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Hey FotoFika Friends!  We are going to be recording two live episodes this week in at the national conference of the Society for Photographic Education in Denver and we’d love for you to join us either in person or online.  Email us and we will send you the link.  We’ve added all of the previous [...]

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Join Anne, Betsy and John as we talk to David Chickey from the non-profit publisher Radius Books on October 20th at 4pm Eastern via Zoom.  We fell in love with his 2009 book “Beaumont’s Kitchen: Lessons on Food, Life and Photography with Beaumont Newhall” and invited him to talk about Radius’ book donation program, publishing [...]

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FotoFika is Back!   Last week Anne, Betsy and John hosted Rebecca Senf from the Center for Creative Photography and talked about her 52 Cake Project and the ways in which it influenced her work as a curator, her scholarship and her role as a parent.  This season FotoFika is working on a crowdsourced cookbook for [...]

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FotoFika is back! Meet with us on Wednesday, September 15th, at 4 pm Eastern! This year we’re taking on a new approach to working with all of you. Come back to say hello to friends, stay to hear about the new project! What do mini-marshmallows have to teach us about taking risks, building instinct, being [...]

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Recipes! This last year we’ve talked about adapting formulas and how to’s, we’ve talked about modifying assignments and guiding principles – FotoFika keeps thinking about these as the “recipes” of photo education. Bring a recipe to share! A FEW THAT HAVE ALREADY COME OUR WAY: Ingredient list (from lighting list assignment) Metaphor of a sandwich [...]

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We Did It (You Did It) – For the next 3 days we are trying to get sets of decks into as many institutional collections that we can. If you bought a set on behalf of an institution or noted private collection, please let us know so we can add you to the list – [...]

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There are 11 days left to the 2020 All Star Kickstarter campaign, where we are raising money to send every student who participated a free deck of cards with their images included. We have a $2000 challenge pledge which will match your contribution dollar for dollar until midnight tonight. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spenational/fotofika-2020-all-stars-trading-card-project [...]

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Join FotoFika this Wednesday when David Campany joins us. Just over a year ago the International Center of Photography initiated the hashtag #ICPConcerned. David Campany, reflects on how it became an exhibition and book that democratized the curatorial exchange between image maker and museum. With over 800 images from 70 countries, the project looked at [...]

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Kim Beil joins FotoFika TODAY. In this talk, Kim Beil introduces her Fotofika assignment, “Good Pictures Break the Rules,” with a visual tour of aesthetic rules that have been overturned in photography since the 20th century. She argues that breaking the rules can be a radical act: a rejection of the stylistic status quo can [...]

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Thanks Aline Smithson for writing about the 2020 All Stars in Lenscratch! In 2020, the pandemic impacted graduating students in a profound way. Thesis shows were cancelled, graduations were unique to say the least, and many students felt shorted by the last days of in person learning. But with difficult situations comes new ways of [...]

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Join us this Wednesday for a conversation with Rafael Soldi and Keavy Handley-Byrne from Strange Fire Collective about their extensive collections of educational classroom resources Strange Fire re-imagines how their archive can bring long-lasting change to the institutions educating the next generation of thinkers. They developed tools to utilize and interpret their archive in  classroom settings, [...]

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Join us this Wednesday for an impromptu launch party to celebrate the start of our Kickstarter campaign. We are raising money to support the publication of photographs from all student participants in the 2020 Allstar FotoFika Trading Card project. We’ll unveil and unbox the BETA deck and officially launch the campaign.  Please share with family and friends: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spenational/fotofika-2020-all-stars-trading-card-projectWe’re inviting all our 134 [...]

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We’ve added the links Annu’s shared with us to our databases which you can find here. You’ll find most of them in the database for creating an inclusive classroom. And for those who weren’t able to attend our Feb 3 session, Max’s PDF can be found here: Max_Kan_Fotofika_2021 [...]

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Authors

John Freyer

John Freyer is an artist, author and educator based in Richmond Virginia. His projects include All My Life for Sale, Big Boy, Live IKEA, Free Ice Water, and Free Hot Coffee Freyer is an Associate Professor of Cross Disciplinary Media at Virginia Commonwealth University. Freyer’s practice engages accidental audiences in galleries, museums, and public spaces. He explores the role of everyday, personal objects in our lives – as commodities, fetishes, and totems and investigates how the circulation of objects and stories enrich social ties between individuals and groups. He earned his B.A. from Hamilton College and M.A. & M.F.A. from the University of Iowa. His work has been reviewed in The New Yorker, The Sunday London Times, Artforum, Print Magazine and NBC’s The Today Show. Freyer is a Fulbright Scholar, a Macdowell Colony Fellow and was an Artist in Residence at Light Work and the Fannon Center, Doha, Qatar. Freyer has brought his social practice projects – Free Ice Water and Free Hot Coffee to the TEDx stage, has exhibited at Mixed Greens Gallery in New York, the Liverpool Biennial Fringe in Liverpool, UK and was a 2018 Tate Exchange Associate at Tate Modern, London.

Anne Leighton Massoni

Anne Leighton Massoni, is the Dean | Managing Director of Education at the International Center of Photography in New York City. She has held positions at Marshall University, Cornell University, Tyler School of Art, Washington College, Memphis College of Art, Monmouth University and the University of the Arts.

Massoni graduated with a MFA in Photography from Ohio University and BAs in Photography and Anthropology from Connecticut College. Her work relates to ideas of both real and fabricated memories and identity, using a variety of film and digital techniques.

She has exhibited nationally and internationally including the H. F. Johnson Museum in New York, The Print Center in Philadelphia, The Sol Mednick Gallery in Philadelphia, NIH in Washington, DC, the Allen Sheppard Gallery in New York City, Newspace Gallery in Portland, Rayko in San Francisco, the East End Film Festival in London, England, the International Mobile Innovation Screening in New Zealand and Australia, and IlCantinonearte Teatri e Galleria del Grifo in Montepulciano, Italy. Recent publications of her work include ASPECT: The Chronicle of New Media Art and SpostaMenti, an exhibition catalog of her series “Holding” and The Photograph & The Album, Published by MuseumsEtc in England. She co-edited The Focal Press Companion to the Constructed Image in Contemporary Photography with Marni Shindelman.

Betsy Schneider

Betsy Schneider is a photographer and filmmaker who explores and documents transformations of individuals and families over time and place. She is a Guggenheim Fellow and her work has been shown in major museums and festivals around the world.  A former national board member for SPE. From 2002 to 2016 she was a professor in the School of Art at Arizona State University, in 2016 she relocated to the Boston Area and since then has continued to work for ASU as a lecturer, designer, developer and coordinator of an unique online BFA in photography. She has recently taught at Harvard, MassArt and Hampshire and currently teaches online for ASU and at Emerson College.