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Spring 2016 SCC Student Photography Books!

For anyone interested in getting a sense of what we do in ART2830 - Digital Photo II (and beyond ART2840, 2850, 2855) here are our most recent editions to the collection of books that we have been creating over the past 4-5 years. I am continually proud of the students with their dedication, hardwork, and enthusiasm as they have focused on the creation of these books. The projects are a strong testament to their commitment to the creative process and elongated exploration of an idea. It is an incredible honor to witness the evolution of each body of work. We spend nearly 2/3's of the entire semester working on a body of work that researches & investigates a topic of their choosing and then we work through the process of organizing and shaping our photographs, regarding that idea, into a book format. We then publish them through blurb.com or sometimes we hand-make our books depending on the project.


Where can you check 'em out??
The current semester's artists will be giving talks about their work and their creative process on May 6 from 10-12:50pm in SSB Auditorium at St. Charles Community College. The entire Photography Area will also be having a portfolio share . This event is free and open to all supportive audiences. Please join us! The more the merrier!


Books – Spring 2016...
(in no particular order...)


    Welcome to Womanhood  by Hannah Anderson


              See No Evil by Philip Padilla


   Black & White Portraits by Brian Green

Don't Drink the Water by Katie Crow

   Old Age Is No Place For Sissies by Sue Wolf

What is Left Behind by Joseph Beckwith

    Phantasmagoric by Ethan Steller

   See You At The Beach by Gabbie Holmes

    Obsession by Chuyi Liu 

Here is the information on the presentation if you would like to attend. It is free and open to the supportive public.

Fall 2014...
...in no particular order...

Often Overlooked   by Alli Keisker

Are You Listening?  by Sue Wolf












Black & White VS Color  by Dana Hayes

Bits & Pieces  by Brittnie Hughes

Disconnect  by Warren Rich










coming soon...


Leslie Jordan

Given Zane






Here are some links from previous semesters:

Spring 2014...

Castles in the Sky   by April Stout

The Possible Outcome   by Connor Lockett

Designated for Human Consumption   by Given Zane

Shelter Life   by Sue Wolf

From the River's Edge   by Erin Petty

Zoo Families   by Adam Hinton

Where the Black Top Ends   by Kayla Czajkowski

Music for Us   by Warren Rich

Indelible  by Lauren Ochs

A Peek Into Dissonance  by Henry Salazar



Spring 2013...

Ain't That America   by Jon Slade

In the Garage   by Michael Randman

Without Breaking   by Alex Little

Remembering the Past, Educating the Future   by Debbie Bauer

Missouri Barns   by Debbie Bauer

Dreams and Memories   by Anthony Medvick

In the City   by Jaimie Vaughn

Medals and Scars   by Kate Vohsen

The Independent Study Collection   by Megan Flattery



Fall 2012...

Itinerant Encounters    by Jon Slade

Life on the Water    by Michael Randman

CERT   by April Stout

Living in a Box   by Elizabeth Ache

Preserving Our Past Through Photographs - Saint Charles County, Missouri    by Zac Hodges

The Faces of New Melle    by Connor Lockett



Spring 2012...

Lena Wood, Metamorphose, 2012. 

Melisa Fielder-Spence, La Fleur, 2012. 

Mat Hoosier, Defying Gravity, 2012.

Phil Cary, MKT Line, 2012.

Megan Flattery, Familial, 2012. 

Raquel Engle, Half Closed Eyes, 2012.

Rachel Mitchell, Once Upon a Time, 2012.



Fall 2011...

Debbie Bauer, Missouri Barns, 2011.

Joshua Evans, Idiosyncratic Reality, 2011. 

Kimberly Wall, tirer le portrait, de toute notre, 2011.

Rebecca Chapman, Nature Untouched, 2011. 

Natalie Armitstead, Hidden Ballerina, 2011.

Eric Wuestenberg, Canyons in Utah, 2011.

Jade Roch Van Rochsburg, Spheres, 2011.

Allen Wilberton, St. Louis Spouthwestern Freight Depot: Space in History, 2011.




Lastly here is a link to our SCC Photography Department Books bookstore! 
We have many other collections of student work for you to enjoy. 

only to be discovered 45 years later...

Photographs of everyday life in 1950s New York City discovered in an attic 45 years later

Film is a Disease

Gregory Colbert - Ashes & Snow

Ashes & Snow

https://gregorycolbert.com

Roger Payne, famous for the discovery of whale song among Humpback whales, said of Colbert's work, “Gregory’s images return us to the sanity of our undeniable, unavoidable, inextricable connection to nature. And they do it with beauty, grace, lightness-of-being, strength. His images, like whale songs, are the last wild voices calling to the consciousness of terminally civilized humanity, our last contact with nature before we submerge forever in our own manufacture and lose forever the final fragments of our wild selves.”

Closing the gap... Ira Glass on the Creative Process (www.getoutthebox.org)

To all my artists out there...  
here is a 1 minute inspirational and enlightening talk that we all should listen to.

My photo father's "Memory Loss"

 If you documented your mentors in terms of lineage we would all have a family tree of our educational intersections. To some these connections are mediocre. To me they carry some serious weigh and many hard earned lessons. Point being, we all are standing on the shoulders of giants, which are actually someone else's ideas, dialogue that we have with the work or existence of other creators.  However you choose to think about your past influences and gifts, this is one of my favorite giants to reference, my photo father, Stan Strembicki. Check out a recently uploaded portfolio of his on Behance... 

Stan Strembicki - Memory Loss 2005 -2007