris
Parsons Photo Faculty member Arthur Ou is showing work in Paris this month at a show called Me and Benjamin.
Xippas and M+B are pleased to announce Me and Benjamin, opening November 14 at Xippas in Paris. Renos, the owner of Xippas, invited Benjamin to curate a show at his Parisian gallery. In turn, Benjamin invited M+B artists to invite other artists—or curated group of artists—or artist run space. The artist run space would then perform an act of sub-curation where they organize a show within the larger show. The exhibition self-curates, bringing the distinctive energy and appeal of the Los Angeles art scene as it networks out across the North American continent and into Europe.
Located at the edge of the continent, in one of the last time zones and perched precariously on the Pacific Ocean, Los Angeles exists in a sense isolated from the major cosmopolitan centers of the world. And yet, artists continue to head west, settling into the vast, sprawling terrain, into the eclectic neighborhoods that networked together create this city. Los Angeles has a unique appeal and ability to foster strong knit artist communities and the burgeoning gallery scene, artist run spaces, alternative venues and shared studio spaces are what make the city relevant today. While cartographic dispersal defines this city, the importance and necessity of the networks that connect it stand out as defining. It is these strong artistic networks that Me and Benjamin—M+B—has sought to promote and expand upon.
Participating artists include Matthew Brandt, Jim Welling, Ken Tam, Phil Chang, Peter Holzhauer, Jessica Eaton, Whitney Hubbs, Cathy Opie, Larry Sultan, Dwyer Kilcollin, Nancy Lupo, Patrick Jackson, Pae White, Anthony Lepore, Michael Henry Hayden, Matthew Porter, Arthur Ou, Owen Kydd, John Houck, Moyra Davey, Alex Prager, Vanessa Prager, Mariah Roberston, David Benjamin Sherry, Hannah Whitaker, Ruby Sky Stiler, Jesse Stecklow, Favorite Goods: Orion Martin, Erin Jane Nelson, Kelly Akashi, Carlos Reyes and Aaron Angell.
Capricious 88 Gallery Featuring Photography Faculty Member Katherine Hubbard
Photography faculty member Katherine Hubbard will be featuring her latest work Four shoulders and thirty five percent everything else, at the Capricious Gallery in New York. Learn more about her upcoming exhibition below.
Opening November 9, from 6 – 8pm
Exhibition runs from November 9 – December 28, 2014
CAPRICIOUS 88
88 Eldridge Street, 5th FL
New York, NY 10002
Katherine Hubbard’s most recent work of black-and-white silver gelatin prints shot in southern Utah, is entitled Four shoulders and thirty five percent everything else. A site she has explored for the past three years, the works set the stage for play between performance and image — placed within a desert landscape marked by sight lines that delineate the field of vision between two facing cameras. Hubbard uses her body to mark the space and depth of the landscape-stage while simultaneously marking the film plane.
A series of black-and-white landscape photographs made with multiple exposures and the compression of numerous points of view into a single frame will be shown in conjunction. Each image becomes a point of consideration in asking how we may look at land now. Four shoulders and thirty five percent everything else is of the belief that all looking is political, as each person does not see the same thing.
BIO: Katherine Hubbard is an artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is a photographer whose practice incorporates performance, sculpture, clothing, text and video. Her performance, A thing and its thing-ness. It’s all just nouns and adjectives baby, 2013, a deconstructed opera in response to historical invisibility was presented at the Museum of Art and Design in New York. Additionally, Hubbard’s work has been exhibited internationally at Renseriet, Stockholm, Sweden; University of Maryland Stamp Gallery, Maryland; Higher Pictures, NY and Murray Guy, NY. Hubbard maintains an ongoing collaboration with A.K. Burns exploring the history of queer esthetics, iterations of which have been exhibited at Recess, The Brooklyn Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art, all in New York. Recently, Hubbard and Burns have exhibited their collaborative works in NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial at The Museum of Art and Design, Walk-ins Welcome at Marlborough Gallery and As We Were Saying at The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York. Forthcoming in 2015 she will present Small Town Sex Shop, a conceptual clothing project in collaboration with Savannah Knoop at Recess, NY. Hubbard has an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College and is currently part-time faculty at Parsons The New School for Design.
BFA Photo Student Sofia Colvin featured in Surface Magazine
BFA Photography student Sofia Colvin was featured in this months issue of Surface Magazine! Sofia’s work was selected as part of a group of 10 up and coming photographers. See the spread below!
Learn more about Sofia here.
PHOTOFEAST Exhibition on Now in the University Center Lobby
We asked each exhibitor to provide us with the answer to the question: How does your work confront the questions of truth versus fiction? Their answers below:
Exhibitor List (in oder of work shown):
Alex Kwok
I am fascinated by how photography romanticizes human relationships and its control, or perhaps its lack of, in representing truthfulness. This series plays with the authenticity of relationships between two individuals and the roles they consciously, and especially subconsciously, take upon that is otherwise indescribable without the photographic medium. These photographs presents an alternative reality where an intimate couple is isolated within their haven, but in fact, they are simply two strangers who invest an incredible amount of trust in one another, and are willing to be emotionally and physically vulnerable and exposed to another human being.
Alison Vania – Lady Alchemy
“Lady Alchemy” is a body of work that depicts this woman as an object of desire as she uses make-up and wardrobe to accentuate her appearance. Her career is based on her image and is dependent on creating an illusion of reality. In the Image the woman is posing on an elevated stage with one leg planted a step, accentuating her figure and creating a silhouette behind her that exudes sex. This image creates a juxtaposition of reality (the woman) and the perception of reality (the shadow).
Nicholai Kellman – untitled from ‘Parts Identity’
This images portrays the human form as it is without being manipulated but is seen differently due to the way light is being used. When removing the head of the figure, the form is altered changing the perception of what the true image may look like. This leads to question, is this image a true form being portrayed or an object being altered. My view on the subject is portraying true forms outside of their pre-perceived nature. A body without an identity can stand alone as a new form.
Phoebe Weinstein – diptych from ‘Finding Utopia’
This diptych is part of my series called, ‘Finding Utopia’. I titled it this as that is the best why in which I could describe my mind set. I am vocalizing the dream like state of mind that I have found myself in as an 18 year old growing up in a city (London). I do not think that these feelings of drowning, excitement and pressure are unusual to anyone that is about to experience ‘the real world’. I want this series of images to bring a light and comedic atmosphere to these feelings. I wanted ‘Finding Utopia’ to display both my dream world and the world of reality.
Qiren Hu – The Emperor Arrives
The Emperor Arrives series explores the Chinese Imperial dynasty’s legacy in the 21st century. Focusing on the theme of the masquerade, the series attempts a direct commentary of the Chinese society on the backdrop of Beijing’s increasing economic might, while providing a provocative and ironic study of shifting stereotypes that emphasizes on the borderline between reality and fantasy.
Set in the context of the American landscape, the images evoke a reference to Chinese ink paintings at first sight. However, finely calibrated multiple deceptions and the casual revelation of those deceptions serve a reminder that this is a staged photograph. The emperor’s contemplative and impassive gaze outside the pictorial space suggests the real world that exists beyond the boundaries of the frame. High rise buildings and contemporary activities act as a conduit between inside and outside, between fictive and real space. The appropriated alter ego thus becomes the quintessential outsider that transforms every photographic occasion into a seriocomic ritual of cultural diplomacy.
Vita Brown
In this series of photos I chose images that have resonance to me, project it onto a wall and then re-photograph myself interacting with said projection. It’s my way of delving into the correlation between the past and the present and the feelings one associates with memories; how it’s possible to manipulate the past, twist events and remember things completely differently to how they actually happened.
Vix Walker – Untitled Polaroid
I’m interested in Polaroid manipulation because Polaroids are thought to be incapable of alteration; I liked the juxtaposition of a fictitious image on a medium which normally signifies truth.
Zeta Gao – the floating journey
I’m a big fan of classical music and my favorite composers are Rachmaninoff and Stravinsky. Their work are very sentimental, but at the same time, very noble and classy. This is where I got my inspiration from. I like contradictory things and I believe that as a photographer, to embody the duality of either a model or an image can be a very difficult task. I’m now on my way.
My work “the floating journey” depicts a fairy tale that the Princess Mononoke lost gravity and later she had a wonderful journey floating in the other world. The world we couldn’t see but exists in our mind. I define this series of photographs as surreal fashion narratives.
Cassidy Paul – This is My Goodbye
This work confronts the idea of truth within photography by denying the viewer any contextual information: any opinion or understanding of the events or narrative must come solely from time stamps and the visual content. This lack of information opens up possibilities for multiple interpretations, breaking the idea that a photograph tells a singular ‘truth’.
Elizabeth Harnarine – Inner Demons
On the outside I look normal, but, at this moment, my body is destroying itself.
Until a cure is discovered, Crohn’s Disease will have an enormous impact on the way I live my life. My doctors frequently use multiple methods of recording the damage the disease is causing to my digestive system. These costly and uncomfortable procedures often result in oddly beautiful images of a painful and oppressive disease.
Martim Passos – Caraíva, BA – Brazil
My photograph plays with dimension and scale. Although it looks like a canyon or a massive waterfall, it’s only a regular-sized rock on the beach. It demonstrates how nature can mislead our perception of the world, repeating shapes in different scales, and how photography can emphasise such tricks through the use of perspective and close ups.
Isabella Alesci
Ryan Duffin
Mark Fitton
Ashley Middleton
Masahito Ono
Kalman Pool
Gunner Strietzel
PHOTOFEAST Curators:
Tina Keon
Kevin Aranibar Molina
Megan Paetzhold
John Ralston
Victoria Rickson
Monica Terrero
Hallie Turner
Troy Wong
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!
