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| Mark your calendars! We have our biggest event of the year, the Senior Thesis Exhibition & Opening Reception on Friday, June 8th. We hope to see you there! |
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Senior Thesis
Reception & Show
Please mark June 8th on your calendars and join us for the opening reception of our 2018 Photography Senior Thesis Exhibition. Every June we hold a public
exhibition
of our graduating seniors' thesis projects; thesis is a nine-month, self-directed project of the student's choosing. The opening reception is well attended by industry professionals and is a wonderful evening celebrating our students'
photography. This year's event will be held at the Leonard Pearlstein Gallery in the URBN Annex at 3401 Filbert Street.
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Philadelphia High School Students' Photography Workshop
This term we began our new Saturday High School Workshops. The workshops are offered, free of charge, to Philadelphia Public High School students who were nominated by their art teachers.
We want to thank Photography class of 1998 alumna Laura Singer, The Paul & Emily Singer Family Foundation and Canon USA. Without their generous support we could not have made this very import effort a reality. We plan to continuing offering these workshops in upcoming terms.
The students come for ten Saturdays to learn about all aspects of modern photography. The classes are lead by Ashley Smith with the help of current junior Kylie West. These high school students are able to use state of the art DSLR cameras which were loaned to us from Canon. They spend their time photographing on campus and in the studio, visiting exhibitions at the PMA, and working in our digital labs to learn about editing, retouching and printing. The 10 week course culminates in students giving presentations about their final body of work.
If you know a Philadelphia public high school student with a passion for photography whom you'd like to nominate, email [email protected]
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Jason Varney: Recent Work
We hope you were able to make it to the Opening Reception of Alumnus Jason Varney's solo exhibition "Recent Work" last Friday. If you missed it, the show is up and open to the public through July 20th at the Paul Peck Alumni Center Gallery (3241 Market St, Philadelphia, PA).
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| "Drying Espelette, 2013" by Jason Varney |
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Alumni, Faculty and Student News
A review of the show by the Tampa Bay Times is here.
Andrea's recently released book January 1 was discussed on WHYY. To listen, click here.
Stuart Rome, faculty, had work published in the 6
th
volume of American Chordata magazine.
Also he was included in the group show,
A History of Color Photography
at Haverford College. Stuart Rome was also interviewed by the Philadelphia Convention Center about the photographs they had recently purchased.
Amanda Tinker, faculty, has photographs in a group
show up at The Halide Project, Second Nature open through May 12, 2018. 1627 N. 2nd Street, Phila.
Tyler Haughey, alumnus, is releasing a photographic book titled Everything Is Regional published by Aint
-Bad. It will be available for pre-order soon. It will be released during the Philadelphia Art Book Fair the first weekend in June at the 23rd Street Armory.
Everything Is Regional examines the built environment of northeastern coastal towns and explores how we use, interact with, and remember places designed and known for summer recreation. Combining photographs that I've taken since 2010, the book acts as a monograph, examining the threads that run through my work and various projects. Haughey's project Ebb Tide, which takes the midcentury modern motels of The Wildwoods as its subject, acts as a nucleus to Everything Is Regional, and is further discussed and contextualized by Adam Giles Ryan, Assistant Curator of Photography at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, in the introduction to the book.
Niko Kallianiotis, adjunct, has a solo exhibition of America in a Trance at the JKC Gallery at Mercer Community College in Trenton, NJ.
Niko's first monograph, America in a Trance, is published by Damiani Editore, Bologna, Italy and available for order.
Jason Varney,
alumnus, won an award in the category of Best Editorial in this year's Communication Arts Photo Annual for his feature on the art family linage of the Wyeth's for INK Global/American Way to be published in the July/August issue.
His recent client work includes:
Editorial Projects for The New York Times, Travel + Leisure, Prevention, and Philadelphia.
Advertising Projects for Campbell's Soup, Honeygrow,
Saxbys Coffee, Belmond (UK) Limited, High Noon Vodka
Matt Zugale, alumnus,
recently shot 2 features in Philly Mag: House Hunters for the April issue and Meet Your Maker for the May issue. He is also completing a project for the Miller Theatre at Columbia University focusing on Composer portraits in various locations on campus, through The Heads of State. Matt recently worked with Oberland, an agency in New York, for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society featuring portraits of survivors and a renowned researcher.
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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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