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. […]
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Nick Shepard Loves “Concept Board”
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 […]
Unknown Unknowns
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 […]
truth continues to be stranger than fiction
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 […]
Virtual SPE Conferences
Last week the Northwest Chapter of the Society for Photographic Education hosted their annual conference online as part of a series of weekend conference programs by SPE chapters. This week the Midwest Chapter is hosting three days of programing starting tomorrow. All of the speakers are listed at: https://2020-spechapterconferences.heysummit.com/ The SPE membership drive runs through […]
I read faces–not eyes
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 […]
Mute is On: In a Pedagogical Crisis, The Answer is Sharing
Marni Shindleman leads the photography, Art X and AB in Interdisciplinary studies programs at UGA, which has one of the highest rates of Covid+ students in the country. They have mandated face to face classes. It is a crisis of all sorts. She told us: “I wake up some days in tears and […]
LINKS TO DATABASES – PHOTOGRAPHERS / CLASSROOMS / BOOKS
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] – […]
Welcome Back!
FotoFika is happy to be back online for Fall 2020. We are going to run every other week for the semester and are looking forward to seeing everyone again. So much has happened since we last met that we want to talk about. We also would like hear from you about how your semester is […]
July 1 Workshop Postponed–Google Sign Up For Future Workshops
FotoFika Workshops Update. Out of respect for the continuing momentum behind BLM political movement over the past month we have pulled back on FotoFika both in promoting the All Star Cards as well as the planned workshops. Today’s workshop was to focus on workers rights and unionization and it was the title Solidarity that made […]