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 […]
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 […]
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 – […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Last week I watched Laurie Anderson’s first lecture (although she resisted that label) for Harvard’s Norton Lectures. She will be giving 6 in all over the course of 2021. The second lecture will take place on March 24 and I would really encourage you to sign up. She touches on so much –and does what […]