Upcoming Events:
2019 Drexel Photo High School Contest Opening Reception
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The 19th year of the Drexel Photography High School Contest was a record-setting one with more than 3000 images submitted. We will celebrate with an Opening Reception on Saturday, February 8th showcasing 170 of the top photographs from all around the country. We will be exhibiting the work at our photography gallery located at the Photography Facility at the NE corner of 33rd and Arch Streets (101 N. 33rd St.) through March 1st. This event is open to the public.
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High School Photography Summer Residency Workshop
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July 19-25th we will be hosting a week-long intensive program for high school students who are currently in their sophomore or junior year. It is sure to be fun and informative.
The one week residency Photography Workshop will be an intensive exploration of the many facets that make up photography in the 21st century. We will cover all main areas of the medium with one-two day intensive lessons. We will begin in the studio covering the workflow of lighting both still life and portraits. Then we will move into our state of the art digital labs where we will learn how to harness the full power of Photoshop and make large prints from the prior two days in the studio. Finally, we will spend two days in the darkroom exploring the alchemy that makes traditional photography such a magical process. We will also be going on a field trip to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to visit their Prints and Photographs collections where you will see first-hand, prints made by the masters of the medium. Finally, the workshop will culminate with an exhibition of the work produced by the students that parents and the public will be invited to attend to view.
If you are interested in learning more about this or recommending it to a high school student you know, please see more information and how to register
here.
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Natalie Obermaier, class of 2001
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Beyond the Surface
is a group show featuring Natalie's work from her hand cut collage series. The exhibition features a variety of interventions and investigations that include collage, sewing, cutting, weaving and embroidery, all interrogating the material qualities of the physical photograph as an attempt to recover the magic of the photograph-as-object.
Artist Statement:
Coalescing
is a series of collages made in response to the incessant onslaught of mass media and pressures of mainstream beauty standards found within. Women’s fashion magazines in particular stand at a crossroads of cult, consumerism and the unattainable image. By re-appropriating and deconstructing those glossy pages something truer, hand-made and authentic can be expressed. The resulting juxtapositions seek to remind one of the visual and psychological manipulations abound in advertising while also creating a new dialogue in response.
Coalescing
manipulates the manipulated as both rebuttal to the aesthetic pressures of advertising and as reclamation of the human image to speak a deeper truth by reflecting a more personable and representative spirit of self.
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Dates:
Open through January 31st
Bio
Natalie Obermaier works out of her studio in Venice, CA.
Also See
In February Natalie will be part of a group show at The Baldwin Photographic Gallery at Middle Tennessee State University. The show entitled “Trust The Story” is on view from February 6th through March 12th. There will be a reception February 10th at 7pm.
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Tyler Haughey, class of 2012
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Sears-Peyton Gallery will be exhibiting a solo booth of Tyler Haughey's work from his book
Everything is Regional
at this year's
Photo LA
fair, Jan 30 - Feb 2, 2020 at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, CA. You can view a preview of the booth
here
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"Internationally recognized, yet abundantly accessible, Photo LA cultivates connections between industry elite and up-and-coming talent alike. The longest running international photographic art fair on the West Coast, photo l.a. has been in operation for nearly three decades."
Tickets can be purchased
here
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Alumni, Faculty and Student News
Charles Shan Cerrone
, alum, was hired by an NGO in Nigeria for 2 weeks of
documentary filmmaking
on agriculture, healthcare and education. He also directed a commercial for Chevrolet featuring their involvement in Wreaths Across America, involving shutting down the GW Bridge to film a mile+ long Chevy convoy. Shan was lead cam-op for the Philly location days of Paolo Pilladi's
Crabs in a Bucket
upcoming feature film with Jeremy Piven. And Shan is currently the Director of Photography for another feature film, still in production:
CHAWW
, which is directed by some of the Creed cast, and stars some of the original cast from Good Times on CBS.
Dana Leonetti,
alum, started a new job as a Design Director of IMG Fashion.
Andrea Modica
,
professor, recently had her portrait of Toni Morrison included on the cover of the New York Times Magazine. Andrea's work from January 1 was featured in the January issue of Photonews Zeitung Fur Fotografie, Hamburg, Germany. CityZine, Guangzhou, China, Winter Issue, pp. 74-81 featured an article about Andrea's work. An upcoming monograph from Andrea's best friend series will be published as part of a trilogy titled
Reveal
(spring, 2020, Yoffy Press).
March 7-8 Andrea will be teaching a weekend workshop at
ICP
.
Andrea is currently part of the group exhibition titled
LOST
at the Center for Photographic Art in Carmel, California. Her photographs included in the show are from the book Lentini, published as part of the LOST series (2019, Kris Graves Projects)
Alexa Nahas
, alum, was on fox29 for a segment about photographing dogs around the holidays. She also received another couple's choice award from
Wedding Wire
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Jeffrey Stockbridge
, alum, is a finalist for the European Centre for the Arts HELLERAU PORTRAIT AWARD. His work will be on display at the TECHNISCHE SAMMLUNGEN in DRESDEN from Feb 20th - March 29th, 2020.
Jackie Tumaian
, alum, just launched her new
travel blog
. Jackie is a travel assistant/blogger with an ultimate goal of helping people travel more. She finds great travel deals and also puts together itineraries for trips. In addition to the new travel blog, Jackie is running her own photography business which she has had since graduation and working for a general agent handling employee benefits.
Jason has also been doing editorial work for
Real Simple Magazine, The National, Wine Spectator, and The New York Times.
And advertising campaigns for
Hershey, Campbell's Soup, Savenica USA, Honeygrow, New Amsterdam Vodka, Visit Baltimore, and Starr Restaurants.
Cassandra Wang
, alum, shot for a restaurant called Noreetuh in the East Village of Manhattan and her photographs were featured in the
Michelin Guide
and
Forbes
(interior shot only).
Rachel Wisniewski
, alum, attended the
Missouri Photo Workshop
from September 21-28 in Boonville, Missouri. This is run by the University of Missouri’s photojournalism program and is a highly regarded storytelling workshop. Rachel shot her first article for
The New York Times
and her second article for
The Wall Street Journal.
Rachel was one of 31 winners of Feature Shoot’s Emerging Photography Awards; the winners will have their work in Aperture Gallery in NYC in January.
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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 with your news today.
Sincerely,
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Paul Runyon, Sr
Program Director
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Drexel Photography Program
www.drexelphotography.com
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