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 […]
Category: Curatorial
FotoFika w/ Rebecca Senf 9/15/21
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 […]
WE DID IT
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 – […]
David Campany – #ICPConcerned
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 […]
Kim Beil – Good Pictures
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 […]
FotoFika – Strange Fire Collective – 3/17/2021
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, […]
LAUNCH PARTY – FotoFika 2020 AllStar Trading Cards
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 […]
Ben Guest & Atget Studio- 12/2/20
WATCH NOW: https://vimeo.com/488528777 […]
FotoFika Dec 15th – Jonathan Molina-Garcia
For our final FotoFika of 2020, Assistant Professor, Jonathan Molina-Garcia from VCUarts will join us. Molina-Garcia was already using hybrid teaching/critique strategies in his classroom even before COVID 19 and has since incorporated innovative remote teaching and student focused engagement at both the grad and undergraduate level. Jonathan Molina-Garcia is an assistant professor of Photography […]
Ben Gest & Atget…..
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 […]