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Open House
Join Us!
I would like to personally invite you to our Fall Open Houses on Sunday, October 15th and Saturday November 18th. Open Houses are a great opportunity to meet our faculty, current students, tour our facility and learn how our innovative program integrates classroom study and real world experience. You will also learn about the outstanding Drexel Co-Op and how the photography program assists you in finding the perfect placement for your interests and how you can graduate with professional experience on your résumé. For registration and more information, please visit the
Open House Website
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In the event that you cannot make either, we would still love to have you visit the facility so feel free to contact Casey Cummings to set up a personal tour.
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Western Landscapes
Expanding Experiences
Paul Runyon, Associate Professor and Program Director of Photography, led six seniors on a field trip as part of the Western Landscape photography course over the Summer break. In addition to having spectacular landscape to photograph, the students learned firsthand about industrial tourism, land use, geology and the politics of water in the west over their 11 day, 2400 mile road trip through remote areas and national parks.
Stops included: Hoover Dam, Lake Meade, Capitol Reef National Park, Escalante National Park, Calf Creek Falls, Goblin Valley, Little Wild Horse Canyon, Devils Garden, Canyonlands National Park, Dead Horse Point State Park, Monument Valley Tribal Park and the Grand Canyon.
They visited 5 national parks and 3 Utah state parks covering over 2500 miles. The students photographed the Milky Way, slot canyons, the quirks that make Moab the place it is, got chased by questionable characters in Green River and listened to the coyotes howl in the morning at Horseshoe Bend.
Images from this class will be on display in the lobby of the URBN Center for Westphal College at 35th and Market Streets December 12 - January 15th, 2018.
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High School Photography Contest
Help us get the word out to all High School students! Our annual High School Photography Contest is open for submissions now through November 20th. There will be prizes awarded and a gallery showing of selected work with an opening reception in February 2018. For more info. 
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Alumni, Faculty and Student News
Mike Arrison
,
alumnus, recently photographed The Equator Prize in New York City, an annual ceremony hosted by The Equator Initiative, a United Nations Development Program which honors groups of indigenous and native organizations from all over the globe that are pursuing nature-based solutions to sustainability and conservationism. The ceremony was attended by representatives of every government on the planet.
Along with his extensive work shooting behind the scenes of music videos and commercials with Set In Motion, a production company founded by fellow Drexel alums, Mike has been pursuing a number of projects focusing on: The political unrest in America as seen through protests and demonstrations in the street, the phenomena of our obsessions with always being on our phones, and his own personal battle with Tourette's Syndrome."
Color space labs
is now shooting video in 8k and offering a 25% discount to Drexel students.
Stephanie Dore, alumna, and her photography students at the Hewitt School in New York City were awarded the top honor of First Prize with Special Merit for the 2017 edition of Hewitt's photography magazine, Perspicacity, from the American Scholastic Press Association. The magazine also won a Best Photography Magazine prize.
Tyler Haughey
, alumnus, was in a group show, "At a Languorous Pace", at Sears-Peyton Gallery in New York over the summer.
Niko J. Kallianiotis
, adjunct, had his project "America in a Trance" featured in PBS Newshour, Esquire, Vice, and The Scranton Times, among other publications.
Upcoming Exhibitions:
Freyberger Gallery
Penn State, Reading, PA.
Opening: Jan. 11, 2018
Reception: Jan. 18, 2018
James Kerney Gallery
Mercer County Community College (MCCC)
Trenton, NJ.
Reception and Artist Talk:
Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 5-8pm.
Michaela Michener,
alumna, had an image from her recent senior thesis work accepted in The Photo Review 2017 Competition and received Sixth Prize! Her winning image: Grandfather, Grandmother, from the series "A Family Affair" will be shown at Philadelphia's University of the Arts' Gallery 1401 this fall from November 3 to December 1.
Michaela also won a Drexel University photography contest with the grand prize being her image used as the cover for English Textbook
The 33rd - an anthology.
Harris Mizrahi, alumnus, photographed images accompanying an
article in The New York Times Magazine (Oct. 1st edition).
He will also be showing his work and participating in a panel discussion at the
Fotodoks festival in Munich October 11-15.
Andrea Modica, faculty, photographed a subject for the New York Times Magazine (Oct. 1st edition). Alumna Ariel Skovera assisted on the shoot in Princeton, NJ
Eddy Rhenals, alumnus, was featured in an
article in Address Magazine about his process and cyanotype work.
Saliana Rosenfield, sophomore, won 1st place in the Only Elite Matters
Owl Create project this summer through Temple University.
Cassi Segulin, alumna, was published in 2 more issues of JUMP, their Spring 2017 issue and Fall 2017 issue.
Ariel Skovera, alumna, had one of her images from her recent senior thesis series receive an Honorable Mention in Photographer's Forum's 37th Annual Spring Photography Contest and will be published in the Best of Photography 2017 book.
Ashley Smith, alumna and adjunct, collaborated on a project with fellow alumna Kara Khan on a project that is in an exhibition at the
Brother Kenneth Chapman Gallery
of the Iona College Arts Center in
New Rochelle, NY through October 19th. These two also participated in an artist gallery talk there on September 7th.
Ashley also has work featured in these upcoming exhibitions:
Stitch Fetish San Francisco
Oct. 13 - Dec. 2, 2017
Reception: Friday, Oct. 13, 2017 7-10pm
Center for Sex and Culture
San Francisco, CA
The Art of Protest
Nov. 2 - Dec. 3, 2017
Reception: Friday, Nov. 3, 2017 6pm
Imago Foundation for the Arts
Warren, RI
Jeffrey Stockbridge, alumni, is part of "Philadelphia Assembled" at the Philadelphia Museum of Art
from September 9 - Dec 10.
Recent press coverage of his works includes:
Jason Varney, alumnus,
recently completed a global advertising campaign for Smirnoff, and an out of home campaign for Smirnoff US. Additional Ad work for Apple, Campbell's Soup, Hershey, Honeygrow, Saxbys Coffee, Iron Hill Brewery, and Belmond Hotels. Also, he shot his 10th Philadelphia Magazine cover for the August 17 issue.
Emma Williams, alumna, had an image selected as a finalist in the Photo Review 2017 Competition.
Matt Zugale, alumnus, recently completed a project for Design Army and Cross Properties, documenting Bala Cynwyd's main street. He photographed students for Great Philly Schools, a resource to help parents and students find great schools from K-12th grade. Photographed around Essex County, NJ for re:porter, porter Airline's inflight magazine. Matt worked with the Nakashima Foundation for Peace in New Hope, PA documenting their milling process and the 50th anniversary of their Art's building.
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| Alumni, please don't forget to let us know what you are doing. We would love to hear (and feature) any exhibitions, new work, contests, articles, or anything else that you have been doing. Send us an email or catch us on Facebook with your news today.
Sincerely,
Paul Runyon, Sr.
Program Director
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