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Thursday, August 27, 2015

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

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Welcome back! Here is a bit of whimsy to start out the semester...

Welcome back!
It has been a fast and furious summer but we are off to the races here again. Just wanted to get the juices flowing with a little photographic piece here on the amazing digital artist Jane Long.

Here is a bit of whimsy to start out the semester...

http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/08/black-and-white-photographs-into-colorful-works-of-fantasy/

Saturday, March 7, 2015

Ode to my Photo Grandfather - Bart Parker

If our knowledge and experiences had a family tree... a web... a network of connections we make...

Remember the name: Work by late professor, former students on display at URI - Independent Newspapers: Arts And Living

Sunday, February 1, 2015

dear photograph

Feeling a bit sentimental today...

a favorite passage...

And our faces, my heart, brief as photos...

When I open my wallet
to show my papers
pay money
or check the time of a train
I look at your face.

The flower`s pollen
is older than the mountains
Aravis is young
as mountains go.

The flower`s ovules
will be seeding still
when Aravis then aged
is no more than a hill.

The flower in the heart`s
wallet, the force
of what lives us
outliving the mountain.

And our faces, my heart, brief as photos.

-John Berger, 1984.

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this is a great site...

http://dearphotograph.com

Monday, January 19, 2015

Welcome students!!

Welcome to a new semester!
Here is a little something to get you warmed up...

or click here...

Saturday, November 8, 2014

SCC Student Exhibition @ the St. Peters Cultural Arts Center Oct 31 - Dec 22, 2014

Fall 2014 SCC Student Photography Books here!

For anyone interested in getting a sense of what we do in ART225 - Digital Photo II & ART299 - Adv. Independent Study, here are our most recent editions to the collection of books that we have been creating over the past three and a half years. I am really proud of all of the students and their hard work and enthusiasm that has gone into creating these books. The projects are a strong testament to their commitment to the creative process and elongated exploration of an idea. It is such a treat 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 handmake our books depending on the project. C

Check 'em out!!

The artists will be giving talks about their work and their creative process on December 2 & 4 from 10-12:50pm in VAB107 at SCC. This is event is free and open to all. Please join us as we are looking for audience members! The more the merrier!

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