Reminder– We will be having a FotoFika Workshop on January 6 at 4PM EST to talk about teaching darkroom photography with reduced, distanced or non-existent class darkroom time. Online, Hybrid and Traditional all have their challenges and advantages and I am hopeful that once Covid no longer dictates our teaching we will emerge with more […]
This Wednesday Ben Gest will be joining us to continue our conversation about critiques, he’ll be introducing us to his critique software – Atget Studio. Atget Studio provides a simple digital platform that makes a back-and-forth exchange between creator and teacher fast and effective. Ask questions, share your art and receive critical and clear feedback […]
We were so lucky to have Terry Barrett come to FotoFika on Wednesday. I’ve been a shoot-from-the hip kind of professor and I don’t think I can ever be any other kind. As Mark Klett says we are paid to think on our feet. Responding to the individual, to the moment, to what is on […]
My thinking about critique was piqued for three (and then more) reasons this fall. Before the semester started in a meeting with John and Anne, Anne suggested we watch this video, The Room of Silence addressing ways in which some BIPOC students feel in critiques. I began to think a lot about race and critiques. […]
Two weeks ago I was lucky enough to login to Nick Shepard’s presentation at the SPE Online Conference for the Mid-Atlantic and Southeast Chapters. The amazing Nick Shepard created multi camera studio set up in an AirBnB with borrowed equipment and available lighting, using his laptop, a cell phone and an old 5D Mark II […]
Teaching during Covid 19 provided us with plenty of Unknown Unknowns, to quote Donald Rumsfeld during the disaster that was the Iraq war. At this point we have have more Known Knowns and more awareness of what we don’t know than we did in the spring. Knowing what we don’t know gives us an opportunity […]
And it continues, you can’t make this shit up. This week. An insane debate with three old white guys, maskless in a room (albeit large) for 90 minutes fighting to talk like a really really bad Thanksgiving dinner, only they were discussing issues affecting the entire planet–and then one is positive for Covid. (Don’t get […]
I would love to hear from everyone about your teaching situation. How are you teaching: Totally online? synch, asynch, hybrid, flex plan, students take home equipment, meeting outside– how is everyone coping with the first few weeks. I’d love to know (and once I figure it out this will be a poll instead of a […]
It was so nice to see so many of you last week at FotoFika! I shared a number of resources which I’ll share below, ALL DATABASES ARE WORKS IN PROGRESS AND OPEN FOR ADDITIONS OR EDITS: https://fotofika.org/data/ CALENDAR: if you have events that are open to the public (lectures, etc), please invite [ fotofika2020 [at] gmail.com] – […]
NCAC Calls on Zoom to Defend Educators from Chinese Censorship […]