Image by Jordan Stein - Senior Thesis 2018
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Upcoming Events:
Open Houses - Oct 14 & Nov 10
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I would like to personally invite you to our Fall Open Houses on Sunday, October 14th and Saturday November 10th. Open Houses are a great opportunity to meet our faculty, current students, tour our facility and learn how our innovative program integrates classroom study and real world experience. You will also learn about the outstanding Drexel Co-Op and how the photography program assists you in finding the perfect placement for your interests and how you can graduate with professional experience on your résumé. For registration and more information, please visit the
Open House Website
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Representatives from the Photography Program will be attending regional Portfolio Review days this fall and would love to see your work!
Sunday, October 21st - Boston, MA
Sunday, November 4th - Philadelphia, PA
Saturday, November 17th - Washington, D.C.
Sunday, November 18th - Baltimore, MD
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High School Photography Contest
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Help us get the word out to all High School students! Our annual High School Photography Contest is open for submissions now through November 19th. There will be prizes awarded and a gallery showing of selected work with an opening reception in February 2019.
For more info.
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Free One-Day Studio Photography Workshop for High School Students - November 30th
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We will be offering a Friday, full day workshop this fall, on November 30th for high school students. The workshop will be an introduction to studio portrait lighting. Students will learn to capture digital images while tethered to a computer, exploring a variety of studio lighting techniques and equipment, including studio strobes, grid spots, color gels, gobos and soft boxes. Technical areas covered will include digital camera operation, settings for capturing tethered, shooting RAW, background gradation and styling. We will shoot in the studio in the morning and then after we break for lunch return to the computer labs where we will print the images we shot in the morning. Each student will be able to take their printed images at the end of the day. We will supply everything they will need and lunch will be provided. There is very limited space, only 10 seats so please reserve your spot early.
The workshop is from 9:30 - 3:30pm. Workshops are free for high school juniors and seniors. Lunch and an attendance note for the participant's high school attendance office will be provided courtesy of the Westphal College. Registrants will receive a confirmation letter and more detailed information about the workshop including the days' agenda, information on where to arrive, and what supplies to bring, if any, prior to the date of the workshop.
Questions? photog@drexel.edu
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10 Week Photography Workshop for Philadelphia High School Students
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For a 2nd term we are offering our Saturday High School Workshops, free of charge, to Philadelphia Public High School students who were nominated by their art teachers.
We again want to thank Photography class of 1998 alumna Laura Singer and The Paul & Emily Singer Family Foundation. Without their generous support we could not have made this very important effort a reality. We plan to continue 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 senior Kylie West. These high school students 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 photog@drexel.edu
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Tyler Haughey:
Everything is Regional
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Tyler Haughey, class of 2012, recently released his first monograph
Everything is Regional. It is available from Aint-Bad, an independent publisher of new photographic art.
Remember to enter coupon code "drexel" at checkout for 20% off!
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I am pleased to announce the addition of 3 new adjunct instructors to our roster.
Noah Addis is a photographer currently based in Philadelphia. He has had solo and small group exhibitions of his work at Pictura Gallery, Loyola University Museum of Art, The Salt Institute for Documentary Studies, The Main Line Arts Center and The Center for Emerging Visual Artists. His work is held in public collections including The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Center for Emerging Visual Artists and the Free Library of Philadelphia. His work is also included in the Midwest Photographers Project at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.
He has been awarded fellowships from the Center for Emerging Visual Artists, the Independence Foundation and the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation and was chosen to participate in The Summer Show Project at the Foley Gallery in New York. He was selected as a winner of the Women’s Committee of the Philadelphia Museum of Art Photography Portfolio Competition.
Addis graduated Magna Cum Laude from Drexel University in Philadelphia with a degree in Photography. Shortly after graduation, he was hired as a staff photographer at the Star-Ledger newspaper in Newark, NJ. While at the newspaper he completed many major projects. In 1999 he worked on a story about the growth of Christianity in Africa. In 2001 he covered the 9/11 terrorist attacks, first at the Pentagon and later in New York. In 2003 he traveled unilaterally to Iraq to document the immediate aftermath of the fall of Baghdad. In 2006 he produced a series of large-format portraits and architectural photographs of an American high school. In 2007 he told the story of a family after the father, a police officer, was shot in the line of duty.
He is currently working on a long-term project focusing on informal settlements and unplanned growth in the world's major cities.
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Charles is a Philadelphia based photographer and videographer whose passion for capturing the beauty in the brutal has taken him globally, from the continental United States to the Far East. Shooting professionally for the better part of a decade with a Bachelor of Science in Photography from Drexel University, he's been trusted by clients to deliver on everything from small projects to multinational campaigns. Beyond his namesake brand, Charles spends most of his time immersed in the visual world. He also serves as Director of Get Hype Productions, Photo Editor of JUMP magazine, and Proprietor of Colorspace Labs - a print shop and exhibition space serving the greater Philadelphia area. In his spare time he can often be found drinking an unhealthy amount of black coffee and taking care of his freshwater piranha tank.
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Eddy Rhenals was born and raised in Colombia. After obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in Architecture, he came to the US in 2007 to study English. While studying English, Eddy took a photography class, which propelled him to a Bachelor of Science in Photography at Drexel University. In 2015, Eddy was recruited by the University of Delaware to join their MFA program. This multidisciplinary MFA program connected him with many artists and media that inspired an evolution and broadening of his photographic work. Eddy started using other media to illustrate his ideas and concepts such as drawing, painting, embroidery, and video among others, but always returning to photography as the base point of any work.
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Alumni, Faculty and Student News
Matt Decker, alumnus, has recently accepted the job of Assistant Retoucher at Anthropologie's home office in Philadelphia.
Niko Kallianiotis, adjunct, has released his first monograph
America In A Trance. It is available for
purchase. Niko has a
solo exhibition
America in a Trance, at The Hope Horn Gallery, University of Scranton. There is also a panel discussion with the essayist from the monograph,
America in a Trance.
Another
solo exhibition
of America in a Trance is open through November 11th at the Thessaloniki PhotoBiennale 2018 in Greece.
Eric Larson
, alumnus, recently started a new position as a photo editor at
WebstaurantStore
in Baltimore, MD.
Michael LeGrand
, alumnus, and his team spent 6 days
capturing the excitement and energy of a unique music festival.
The Sing Out Loud Festival
is a free, multi-date, multi-venue music festival in St. Augustine, Florida featuring hundreds of local, regional and national acts.
Andrea Modica
, Professor, is exhibiting work from her series
January 1
at Galerie Made` in Paris through October 31
st
. The show opened on Saturday, Sept 29th
to great reviews.
Andrea Modica's book
January 1
is available for
purchase
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Peter Murray, alumnus, recently
accepted a full time photographer position in Anthropologie's Home studio.
Natalie Obermaier
, alumna, has 12 collages in a group show called “
Not What It Seems
" in New Jersey at Axiomatic Gallery. The show is up until October 21st at 611 Arnold Avenue, Point Pleasant Beach.
Natalie also has an image from the Women’s March in DC (2017) in a show in New York called
Moved To Act: Demonstrations, Marches, Political Actions
at the
Davis Orton Gallery at 114 Warren Street
in Hudson, NY. That show is open October 27, 2018 to November 25, 2018
In January, Natalie will have a solo exhibit of her collages at Full Circle Gallery at 33 East 21st Street
in Baltimore, MD. That show will be open January 12, 2019- February 23, 2019.
And Natalie has been chosen for an artist residency at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts and will be spending three weeks there in February.
Nikki Sherman, alumna, just celebrated her 5th year as
Marketing Director at the Pennsylvania Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association and recently photographed the prestigious $1 million Pennsylvania Derby at Parx Racing in Bensalem.
Ashley Smith
, alumna and adjunct, will have work included in the
Delaware Art Museum's
Juried Craft Exhibition
on view from October 20, 2018 through January 27, 2019. She will also be leading an artist demonstration on December 7th, 2018 from 4pm - 6pm as part of their public programing.
Ashley also has work included in the exhibition
Textile Art of Today
currently on view at the
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum
in Slovakia through November 11, 2018. It will then travel to museums in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary.
Jordan Stein, alumna,
was published in a few articles for climate week in NYC for The Climate Group.
Jeffrey Stockbridge, alumnus, is participating in a panel at the International Center of Photography called "A Tale of Two Crises: Reading Images of Social Epidemic" this Wednesday, October 10th at 6:30pm.
Jeffrey is also giving an artist talk at Head House Books about my book, Kensington Blues on Thursday, October 11th at 7:30pm and giving talk at a book fair taking place at the Art Museum of the Americas in DC on November 8th.
Online today is a
New York Times Magazine
article
Trapped by the "Walmart of Heroin"
featuring
Jeffrey's photographs.
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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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