FA 381, Final Project, Soyhun

Soyhun, 9 Portraits, 2014

Colloborative Student Project: Cupcake

Cupcakes on Vimeo. FA 382 Colloborative Video Project.
HD Video, 9 minutes, 54 seconds, November, 2014.

Forces (Collaborative Project)

A collaborative demo/project in the lighting studio using different kinds of "forces" while stopping time with a leaf shutter camera. 

Portraits: Project Samples, FA 381

 肖像

 Sohyun

Zahra

Jenna

Shreepad Joglekar

 Artist and Professor Shree Joglekar will be presenting a lecture, via Skype, about his work on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 9:30 am (PST) in FA Photography Class room (Room 7093.

http://www.aabhaa.com 

Read and interview with Shree:

http://issuu.com/stigmart10press/docs/stigmart10__videofocus__february_20/15?e=0/7043439

 The Question, Single channel video, 2014
https://vimeo.com/102795115 

Shree talking on Skype in to students in the FA 381 class.

Lighting Study

Photo: Charlotte Koning

Darkroom to Digital: An Oregon Art Beat Special

Oregon has a remarkable relationship with photography: it is a history filled with documenting the grandeur of the west, staging some of the earliest exhibitions in the country of photographs as works of art, and pushing the boundaries of what a photograph can be.

MFA Candidates in the News

Congrats to MFA Candidates, Zach Kolden for the inclusion of his work in Accreted Terrane

http://www.monamuseum.org/exhibition/accreted-terrane

Congrats to MFA candidate Phillip Mudd for the inclusion of his work in F-Stop Magazine:
http://www.fstopmagazine.com/groupexhibition.html

Kirsten Furlong

 http://kirstenfurlong.com
      

Installation Images, A Sense of Place: Contemporary Finnish Photographh

Colloborative Photo Shoot with the 4x5

 

We also did some reading on Catherine Opie. http://transatlantica.revues.org/6430

SPE NW Conference at WWU

TRANSFIXED | TRANSMEDIA

Western Washington University is pleased to host TRANSFIXED | TRANSMEDIA, the 2014 Society for Photographic Education's Northwest Regional Conference. This conference seeks to explore, embrace, and question the ever-expanding definitions of photography. This conference will dissect the past, present, and future of photographic practices as they relate to the constant redefinition of the field by featuring speakers, students, practitioners, theorists, and historians who are actively pushing the boundaries of the medium.

Bellingham, Washington
October 10-12, 2014 @ Western Washington University

Keynote Speakers: Rodney Graham
Featured Speakers: Jess T. Dugan
Honored Educator: Rebecca Cummins

A Sense of Place; Contemporary Finnish Photography to Open Oct. 2 in WSU Gallery 2

A Sense of Place; Contemporary Finnish Photography is a curated, group exhibition of innovative photography examining place as both as an ideal and reality.

 

Above Image: lkka Halso,  Boulder Corridor,  2011, from the series Naturale

A Sense of Place; Contemporary Finnish Photography

Gallery 2, WSU Fine Art Department

October 1-31, 2014

The artist in the

exhibition include:

Ilkka Halso

http://ilkka.halso.net

Marja Pirilä

http://www.marjapirila.com

Laura Konttinen

http://www.laurakonttinen.net/

Terhi Asumaniemi

http://www.asumaniemi.com

Petri Nuutinen

http://www.petrin.fi

Post-Photography (Current FA 382 Reading)

"http://www.frameweb.com/magazines/elephant/elephant-13"

http://www.oceanviolet.com/float/

WSU Photo Students Work at the Auckland Photo Festival, New Zealand

Summer Final Critique; Sample Projects

Summer Reading

Now that it is summer time, there is the opportunity to brush up on some teaching tools including (re) reading some critical theory, pedagogy, critique-theory and practice, and professional development.The list includes:
Why Art Cannot Be Taught by Elkins
The Critique Handbook by Buster and Crawford
Letters to a Young Artist by Art on Paper
The Radicant by Bourriaud
Art-Write by Ambrose

Summer Class Montage

Roller Derby

Photos by Paul Shweitzer

Images from Challenge Course at Paradise Ridge

As part of the FA 367 Special Topics Summer Photography course, we did a team building adventure at the Paradise Ridge Challenge Course in Moscow, Idaho. It was a great experiential adventure that pushed us to work together as a team, in addition to challenging our own individual limits.

Sculpting TIme

Sculpting Time from Dennis DeHart on Vimeo.

Drawing Restraint

http://www.drawingrestraint.net

The Difficulties of Nonsense

The Difficulties of Nonsense: Robert Cumming in Conversation with Sarah Bay Williams – Part 1/2 from Aperture Foundation on Vimeo.

Book by Colt

Final Project Megan Peterson