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 […]
Category: Teaching
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 […]
Laurie Anderson last Week, Sarah Lewis This week, the Inclusive Classroom and Mental Health
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 […]
Links from our Studio Lighting Session on 1/20/21
www.ebradyrobinson.com/teaching-studio-lighting-online https://closapp.space/ Start https://miro.com/https://www.homedepot.com/p/R-Tech-2-in-x-4-ft-x-8-ft-R-7-7-Rigid-Foam-Insulation-310891/202532856 […]
No Studio / Studio Lighting
Join us TODAY when Geoff Delanoy, Lindsay Metivier, B. Proud, E. Brady Robinson, and Elena Volkova share their strategies for teaching studio lighting photography in our virtual classrooms. Similar to last week, we’ll use the meeting more as an open forum/workshop. Each of our guests will share their thoughts on teaching studio lighting virtually. See you Soon: JANUARY 20th, […]
Q&A from the Jan 6 Workshop
FotoFika Awesome people! I’ve consolidated down the Q&A from our workshop. I hope you’ll find it helpful. Thanks to everyone who contributed. Q: Fewer assignments and fewer prints does not seem unusual during this time. What strategies might you be employing to still have rigor in your classroom? Or can you? Does less […]
FotoFika Workshop January 6
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 […]
Ben Guest & Atget Studio- 12/2/20
WATCH NOW: https://vimeo.com/488528777 […]