Lali Khalid

This basic class, required for entry into all other photo classes, introduces contemporary technologies for producing photographic images. This course also introduces seeing, thinking and creating with a critical mind and eye to provide greater understanding of the construction and manipulation of photographic form and meaning. Approaching the medium in its current complex and pluralistic state, students explore a variety of photographic concepts and techniques. While various physical cameras are still in use today the fundamentals of using digital cameras, including manual exposure and lighting are stressed. Eclectic forms of output are explored in order to discover methods of presentation most suited to a particular idea. 'Knowledge of photography is just as important as that of the alphabet. The illiterate of the future will be a person ignorant of the use of the camera as well as the pen.' Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946). This course will address the complex and continual shifting nature of photography; what influences our understanding of how a photograph functions while exploring a diverse array of photographic genres and applications. Assignments will provide technical skills to use cameras, compose images and print digital photographs. Readings, screenings and discussions will provide a framework for critically analyzing the photographs we encounter every day, as well as our own photographs.

This course introduces students to self-portraiture and complex intersections of race, representation, and identity in contemporary photography. Students will be analyzing the impact of historical visual narratives on contemporary perspectives while developing critical skills to deconstruct visual representations, specifically examining how different media constructs, and portrays race and identity, through a stereotypical, myopic lens. Students will be introduced to artists from all over the world, particularly photographers from marginalized communities who challenge stereotypes and amplify underrepresented voices.

This course introduces students to self-portraiture and complex intersections of race, representation, and identity in contemporary photography. Students will be analyzing the impact of historical visual narratives on contemporary perspectives while developing critical skills to deconstruct visual representations, specifically examining how different media constructs, and portrays race and identity, through a stereotypical, myopic lens. Students will be introduced to artists from all over the world, particularly photographers from marginalized communities who challenge stereotypes and amplify underrepresented voices.

This class concentrates on self-initiated work with an emphasis on student-drivencreative research and intensive project development. Students explore inventive ways to present work while experimenting with different strategies to deliver relevant contextual information. Independent work is reinforced with ongoing group discussions exploring broader issues around how artists and artworks communicate a complex of meanings. This class supports the production of a focused body of work and can be taken multiple times as well as in conjunction with Senior Capstone in preparation for your BFA exhibition. Models of open-ended creative research, production and professional engagement is explored in readings, screenings and discussions. Class activities include combinations of lectures, discussions, workshops, critiques, independent work time and individual meetings. Students are expected to set personal goals while working through a single project or set of concerns for the entire semester to advance work that demonstrates technical facility and expanded knowledge of the conceptual underpinnings of the ever-evolving fields of contemporary photography and visual culture. Participants refine statements and proposals, employ creative approaches to editing a body of work in preparation for presentation in various venues and formats while developing a broader understanding of how to support the promotion of the work.

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.

Taken every semester, the Graduate Projects courses allow students to focus in private sessions on the development of their work. Students register for 6 hours of Graduate Project credit in each semester of study.