This season FotoFika is working on a crowdsourced cookbook for photographers, educators and students featuring recipes for photographic chemistry, living a purposeful life, a killer meatloaf and plenty of beverage options.

FotoFika meetings are every 3rd Wednesday of the month at 4 pm Eastern!

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/93761631388?pwd=eTYxL0NSVkVNWDh4SnVhclFXTEorQT09

Meeting ID: 937 6163 1388

Passcode: fotofika

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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 photographers, educators and students featuring recipes for photographic chemistry, living a purposeful life, a killer paella and even a few adult beverages.

FotoFika meetings are every 3rd Wednesday of the month at 4 pm Eastern!

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/93761631388?pwd=eTYxL0NSVkVNWDh4SnVhclFXTEorQT09

Meeting ID: 937 6163 1388

Passcode: fotofika

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 assignment
• Advice for students
• Recipe for survival, success, the future, the way forward
• Coping strategies

See you Wednesday, April 28th, 4pm EDT at:

https://zoom.us/j/93761631388?pwd=eTYxL0NSVkVNWDh4SnVhclFXTEorQT09

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spenational/fotofika-2020-all-stars-trading-card-project

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

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 devastation and hope in a time of pandemic and civil unrest. Join us to hear about this collective endeavour that occurred both online and in the museum at ICP.

https://icpconcerned.icp.org/

David Campany is a curator, writer and Managing Director of Programs at the International Center of Photography, New York. He has published over 200 essays and authored seventeen books including On Photographs (2020), and Art and Photography (2003). Last year he curated the six-museum Biennale für Aktuelle Fotografie.

See you WEDNESDAY, April 14th, 4pm EST at:

ZOOM ID:

https://zoom.us/j/93761631388?pwd=eTYxL0NSVkVNWDh4SnVhclFXTEorQT09

https://zoom.us/j/93761631388?pwd=eTYxL0NSVkVNWDh4SnVhclFXTEorQT09

Kim Beil teaches art history at Stanford University. Recently she’s written about  photography and climate change for the Atlantic,  the pre-history of  Zoom backgrounds for Aeon/Psyche , and pandemic bread photography for Literary Hub. Her book,  Good Pictures: A History of Popular Photography , was published in June 2020. You can find her ever-expanding collection of how-to books on Instagram. Join Foto Fika Wednesday, March 31 4PM HERE

– John, Betsy, Anne P.S. Please consider donating to our Kickstarter campaign for our 2020 All Star Trading Cards: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/spenational/fotofika-2020-all-stars-trading-card-project

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 celebrating the next generation of photographers….and so The FotoFika 2020 All Stars Project was born.

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, making it easier for educators to find the resources we need to diversify our curriculums.

Strange Fire: The Strange Fire artist collective is a group of interdisciplinary artists, curators, and writers focused on work that engages with current social and political forces. Strange Fire is a platform for work that critically questions the dominant social hierarchy, dedicated to highlighting work made by women, people of color, and queer and trans artists. Their collective practice is centered around increasing the visibility of meaningful work and creating dialogue and community through publications, exhibitions, and events. Strange Fire was formed in 2015 by Jess T. Dugan, Hamidah Glasgow, Zora J Murff, and Rafael Soldi.

Rafael Soldi, Co-Founder: Rafael Soldi is a Peruvian­-born, Seattle-based artist and curator. He holds a BFA in Photography & Curatorial Studies from the Maryland Institute College of Art. His practice centers on how queerness and masculinity intersect with larger topics of our time such as immigration, memory, and loss. He has exhibited internationally at the Frye Art Museum, American University Museum, Griffin Museum of Photography, ClampArt, The Print Center, Museo MATE, Filter Space, and Burrard Arts Foundation, among others. Rafael has received grants and awards from the Magenta Foundation, Puffin Foundation, smART Ventures, Artist Trust, 4Culture, the Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, and Center Santa Fe. He has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, PICTURE BERLIN, Oxbow Space, and the Bogliasco Foundation.

His first monograph, Imagined Futures, was published in 2020 by Candor Arts,

His work is in several permanent museum collections and has been reviewed on ARTFORUM, The Seattle Times, The Boston Globe, Photograph Magazine, The Seen, Art Nexus, and PDN. He is an SPE board member, co-founder of the Strange Fire Collective, and co-curator of the High Wall, a yearly outdoor video projection program that invites immigrant artists to intervene the facade of a former immigration center building in the heart of Seattle.

Keavy Handley-Byrne, Educational Resources Coordinator, Content Contributor: Keavy Handley-Byrne is a photographer and writer. Handley-Byrne holds an MFA in photography from Rhode Island School of Design and a BFA in photography from Purchase College, SUNY. Keavy’s work addresses issues of queer identity and gender, with a particular focus on finding joy in the wake of trauma and loss. Their work has been featured online with A New Nothing and StayAtHome.Photography, and has been exhibited across the United States. Keavy is currently working with both the Northeast Chapter of the Society for Photographic Education, as well as the LGBTQ+ Caucus as their Northeast Chapter representative, and is pursuing collegiate teaching as a profession. They are currently based on Lenape and Canarsie land (Brooklyn, NY).

See you WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17th, 4pm EST at:

ZOOM ID:https://zoom.us/j/93761631388?pwd=eTYxL0NSVkVNWDh4SnVhclFXTEorQT09Zoom – PWD – fotofikahttps://zoom.us/j/93761631388

John, Betsy, Anne

P.S. Please consider donating to our Kickstarter campaign for our 2020 All Star Trading Cards: