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 […]
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! 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]